Graduate Students
This is a partial list of current graduate students in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation.
Tara Meyer
PhD Candidate, Fish & Wildlife Biology
Contact
- Office
- SH 108
- tara.meyer@umontana.edu
Personal Summary
Tara’s interests in science drove her to study ecology as an undergraduate at Colgate University, and afterwards, technician positions observing African elephants in Tanzania and grey wolves in Wyoming. In 2015 Tara earned her MESc from the Yale School of the Environment, examining snow leopards in western Tajikistan. After Yale, Tara supervised the region 5 wildlife conflict and private lands programs with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and then amplified conservation impacts with the Wildlife Conservation Network. She was named an Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader in 2017, and during her two-year fellowship she contributed research towards monitoring Grauer's gorillas in the DRC. For her PhD, Tara is examining the effects of climate changes on top-down and bottom-up drivers of elk migration, parturition, and survival in the Canadian Rockies (part of the Ya Ha Tinda Long-Term Elk Monitoring Project). Tara spends her free time exploring the outdoors and traveling with her husband David and their two children.
Education
B.A. Colgate University
M.E.Sc. Yale University