Mentoring

Mentoring is critical form of teaching that I find highly rewarding.  Research and projects introduce students to the scientific process and how to apply that scientific knowledge to engage the community and influence management and policy. This experience is essential to training and preparing students for a career after graduation.  It also allows students to apply and build on concepts they have learned in the classroom. 

Are you a student at Southwestern University?
​Interested in research? Want to get experience collecting data in the field and in the lab? I am looking for undergraduates to work with me this summer (2021) on a variety of projects in Texas, Colorado and Siberia. Send me an email at demarcoj@southwestern.edu and let's chat.

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Western Colorado University
​Master of Science in Ecology Students

Jace Cussins
Hi, I am a M.S. in Ecology student at Western Colorado University. I graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2017 with a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and Management and a concurrent degree in Environment and Natural Resources. My Master's project focuses on soil moisture and other ecosystem processes in restored wetlands and meadows around the Gunnison Valley. I am interested in how restoration can benefit ecosystems.

Undergraduate Students

Western Colorado University Student Alumni 

2021
Rhyan Lowrey
Alexandra "Alex" VanTill
Brittany Phelan
Heather Reineking
2020
Brady Akins
Alexia Cooper
Haley Horvat
Scott LaRocca
2019
​Elizabeth Hartson
​Aaron Lewis
Michael Schuster
2018
Jodi Elam
​Cameron Ruyle