Bridger M Creel
Bridger is a 5th year PhD candidate studying the effects of mine-waste contamination on riparian songbirds in the Upper Clark Fork River Superfund site. They investigate how songbird diet, physiology and reproductive success change in sites impaired by mining contamination and how metals move through the riparian food web. Their work combines the fields of ecophysiology, food web ecology and ecotoxicology to understand the complex interplay of prey depletion and metal exposure affecting songbirds in mining-impaired habitats.
Bridger is advised by Dr. Creagh Breuner and Dr. Ben Colman and works in close collaboration with the University of Montana Bird Ecology Lab.
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