Katie Howard (PhD)

 

Katie completed her honours at La Trobe University, Bundoora, studying the impacts of predation on Growling Grass Frog tadpoles.  She has over 10 years’ experience working on a variety of research, husbandry, survey and monitoring programs with threatened species both in Australia and internationally. Currently, Katie is a scientist within the threatened species group at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research. The focus of much of Katie’s recent work relates to assessing the response of turtles to drought and flood. Katie has been leading a project for the past five years (2010-2014) which assesses the population structure, condition and recruitment of native turtles in the Barmah-Millewa Forest. Katie’s work focuses on, but is not limited to, herpetofauna across the state. Katie is joining the UWS WildLab to complete a PhD studying extinction risks and management of freshwater turtles along the Murray River.