Catherine F. Frock

I am an ecologist with a focus in field-based studies with conservation applications. I have a strong interest in questions at the intersection of landscape ecology and animal behavior (i.e., behavioral landscape ecology), particularly (1) animal movement ecology in heterogeneous and changing spatiotemporal environments and (2) individual variation in the form of animal personalities. I am excited about and motivated to understand the implications of research in behavioral landscape ecology for the conservation of special status species in the face of climate change and other anthropogenic environmental stressors.

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SPRING 2024
Open to new employment! I am ideally looking for a full-time, permanent position in the U.S. that combines my interests of wildlife field work, spatial analysis, project management, and environmental education/outreach.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

I have been conducting biological field work for the past 15+ years, when I started as an undergraduate student in Dr. Nick Haddad’s lab at North Carolina State University in my home state. For the ~3.5 years after I graduated, I worked as a wildlife technician in California on a variety of projects with the federal government, UC-Berkeley, and other organizations (see Experience). In 2015, I completed my Master's degree with Dr. Monica Turner’s Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I finished a second Master's degree in Dr. Bob McCleery's lab at the University of Florida and co-advised by Dr. Mike Conner at the Joseph Center at Ichauway in Georgia in 2022. I am currently living in the Asheville, NC area.