Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

Research Scientist and Assistant Professor

Andrea is originally from southeastern Wisconsin and received a Bachelor's degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1995).  She completed a Master's degree at the University of Florida, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (1999).  Her Master's research examined the effects of various restoration treatments on reptiles and amphibians in longleaf pine sandhills on the panhandle of Florida.  She worked for The Nature Conservancy in northwest Florida for two years before beginning a Ph.D. program in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Arizona (2007).  For her dissertation research, she quantified the effects of a nonnative grass (Lehmann lovegrass, Eragrostis lehmanniana) and prescribed fire on small mammal and invertebrate communities in semidesert grasslands.  Andrea also earned a minor in Statistics.  She lectured in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona and held a post-doctoral research position at Colorado State University and the University of Arizona before joining the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute in 2009.  Her primary interests include examining the effects of human activities on wildlife populations.  She also serves as the statistical consultant for CKWRI.