Colter Chitwood
Associate Professor
Natural Resource Ecology & Management
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- Associate ProfessorNatural Resource Ecology & Management
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BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs
Colter Chitwood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Broadly, his research is focused on population ecology and predator-prey dynamics of big game species and wildlife habitat management in forested systems. He teaches Wildlife Management Applications and Planning and Wildlife Management for Game Species. He is active in The Wildlife Society (TWS), including serving as the Faculty Advisor for the OSU student chapter of TWS.
Research Interests:
Population ecology
Forest wildlife ecology and management
Predator-prey dynamics
Big game ecology and management
Habitat management
Research Interests:
Population ecology
Forest wildlife ecology and management
Predator-prey dynamics
Big game ecology and management
Habitat management
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS
- Associate ProfessorOklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology & Management, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States1 Jul 2026 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorOklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, United States1 Jan 2021 - present
- Assistant ProfessorOklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology & Management, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States1 Jan 2021 - 30 Jun 2026
- Research ScientistUniversity of Montana, Wildlife Biology Program, Missoula, United States1 Jan 2019 - 1 Dec 2020
- Postdoctoral Fellow and Boone & Crockett FellowUniversity of Missouri, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Columbia, United States1 Jul 2015 - 1 Dec 2018
- Postdoctoral Research ScholarNorth Carolina State University, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, Raleigh, United States1 Aug 2014 - 1 Jun 2015
DEGREES
- Ph.D., Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation BiologyNorth Carolina State University, United StatesAug 2010 - Aug 2014
- M.S., Fisheries and Wildlife SciencesNorth Carolina State University, United StatesAug 2007 - May 2010
- B.S., Environmental SciencesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United StatesAug 2001 - May 2005
FACULTY/STAFF OR STUDENT
- Faculty/Staff
CAMPUS
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
DEPARTMENT
- Natural Resource Ecology & Management