Skip to main content     Dr. Sarah Rebecah Fritts
 - Associate Professor  at Biology, College of Science & Engineering
     Service Activities
 Ongoing
 - Chair, Search Committee Tenure Track Wildlife Biology Professor.
August 2025 - Present.
 
- Director, Wildlife Ecology Program.
January 2024 - Present.
 
- Officer, Renewable Energy Working Group: The Wildlife Society.
November 2023 - Present.
 
- Chair, Tracking Committee: Leila Siciliano-Martina.
October 2023 - Present.
 
- Reviewer / Referee, Renewable Energy and Wildlife Institute.
2022 - Present.
 
- Reviewer / Referee, National Geographic.
November 2022 - Present.
 
- Co-Chair, Texas State Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
January 2022 - Present.
 
- Member, Certification Review Board: The Wildlife Society.
November 2019 - Present.
 
- Reviewer / Referee, Ecosphere.
2017 - Present.
 
- Peer Review, PLOS ONE.
2016 - Present.
 
- Peer Review, Prairie Naturalist.
2015 - Present.
 
- Peer Review, Forest Ecology and Management.
2014 - Present.
 
- Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
2010 - Present.
 
- American Society of Mammologists.
2010 - Present.
 
- The Wildlife Society - Certified Wildlife Biologist, 2015 Leadership Institute Fellow.
2003 - Present.
 
2025
 - Member, Search Committee Wildlife Ecology Assistant Professor.
August 2024 - April 2025.
 
2024
 - Member, Search Committee: Microbial Ecology position.
October 2023 - 2024.
 
- Member, Chair search committee (2nd time).
August 2024 - December 2024.
 
- Member, Search Committee: Department of Biology Chair position.
September 2023 - December 2024.
 
2023
 - Member, Strategic Planning Committee.
2022 - 2023.
 
- Participant, Honors Research Conference panel chair.
November 2023 - December 2023.
 
- Board Member, The Wildlife Society.
October 2020 - October 2023.
 
2022
 - Member, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee.
September 2019 - 2022.
 
- Co-Chair, William E Norris Jr. Scholarship.
August 2018 - 2022.
 
- Co-Chair, John T. Baccus Outstanding Achievement Award.
August 2018 - 2022.
 
- Coordinator / Organizer, Terrestrial Issues in Renewable Energy Conservation.
May 2022 - November 2022.
 
- Member, Russell and Ruth Strandtmass Field Biology Fund Scholarship.
March 2022.
 
- Member, Lifetime Membership Award Selection Committee for Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
September 2021 - March 2022.
 
- Other, STEP Program (New Faculty).
February 2022.
 
- Board Member, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
February 2021 - February 2022.
 
- Reviewer / Referee, Bat Conservation International.
December 2021 - January 2022.
 
2020
 - Chair, Bat Association at Texas State.
August 2018 - 2020.
 
2019
 - Faculty Representative, Texas State University Ornithological Society.
September 2017 - 2019.
 
2018
 - Reviewer / Referee, Southwestern Association of Naturalists.
February 2018 - May 2018.
 
- Reviewer / Referee, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
January 2018 - February 2018.
 
2017
 - Member, Texas Tech Climate Science Center.
2015 - 2017.
 
- Participant, Texas Tech Annual Biological Sciences Symposium Oral Presentation Judge.
April 2017 - May 2017.
 
2015
 - Expert Panelist and Peer Reviewer, Department of Energy Billion Ton Report, Volume 2.
2015.
 
- Peer Review, Northeastern Naturalist.
2015.
 
2014
 - Department of Interior Southeast Climate Science Center.
2012 - 2014.
 
- Department of Interior South Central Climate Science Center.
2012 - 2014.