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Howard Hunt

Associate Professor

School of Biological Sciences

Carson Taylor Hall

Room 201

Phone (318) 257-4573

Fax (318) 257-4574

E-Mail Hhunt @latech.edu

 

Degrees and degree granting institutions:

Postdoctorate, 1989, Department of Zoology, University of Arkansas

Ph.D. 1988, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A & M University

M.S. 1979, Wildlife Management, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.

B.S. 1977, Natural Resource Management, Humbolt State University, CA.

B.S. 1976, Wildlife Management, Humbolt State University, CA.

 

Courses taught:

Ecology, Wildlife Techniques,

Ornithology, Environmental Science,

Mammalogy

 

Research Interest:

Arthropod response to oil spills

Avian habitat associations

 

Selected Publications:

Jones, C., and H.Hunt, 1996. Red-cockaded Woodpecker Habitat Use on the D’Arbonne National

Wildlife Refuge. Journal of Field Ornithology 67:511-518

Chavez-Ramiers, F., H.Hunt, R. Slack, and T. Stehn. 1995. Ecological correlates of whooping crane

use of fire-treated upland habitats. Conservation Biology 10:217-223.

Hunt, H. 1991. Winter Habitat use by northern bobwhite in western Arkansas. 1991. Proc. Louisiana

Acad. Sci. 54:37-45

Hunt, H., and R.D. Slack, 198. Winter diets of whooping and sandhill cranes in South Texas. Journal of

Wildlife Management. 53:1150-1154

Hunt, H., and R.D. Slack. 1986 Proceedings 1985 Crane Workshop:

-Activity patterns of whooping cranes of the Arkansas National Wildlife

Refuge.

-Winter foods of the whooping cranes based on stomach content analysis.

-Whooping crane chick mortality during the winter of 1982-83.

Selected Grants:

Oil Spills R & D Program-arthropod index to oil spill severity ($85,400. 5/00-5-02)

U.S. Army-timber harvest impacts on neotropical songbirds ($61,775. 4/93-3/97)

U.S. Fish &Wildlife Service-waterfowl use of agricultural habitats ($49,000.

9/91-6/94)

U.S. Forest Service-songbird use of bottomland forest ($38,000. 3/91-9/93)