Thesis Watch: Akashia Martinez, Biological Sciences

Akashia Martinez successfully defended her Biological Sciences M.S. thesis titled "Kit-rearing in the far north: Movement behavior and activity patterns of female Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) during the denning season." Her study is part of the Northwest Boreal Forest Lynx Project, which combines efforts here at UAF with research from the National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife, with the overall goal of providing a better understanding of the relationship between two important species, Canada lynx and their favorite prey, snowshoe hares. Akashia’s impressively thorough work movement behavior and activity pattern of denning mothers provides an important piece of the lynx-research puzzle.