TWS member shares her journey to wildlife biology

TWS member Asia Murphy knew she wanted to study wildlife since she was a child, when she watched nature documentaries on television. As a wildlife biologist, she has studied a variety of species, from voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) on the Minnesota prairie to carnivores in Madagascar to her latest PhD project on how carnivores affect white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawns in Pennsylvania. In a Q&A with the Sierra Club, the Penn State graduate student shares her journey to becoming a wildlife biologist. “I wasn’t really interested in using a microscope and identifying species based on things like leg length or genes,” she said. “I wanted to be outside.”

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