Seth Rankins
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Graduate Research Assistant / Masters of Science in Range and Wildlife Management / Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
The influence of microhabitat on the phenotypic quality of white-tailed deer in South Texas
Seth Rankins is originally from Cusseta, Alabama. He received his B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Management from Auburn University in 2017. Before moving to Texas, Seth worked as a seasonal technician with a diversity of animals. Currently he resides in Kingsville, Texas where he is working on a M.S. degree under Dr. Randy DeYoung at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute. For his Master’s research he studying how localized nutrition drives size differences in white-tailed deer. In the future, Seth plans to pursue a Ph.D. enabling him to become a research scientist capable of addressing applied wildlife management issues. He stays busy with his research project and he is routinely found in the field collecting forage samples or in the laboratory running nutritional analysis. When Seth is not working on his own research, or learning new skills with his colleague’s research, he enjoys trying his luck hunting whatever happens to be in season on public hunting lands scattered throughout South Texas.
