LAB MEMBERS
Eric T. Hileman, Principle Investigator
email: eric.hileman(at)mail.wvu.edu
I am an assistant professor in the Wildlife and Fisheries Resources program at West Virginia University and the quantitative ecologist for the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Species Survival Plan®. Before my current appointment, I was an assistant research professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. Prior to this, I was a Mendenhall research fellow at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center working in the Brown Treesnake Laboratory in Guam, an adjunct graduate faculty at Grand Valley State University, and a postdoctoral fellow at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
Matthew Klein, M.S. Student
Matthew received his BS in Fisheries and Wildlife from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As an undergraduate student, Matthew supported work on the spatial and behavioral ecology of prairie rattlesnakes in western Nebraska. After graduating, he worked as a conservation biologist for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, mostly working with waterfowl and massasauga rattlesnakes. Matthew is broadly interested in ecological responses to change in herpetofauna, especially with at-risk species. As a MS student at WVU, Matthew will investigate the effects of climate change, inbreeding depression, and snake fungal disease on eastern massasauga rattlesnake population dynamics and population viability.
Past Lab Members
James N. Helferich, M.S.
Of changing climate and habitat: range-wide individual growth and local patterns of phenology and landscape use in a threatened pit-viper.
