Dr. Sarah Rebecah Fritts

  • Associate Professor at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Search Committee Wildlife Ecology Assistant Professor. August 2024 - Present.
  • Director, Wildlife Ecology Program. January 2024 - Present.
  • Participant, Honors Research Conference panel chair. November 2023 - Present.
  • Officer, Renewable Energy Working Group: The Wildlife Society. November 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Search Committee: Microbial Ecology position. October 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.
  • Participant, Texas Tech Annual Biological Sciences Symposium Oral Presentation Judge. April 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.

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.
  • 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.

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.