Natalie Claunch, PhD, is a Wildlife Biologist at the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center Florida Field Station, where she conducts research on human-wildlife conflict management focused on invasive reptiles and birds. Additional research interests are the intersections between invasion ecology, herpetology, and eco-physiology, such as how the physiological responses to novel or stressful environments that accompany introduction to new areas or exposure to diseases influence success of invasion or resistance to novel pathogens. She has worked with invasive pathogens (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans) in amphibians, stress and immune physiology of invasive Burmese pythons, brown tree snakes, curly-tailed lizards, Peters’ rock agamas, and native rattlesnakes, and thermal physiology in panther chameleons, curly-tailed lizards, and native Sceloporus lizards. Natalie received a B.S. in Zoology from NC State University, M.S. in Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Ph.D. from University of Florida.