Ethan Dittmer, a doctoral candidate in natural resource sciences, was quoted in a Jan. 14 Outdoor Life article on the debate surrounding hot cropping — flooding standing crops to create food and shelter for ducks, and prime spots for duck hunters. Dittmer emphasized that mallards are hardy ducks that require severe cold-weather events to push them south. “I don’t see there being considerable evidence that corn is short-stopping ducks,” he said. “The vast majority of academic research shows, for mallards, it’s weather.”
Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the university’s National Drought Mitigation Center, was interviewed for a Jan. 9 CBS News story on California being drought-free for the first time in 25 years. “This is the first time we have seen that since December of 2000,” he said. “It’s been quite a while since there’s been no abnormally dry conditions or worse being depicted in the state.”
John Carroll, a professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management , was quoted in “A Strange Daytime Sighting Reveals Rare Flying Squirrels Quietly Moving Into Nebraska” story in the AZ Animal Encyclopedia on March 20, 2026. Josh Palik's, a fisheries and wildlife major, photos are featured in the story.