Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

Comanche-Faith Deer Research Program Coordinator

Kim grew up in upstate NY and Bethesda, MD.  She began her wildlife studies at Virginia Tech in 1990, conducted research on captive black bears as an undergraduate, and completed her B.S. in 1994.  Shortly after graduation, she interned at the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, VA, where she worked with small mammals and white-tailed deer.  In 2000, Kim received her Master’s degree from Virginia Tech; her thesis focused on female reproduction and cub survival in Virginia’s hunted population of black bears.  In between her M.S. fieldwork and her defense, she worked for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries with quail and black bears.  In 2001, she and her husband jointly operated Wildlife Oasis, LLC, a private pond and wildlife management business in Virginia specializing in consulting and nuisance wildlife removal services.  In 2007, Kim began working for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources with their growing population of reintroduced elk, and assisted with elk and black bear nuisance issues.  She joined Texas A&M University-Kingsville CKWRI as Director of the Comanche-Faith Deer Research Program in March 2009.  Kim has interests in large mammal ecology, predator-prey relationships, and nuisance wildlife-human interactions.  She and her husband, Rick, and their daughters Allie, Hannah, and Audrey, now live in Eagle Pass.  She enjoys reading, photography, genealogy, art, and scrapbooking.