Melissa Starking

Melissa Starking

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Ph.D. Student
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

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Gary Roloff

Background:

Melissa recently graduated from the University of Michigan-Flint with her MS in Biology and a certificate in GIS. For her thesis she studied headstarted Blanding’s Turtles through a project with Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge and the Detroit Zoo. Now she is a part of the Applied Forest and Wildlife Ecology Lab working towards her PhD on Wildlife Responses to Innovative Silvicultural Approaches in Northern Hardwood Forests of Michigan.

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