Angela Patrick

Angela Patrick is originally from Durango, Colorado, where she grew up hiking, camping, and enjoying the outdoors. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Fort Lewis College in 2018, where she was also a three-sport collegiate athlete. Initially on a pre-vet track, her interests shifted to wildlife research after two summers interning at Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Arizona.
She began graduate school at West Texas A&M and transferred to Texas Tech University in 2020, completing her M.S. in 2023 with research on prion disease susceptibility and BVDV risk in pronghorn and mule deer. Now pursuing her Ph.D. at Texas Tech, Angela is developing an agent-based model and network model to examine how pneumonia-related pathogens spread among and between bighorn sheep and aoudad in the Trans-Pecos region. Her work integrates spatial data, movement ecology, and infection tracing to explore how landscape use, species interactions, and group structure influence transmission risk and inform management strategies for desert bighorn conservation.
Angela serves as the TA for NRM 3407 (Wildlife Techniques), has taught NRM 1401, and manages the department’s social media. Outside of work, she enjoys hunting, fishing, and camping with her husband and their dog, Calypso.