Salary: $16,500. Start Date: 08/01/2015. Description: Project title: Fine-scale seasonal movements of eastern wild turkeys in Mississippi. One M.S. Research assistantship is available within the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. Thesis research project is aimed to: 1) understand fine-scale movements of eastern wild turkeys in response to spatiotemporal variation in resources and weather in multiple sites across Mississippi using GPS telemetry; and 2) assess the effects of genetic relatedness and social affinity on the movements of wild turkeys using radio telemetry and microsatellite analysis in central Mississippi. The student will collect GPS relocati