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Dr. Sarah Rebecah Fritts

  • Associate Professor - Biology

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

North Carolina State University, 2014

Master's Degree

MS in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2008

Bachelor's Degree

BSFR in Wildlife

University of Georgia, 2003

  • Queiroz de Farias, Mylene Christine, Fritts, Sarah Rebecah, Tesic, Jelena. 2025 ExpandAI Catalyst Award: Advancing the Automation of Bat Monitoring for Sustainable Wind Energy Development, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS), Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: December 2, 2024, Funded: 2025 - Present). Grant.
  • Fritts, Sarah Rebecah (Principal). Confirming presence of Perimyotis subflavus across potential expanded range in west Texas, Texas Comptroller, State, $278356. (Submitted: December 2024, Funded: April 2025 - September 2028). Grant.
  • Waltson, Leroy (Principal), Hamada, Yuki (Co-Principal), Fritts, Sarah Rebecah (Co-Principal). A Holistic Study of Avian-Solar Interactions at Photovoltaic Solar Energy Facilities in Multiple U.S. Regions, Department of Energy, Federal, $2000000. (Funded: October 2024 - December 2026). Grant.
  • Fritts, Sarah Rebecah (Principal). Occupancy and distribution of summer bats in Texas, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, State, $499988. (Funded: November 2019 - December 2024). Grant.
  • Fritts, Sarah Rebecah (Principal), Percent Contribution: %65, Straw, Bethany (Co-Principal), Weaver, Sara (Co-Principal), Hein, Cris (Co-Principal), Norstrand, Tom. Evaluating deterrent stimuli for increasing species-specic effectiveness of an advanced ultrasonic acoustic deterrent, National Renewable Energy Lab/Department of Energy, Federal, $489532. (Funded: October 2019 - January 2022). Grant.
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  • Stamps, B., Guest, E., Weaver, S., Hein, C., Hale, A., & Fritts, S. R. (2026). Species-specific acoustic responses by bats to ultrasonic stimuli used for reducing bat-wind turbine interactions. PeerJ. https://doi.org/https://peerj.com/articles/21231
  • Weaver, S., Hale, A., Nelson, D., Fritts, S. R., Katzner, T., Chipps, A., … Williams, D. (2025). Spatiotemporal patterns in sex ratios of bat fatalities at wind energy facilities in the United States. Biological Conservation, 61(e03672). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03672
  • Fritts, S. R., Guest, E. E., Hale, A. M., Weaver, S. P., Morton, B. P., & Hein, C. D. (2024). Experimental trials of species-specific bat flight responses to an ultrasonic deterrent. PeerJ, 11, e16718. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16718
  • Rogers, J. A., Parker, M. C., & Fritts, S. R. (2023). Evening bats captured in a managed wildlife refuge used trees in a human-dominated landscape as maternity roosts. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.
  • Lopez, S. G., Aspbury, A., Fritts, S. R., Tidwell, T. L. R., & Bonner, T. H. (2023). Long-term patterns in inland fish kills associated with cold-shock and winter stress: a regional case study from Texas. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(3), 472–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15435
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow, The Wildlife Society. October 2026 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Seminar Award, Texas State University. August 2021 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award, College of Science and Engineering. July 2021 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Valero Award for Excellence. June 2021 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. May 2020 - Present
  1. Other

    Doctoral Marshal for Commencement

  2. Officer

    Renewable Energy Working Group of The Wildlife Society

  3. Chair

    Search Committee Tenure Track Wildlife Biology Professor

  4. Chair

    Tracking Committee: Leila Siciliano-Martina

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Renewable Energy and Wildlife Institute

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    National Geographic

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