Melanie R. Boudreau

Title: Postdoctoral Associate
Email: mel.r.boudreau@gmail.com

Dr. Melanie Boudreau is an Assistant Research Professor of Conservation Biology and Geospatial Science in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State. Her interests broadly focus on using spatial information to help inform management actions. Her interests include animal movement, species distributions, human-wildlife conflict, applied conservation biology, and long-term ecological research. She teaches undergraduate courses in conservation biology and problem solving and a graduate course in research methods.

Born and raised in New Brunswick, Canada, Melanie has had a passion for wildlife since childhood. She obtained a BSc from the University of New Brunswick in 2008, and then did an MSc on predator-community dynamics in Atlantic intertidal ecosystems, graduating in 2012. During her PhD, she worked on understanding the way in which predators indirectly impact their prey through study of the iconic Canadian hare-lynx population cycles and spent much of that time working in the beautiful Kluane region of the Yukon. After completing her doctoral degree in 2019, she went on to Mississippi State as a postdoctoral associate. Her postdoctoral work focused on creating a variety of applied spatial products for collaborators from various state or federal agencies, on taxa ranging from waterfowl to black bears, all of which helped guide decision-making and management. As of 2020, she became an Assistant Research Professor and continues to create products for a variety of stakeholders. She also loves participating in public outreach opportunities, such as the Skype a Scientist program (https://www.skypeascientist.com/), is heavily involved in student mentorship, and is a strong advocate for mental health in academia and Women in STEM.

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