Molly Parren, 2019

Thesis:

Drought and Coyotes Mediate the Relationship Between Mesopredators and Human Disturbance in California

Molly used camera trap data collected at 585 sites in 2016 (drought) and 2017 (post-drought) in both the Central Valley and Mojave Desert of California for her thesis. She examined how drought and co-occurrence with coyotes (Canis latrans) mediate spatial patterns of mesopredator occurrence across a continuum of human disturbance levels in the Central Valley and Mojave Desert of California. Following graduate school, Molly moved back to the East Coast where she is currently a research associate at the American Turtle Observatory working on regional conservation plans for several freshwater turtle species.