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I am a California native, but after high
school moved to North Carolina. I took a
few years off from school and worked in
retail before discovering the path that would enable me to apply my love for
wildlife to a potential career. I earned
an Associate's in Science degree from Wake Technical Community College in
Raleigh, NC before transferring to Humboldt State University in 2006. Shortly thereafter, I began working for both
Dr. Colwell's Shorebird Ecology Lab and Mad River Biologists monitoring the
local population of Western Snowy Plovers during both the breeding and
wintering seasons. After spending
several seasons as an undergrad noting the depredation of plover eggs and
chicks by ravens and crows, I shifted my focus as a grad student from plovers
to corvids. My primary interests and
goals are wildlife management. My study
will test the effectiveness of effigies, a nonlethal predator control method, on
corvid behavior in plover breeding habitat.
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