Introduction - Jake Brisnehan

 Hello!

    I am Jake Brisnehan, a RaHP VEC intern through Colorado State University. I work in Dr. Hemming-Schroeder's lab on a tick project that involves identifying correlations between tick presence and various forest understory characteristics. I am a senior at CSU with two majors: Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Statistics. I am mostly drawn to the statistical side of things and think some of the models involving wildlife are awesome! I hope to explore different paths to take our project on the modeling side this summer, and have enjoyed the field work collecting ticks in the Poudre Canyon.

    Outside of school/research, I like to play piano, draw animals as realistically as I can, play frisbee golf, and go fishing. I am from Broomfield, Colorado, but I have loved living in Fort Collins during my time at CSU. In the future, I hope to explore more national parks around the country, as well as cool places in Colorado. 

    I am excited to see what this summer brings and hope to learn a lot through collaboration with others and the work I will be doing! 

Here is a picture of my dog from back home!