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Jason Riddle

Experience and Interests

Teaching Experience

  • Assistant, Associate, and now Full Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (2009-Present)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant and Preparing the Professoriate Participant, North Carolina State University (various semesters 2003-2006)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Appalachian State University (1999-2002)

Research Interests

  • Upland Game Birds
  • Avian Ecology and Conservation
  • Statistics

Professional Experience

  • Gerald and Helen Stephens Professor of Wildlife (2017-2024)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, North Carolina State University (2007-2009)
  • Hoffman Forest Graduate Fellow, North Carolina State University (2003-2006)
  • Biological Field Technician and Wilderness Ranger, US Forest Service (2002)

Involvement

Professional Memberships

  • Representative to Council, North Central Section of The Wildlife Society (2022-2025)
  • President (3-year cycle of president-elect, president, and past-president), North Central Section of The Wildlife Society (2020 – 2023)
  • President (3-year cycle of president-elect, president, and past-president), Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society (2015-2018 with an additional stint as interim past-president 2019-2020)
  • Various Committee Memberships, Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society (2017 – Present)
  • General Member and Biometrics Working Group Member, The Wildlife Society (2006 – Present)

Fun Facts

Last book you read?

Saint Francis of Assisi

What do you enjoy most about teaching?

Watching a student discover

Jason Riddle
Douglas R. Stephens Chair in Wildlife and Extension Wildlife Specialist
Wisconsin Center for Wildlife

Office:
265 Trainer Natural Resources
Phone:
715-346-3224

Education

Ph.D. Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
North Carolina State University

M.S. Biology
Appalachian State University

B.S. Biology
The College of William & Mary