My name is Levi Heffelfinger, and I am the Director of the North Texas Research Program and an Assistant Professor at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. I also serve on the TWS Early Career Professional Working Group board. I grew up in southern Arizona and earned degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of Nevada, Reno, where I studied mule deer spatial ecology and demographics in the Mojave National Preserve. I completed my Ph.D. at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute as the Boone & Crockett Fellow in Ungulate Research, focusing on how forage variability influences mule deer movement and performance, as well as the effects of early-life nutrition on white-tailed deer development. My current research centers on nutritional ecology and linking population processes to landscape variability across arid regions of the southwestern United States and southern Great Plains. I am based in Lubbock, Texas, and enjoy camping, hiking, wildlife photography, fishing and hunting.
