What have we been up to?

Spring 2025
  • Katie Pennartz (PhD) and Austin Ibarra (MS) join the lab.
  • Dr. Heffelfinger, Bailey, and Celine attend the last adult pronghorn helicopter capture for the Oklahoma pronghorn project.
  • The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the second adult mule deer captures for the Oklahoma mule deer project.
  • The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the inaugural CWD project captures by catching mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk in the Texas Panhandle and mule deer in the Trans-Pecos.
Fall 2024
  • Bailey, Ashlyn, Miranda, and Calvin attend The Wildlife Society conference in Baltimore, Maryland.​
  • Bailey, Ashlyn, Miranda, and Calvin assist TPWD with desert bighorn sheep translocation efforts.
  • Miranda kicks off her dissertation field work.
Summer 2024
  • The North Texas Research Program officially opens in Lubbock.
  • Bailey Kleeberg, Ashlyn Halseth-Ellis (PhD), and Miranda Hopper (PhD) join the lab.
  • Celine has a very successful pronghorn fawning season in Oklahoma.
  • The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the TPWD Pronghorn & Mule Deer Technical Meeting.
Spring 2024
  • Calvin starts his PhD.
  • Celine Rickels (MS) joins the lab.
2023
  • Calvin successfully defends his MS thesis. Congratulations!
  • Calvin wins TAMUK Outstanding Range & Wildlife Science Graduate Student.
  • Calvin Ellis (MS) is awarded the 2023 Boone & Crockett Fellow Outstanding Achievement Award.

Heffelfinger Research Team

North Texas Research Program
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Stationed in Lubbock, TX
All images of wildlife were collected under appropriate research and animal handling permits.