Dr. Grace Schuster joined the Applied Wildlife Ecology and Spatial Movement (AWESM) Lab in spring 2020 as an undergraduate researcher. She has worked on a variety of conservation research including work with the Prairie Corridor Project and Human Dimensions lab at UNL. She transitioned into a PhD position in the AWESM lab in fall 2021, where her research focused on evaluating multi-species avian occupancy in potential bioenergy grasslands near North Platte, Nebraska. After graduating with her PhD, Grace moved into a postdoc position with the lab in 2025.