It is my pleasure to announce that Julián García Walther, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Conservation, will defend his dissertation entitled, "The Effects of Sea Level Rise on the Habitat of Coastal Waterbirds in Northwest Mexico," on Friday, April 18 at 2:30 pm in Holdsworth 105.
Exam Committee: Nathan Senner (Chair), Michelle Staudinger, and Jon Woodruf
If you are interested in reading about Julian's work, he has published two of his dissertation chapters, with a third available as a pre-print on Research Square:
García-Walther, J., J.A. Johnson, and N.R. Senner. The effects of sea level rise on the future habitat availability of a threatened shorebird in Northwest Mexico. Ornithological Applications 126: duae023.
García-Walther, J., D. Portillo-Zavala, A. Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu, and N.R. Senner. Throwing a lifeline: floating seagrass rafts as natural alternative roosting habitat for shorebirds. Ecology 104: e4139.
Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu, A., J. García-Walther, L. Ortiz Serrato, J. Vargas Vega, and N.R. Senner. The impact of beachface morphology on habitat suitability and breeding success of least terns and snowy plovers. (Read on Research Square.)