Mary McFadzen, Program Manager, USA

Mary provides program management support to the NSF and PREEMPT research projects and the Plowright Lab at Montana State University. She also provides communications and science outreach expertise to the US Fish and Wildlife Service on landscape conservation projects. After making the leap from studying birds to communicating science years ago, Mary has been developing and disseminating science-based information to natural resource professionals in online and print formats. Mary holds a Master of Science degree in ecology from Utah State University and a certificate in Distance Learning from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an employee of the Montana Institute of Ecosystems at Montana State University.