Sustainability Leadership Fellowship Cohort: 2014-2015

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Research Summary: Ashley is a Certified Associate Wildlife Biologist who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology. Her main career interest is integrating social and biological science to investigate complex ecological questions. Originally from Northwest Ohio, she became interested in pursuing an environmental career after reading Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and participating in habitat restoration projects in high school. Over the years she has studied a wide-variety of wildlife from snakes in Minnesota and Costa Rica to domestic cats in Boulder, Colorado.