Travis earned the Gil Pauley Travel Award for best graduate student presentation at the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 50th Anniversary Meeting, held Oct. 24, 2017, in Seattle, WA. Travis presented work he did in collaboration with Dr. Caren Goldberg (WSU School of the Environment), titled, “Genetically informed metapopulation viability analysis to understand effects of translocation on the last Northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) population.”