K. M. F.
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 Because animals matter.

Exploring all the ways animals matter:
from their role in ecosystem function
​to how we consider them in conservation.
​I'm an ecosystem ecologist generally interested in how to incorporate animals into current ecological paradigms. Presently, I explore how animals interact with their environments, as well as how conservation considers and incorporates animals into decision making. 
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Appointments:
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Univeristy
Board Member, Alaska Future Ecology Institute 


Education:
Ph.D, Yale School of the Environment (2024)
​MPhil., Yale School of the Environment (2022) 
MSc., Vanderbilt University (2018)
BSc., Boston College (2015)

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Contact:
email: [email protected]
​twitter: @Kristyferraro
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​​Pronouns: She/Her

News:

New paper on how the term 'ecosystem services' is used and abused in ecology.

I'm honored to have won the Georgina Mace Prize from Ecological Solutions and Evidence for our paper 
quanitifying the nutrients lost from Scottish landscapes due to deer culling practices!


Excited to announce I've been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow from NSERC and have begun at Memorial University, working with the WEEL and LeRoux labs. Stay tuned for more deer-related science.

New paper demonstrating how animal zoogeochemical inputs may promote site fidelity, using simulated caribou calving. We call it the biogeochemical boomerang! 

Check out my interview with YSE after winning the Bormann Prize.


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