Travis Seaborn Research

Lab Members at North Dakota State University

Photo by John Clary

Dr. Travis Seaborn

Principle Investigator / Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resource Sciences
Current CV (updated 8/2023)​

I am a conservation biologist interested in how we impact fish and wildlife, including topics like land use and climate change.

I was an Idaho National Science Foundation EPSCoR Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Idaho. I was primarily in the lab of Dr. Chris Caudill, but I also worked closely with Lisette Waits and Paul Hohenlohe. I am part of the Idaho GEM3 project.

I completed my PhD candidate in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University in the labs of Dr. Erica Crespi and Dr. Caren Goldberg. 

​I can be reached for professional/research reasons at travis.seaborn at ndsu dot edu. I can also be found on ResearchGate, Instagram, and Twitter.

Postdocs and Research Specialists

Dr. Meggan Alston
Research Specialist
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I am an ecologist and evolutionary biologist investigating wildlife responses to anthropogenic challenges. My background is in population genetics and molecular ecology, and I am interested in interdisciplinary research that can inform wildlife management decisions and conservation efforts. Previously, I completed my PhD in Biology at the University of North Carolina in the labs of Dr. Chris Willett and Dr. Joel Kingsolver where I studied the impacts of thermal stress in caterpillars using genomics, gene expression, and laboratory experiments.

Graduate Students

​Rhiannon Hall
MS Graduate Student
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Rhiannon is working on comparative landscape genomics of bumble bees in North Dakota while doing behavioral ecology work at the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center. She is housed within the School of Natural Resource Sciences. She did her undergraduate at University of Kentucky.
Alec Christensen
MS Graduate Student
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Alec is working on the coupled dynamics of management, hunting, relatedness, and chronic wasting disease. He is part of the Environmental and Conservation Sciences program with the NDSU Graduate School. He did his undergraduate work at Montana State University.

Undergraduates: Hopefully Coming Soon!