Comanche-Faith Deer Research Program Coordinator

Kim grew up in upstate NY and Bethesda, MD.  She received her B.S. from Virginia Tech in 1994. Following graduation, she completed a short internship with a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, VA, where she worked with small mammals and white-tailed deer.  She studied female reproduction and cub survival in Virginia’s hunted population of black bears for her Master’s degree at Virginia Tech (2000).  She worked with quail and black bears in Virginia while working for Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.  She and her husband operated a private pond management and wildlife consulting business in Virginia where she offered wildlife consulting and nuisance wildlife removal services.  As an employee of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, she worked with their growing population of reintroduced elk and helped deal with nuisance black bears.  She joined Texas A&M-Kingsville CKWRI as Director of the Comanche-Faith Deer Research Program in March 2009.  She has interests in large mammal ecology, predator-prey relationships, and nuisance wildlife-human interactions.   She is married with 3 daughters and enjoys family, photography, genealogy, art, and scrapbooking.