Graduate Writing and Statistics Tutors

Natalie Pax is a graduate student pursuing a dual degree between the Master in Environmental Management program with a focus
on Sustainable and Resilient Communities and the Master of Behavioral Science in Rural Community Health program.

Areas of Expertise:

• Technical writing (grant writing and reporting, resume, cover letters, journalistic, etc.)
• Creative writing (philosophical logic, creative non-fiction, and poetry)

Hailey Robe is a second-year graduate student in the EMPLOYS program (Master in Ecology + Master in Environmental Management) with a wide range of interests in ecology and wildlife. She enjoys learning about new topics in environmental science, strategies for science communication, and ways to improve her own writing.

Areas of Expertise:

• Academic writing (papers, reports, grants, and proposals)
• Creative communications (informal blogs, storymaps, posters,
  and more)

Dalton Robberson is a second-year graduate student pursuing both a MEM and MSE degree through the EMPLOYS program, and has wide interests in fire and forest ecology. Dalton has a background in tutoring students of all backgrounds in their writing journeys and loves to help individuals work towards their writing and educational goals.

Areas of Expertise:

• Scientific writing, lab reporting, and other types of formal academic papers
• Open to working with students on any type of writing assignment!

Bradley Sowder is a graduate student pursuing a dual degree between the Master of Science in Ecology program and the Master of Environmental Management program at Western. His research in Ecology focuses on modeling landscape dynamics using remotely sensed data, and his work in MEM centers on vegetation mapping and monitoring of high alpine fens.

Areas of Expertise:

• Spatial analysis in R
• Data visualization
• Ecological modeling
• Statistical analysis
• Remote sensing applications

Zane Siebeneck is a first-year graduate student in the Master of Science in Ecology program at Western. He holds a biology degree from Truman State University, where he conducted research on species composition in small- to medium-sized mammals. In his master’s work, he hopes to continue studying wildlife and is currently exploring an occupancy modeling project focused on bats.

Areas of Expertise:

• Species composition studies
• Occupancy modeling
• Statistical analysis
• Ecological data interpretation
• Field research techniques