Chris Floyd

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2003

• B.S. Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1992

RESEARCH

• Postdoctoral research: Systematics of the island spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis amphialus) on the Channel Islands

• Dissertation: Ecological genetics of dispersal and mating system in populations of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

• Other research: 

  • Conservation biology of threatened Mexican fishing bats (Myotis vivesi): using microsatellites to measure gene flow among islands

  • Using microsatellites to determine the relationship between demographic structure, relatedness, and dispersal in an assemblage of golden-mantled ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis) in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

  • Investigating the ecological relationships among primary and secondary cavity nesting birds in aspen (Populus tremuloides) woodlands at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado

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Random pictures from the field:

• Chris Floyd in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

• Gothic road, near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL), Gothic, Colorado

• Gothic Mountain, 12,500 ft elevation (above RMBL)

• Chris Floyd and (live!) western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) at the Alpine Ranch in Nevada

• Yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) in live trap, in the Toiyabe Range, NV

• RMBL Dining Hall on June 1, 1991 (Gothic, CO)

• Smoky Valley, between the Toiyabe and Toquima Ranges, NV

• Marmot habitat near North Shoshone Peak, in Shoshone Range, NV

• Pinyon-pine and juniper near Goshute Canyon in Cherry Creek Range, NV

• Desatoya Range, NV

• Black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), Big Bend National Park, TX

• Upper East River Valley, Gothic, CO

• Western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans), Toiyabe Range, NV