Visiting Scholar Guest Speaker

Join us for Brain Biters Club for our visiting scholars series this fall! Brain Biters Club's purpose is to organize and implement a visiting scholar interview series on a monthly bases with a goal to advance professional and academic insights, spread new ideas and connect our community.

Born and raised in Iowa, Gina spent as much time as she could outside, usually in the nearby creek. While in college, she discovered a love for ecology and fieldwork (and travel!), taking volunteer trips to Montana to help set up transects for snowshoe hare population counts and to Utah for invasive tamarisk removal. She graduated from University of Iowa with a Bachelor's degree in Biology and then received her Master's degree in Biology from the University of Memphis with a conservation focus, studying the effects of roads on the behavior and physiology of the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay in central Florida. Gina is the Project Wingspan Iowa State Coordinator with Pollinator Partnership working with teams of volunteers and organizations collecting seed to increase and enhance native habitat that supports Iowa's native pollinators. Gina is also a board member with Iowa Prairie Network, a certified Iowa Master Naturalist, and writes articles and blogs for Wild Ones. In her free time, she enjoys hiking/backpacking, writing, reading, and gardening.

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