endangered species

Ambre Chaudoin's lab research was featured in the UA News, and a USGS press release. The articles summarize a project Ambre and her fellow researches are conducting for her masters research, and also show video of effects of the 4/4/2010 Baja Earthquake on the federally protected Devils Hole ecosystem and its endangered Devils Hole pupfish. Ambre's masters theses uses video and water-quality monitoring systems to correlate spawning activity in the Devils Hole pupfish to a multitude of extreme environmental factors they endure in nature.

I am originally from North Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UNC-Wilmington. I worked as a research assistant for Dr. David Webster (Professor and curator of mammals) at the university after graduation. I prepared over 3,000 mammal specimens for the collection, and performed mammal inventories for the National Park Service in the southeastern US.

Dr. John Koprowski in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment takes a special interest in what happens to populations at the edges of their range. Range edges are constantly growing due to fragmentation - and these are the places where we are likely to see striking ecological shifts as the climate changes.