People

Dr. Katie Haase, PhD, Associate Professor

Dr. Haase received her B.S. in Wildlife from Unity College in Maine, her M.S. in Conservation Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Ecology/Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida. Dr. Haase did her post-doctoral research at Montana State University studying the energetics of white-nose syndrome in western bat species. She currently resides on the Board of Directors of the North American Society for Bat Research and is the faculty advisor of the APSU Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Outside of research and teaching, Dr. Haase enjoys backpacking, hiking, kayaking, ice cream, R code, and awkward mammals.

CV - last updated 4/2026

Current Graduate Students

Gabrielle Tomboc

Gabrielle received her BS in Biology at Austin Peay State University in May 2025 and is now a graduate student in the Haase lab. Her research is focused on stress response of bats to handling and bat bag temperatures. She is also determining if bat bags differ in temperature conductance.

Macee Roberts

Macee received her BS in Biology at Austin Peay State University in May 2025 and is now a graduate student in the Haase lab. Her research is focused on forage site selection of the endangered gray bat (Myostis grisescens) on Fort Campbell Army Base.

Logan Young

Logan received his BS in Criminal Justice with a minor in Biology from Austin Peay State University in May 2025. His MS research is quantifying growth of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, in response to varying humidity levels.

Estie Holman

Estie received her BS in Biology from Cumberland University in 2026. Her MS research is focusing on bat conservation on Fort Campbell.

CUrrent Lab Technicians

James Watts

James graduated with his B.S. in Biology from APSU in 2026. He has worked on multiple projects in the lab, including the bat project and small mammal trapping.

Anna Chess

Anna is currently a MS student in the Woltmann Bird Lab at APSU. She has volunteered and now works for the Fort Campbell Bat Project, lending her experience mist-netting birds to bats!

Caroline Muscat

Caroline is current a MS student in the Johansen Fish Lab at APSU. She is currently working on the Fort Campbell Bat Project while studying conservation genetics of fishes in the Southeast.

Manav Patel

Manav is an undergraduate at Austin Peay State University. He is earning a degree in Agriculture and is currently working on small mammal trapping.

Our Volunteers:

From left to right: Julia Gambill, Iris Jonnalagadda, Eli Harrison, Dr. Haase, Manav Patel, James Watts, Melanie Freeman, Maranda Halstead, Mia Burnett, Tristian Saliner, Kamaya Holloway, L. Martin, Stacy Murphy, and Kaia Raines-Ownby