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A Little About Me

When I'm not outside playing in the dirt, I can usually be found teaching, or working with kids during a one if many conservation-ecology based outreach programs I have created. I am a current Graduate student in the Conservation -Ecology & Sustainable Development Program at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, where my research focuses on the changes occurring to the plant-prey interactions of carnivorous plants in mountain bogs due to global change. As a former public affairs specialist for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, communication and outreach for the purpose of furthering conservation of rare species and natural resources has always been a particular passion of mine. After graduation I hope to continue my research, possibly working with pitcherplants such as the much larger species, Nepenthes found in Central and South America. A lifelong Girl Scout, my motto is to leave the planet better than I found it. And now that in addition to working with kids through teaching and outreach programs, I am also a mom to three budding young scientists, I may be able to do just that.
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