Sarah Lucht
Research Assistant Professor
sarah.lucht@ag.tamu.edu (936) 676-8660Sarah joined Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute in March 2015 as a student technician and is currently a Research Assistant Professor supporting the military lands sustainability and species conservation programs. Her work focuses on implementing sustainable and innovative management strategies for an array of plant and animal species and instructing several collegiate botany/plant identification courses. Her research primarily focuses on military lands management in the southwestern United States and floral/faunal ecological interactions. Her work has included projects on a variety of taxa from the White Sands Pupfish and the Lesser Prairie Chicken to invasive vegetation species control and community-level plant species interactions.
She received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. in Ecosystem Science and Management from Texas A&M in 2024.
Sarah was raised in Lufkin, Texas, where her love for the outdoors developed at a young age. During her free time, Sarah enjoys hunting, fishing, running, and spending time with her husband and 3 dogs.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Rapid vertebrate speciation via isolation, bottlenecks, and drift
May 2024
Black, A.N., E.J. Heenkenda, S. Mathur, J.R. Willoughby, B.L. Pierce, S.J. Turner, D. Rizzuto, J.A. DeWoody. 2024. Rapid vertebrate speciation via isolation, bottlenecks, and drift. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121:e2320040121.