Rate My Professor Chris Yahnke

Yahnke's research specializations encompass community ecology of bats and small mammals, systematics and ecology of neotropical mammals, population ecology of small mammals and hantavirus, molecular techniques for ancient DNA, museum science, and science education. Notable publications include 'Genetic and demographic analysis of invasive Peromyscus leucopus in the northern Great Lakes region' (Journal of Mammalogy, 2019, with Moscarella et al.); 'Dead mice can grow – variation of standard external mammal measurements from live and three postmortem body states' (Journal of Mammalogy, 2015, with Stevens et al.); 'The end of the Pleistocene: Elk-moose and caribou in Wisconsin' (Journal of Mammalogy, 2011, with Long); 'Habitat use and natural history of small mammals in the central Paraguayan Chaco' (Mastozoologia Neotropical, 2006); and 'Patterns of infection with Laguna Negra virus in wild populations of Calomys laucha in the central Paraguayan chaco' (American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2001, with Meserve et al.). He teaches courses such as Field Ecology of Hawaii, Carnivore Ecology, Mammalogy, and Conservation Biology. Yahnke serves on the Program Review Committee (2016-present), was UWSP faculty representative on the UW-System Women and Science Program Board (2007-2015), and participates in Bioblitz events. In 2017, he received the Justus F. and Barbara J. Paul Faculty Award.