College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

Major Advisor:

Jerrold Belant

 Background:

Hailey Boone is a Ph.D. student working on the Isle Royale National Park wolf introduction project. Her project focuses on investigating mammal community dynamics and responses to wolves and park visitors. She received her B.S. from Virginia Tech, where her undergraduate research focused on assessing the population and morphology of Madagascar's black forest cats ("fitoaty"). Hailey obtained her M.S. in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at North Carolina State University. For her masters, Hailey studied white-tailed deer fawn survival and population metrics across North Carolina using large-scale remote camera surveys and citizen science. Her research interests include carnivore and ungulate ecology and management, predator-prey relationships, human-wildlife conflict, and sampling techniques to estimate abundance and movement.