Wildlife Ecologist
I am a research associate with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program. My research interests are as varied as the taxa and communities – plant and animal – that I have worked with throughout my career. I have studied the biology and ecology of creatures large and small: the reintroduced federally endangered American burying beetle in Missouri, cave hibernating bats in Mississippi, and the declining Shiras moose population in Wyoming, to name just a few. Research interests include: bioacoustics as a monitoring tool, process-based low-tech restoration techniques (e.g., beaver dam analogs), ungulate forage quality analysis as a tool for conservation planning at landscape scales, the impacts of white nose syndrome on bat populations, global observation research initiative in alpine (GLORIA).
Mom
I am the proud mom of a feral 4-year old, Sylvia Wren. “Balancing” a field science-based career and family life can be difficult to say the least. Especially because my husband, Edward Henry (CSU anthropology professor) is also in a field-based discipline, archaeology. My daughter and her boundless sense of wonder inspires me every day to share my love of nature and continue studying and working to protect our planet’s wildlife and wild places.
