Kerry Wixted Email & Phone Number

Annapolis, MD, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

-Serves states and partners through communication, coordination, training and network and partnership building to support conservation and management of amphibians, reptiles, and invasive species. -Serves as state coordinator for Partners for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) and provides assistance to the PARC Joint National Steering Committee and.

Designed and instructed 5-week summer Invasive Plant course and 10-week Mammal course for the Natural History Field Studies program offered in partnership with Audubon Naturalist Society. Led field identification experiences and evaluated student learning through assessments. Semesters taught: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Summer 2018; Winter 2022; Fall 2023

Annapolis, MD

- Coordinate Project WILD and Growing Up WILD environmental education programs at the state level. Combined, these programs train over 800 MD educators each year. - Oversee Wild Acres backyard wildlife habitat program. Duties include creating fact sheets, giving public presentations, and providing technical input on backyard wildlife conservation. -Oversee.

I inventoried both existing and new records for rare, threatened and endangered (RTE) species throughout southern MD. In addition, I used rapid assessment techniques to classify plant communities. I used ArcGIS on a Trimble Juno every day to navigate to field sites, to map out RTE populations and to design maps for private and public landowners. My survey.

I researched the competitive effects of garlic mustard on American ginseng while concurrently assisting with a long term demography census of natural American ginseng populations. I recently published an article on "A Panax-centric view of invasive species" in the April 2009 issue of Biological Invasions while my research on "The competitive and.

I performed a variety of tasks from cleaning lab equipment to testing water quality parameters such as pH, specific conductivity, acid-neutralizing capacity, acidity, and alkalinity. Furthermore, I filtered and prepared samples for total nitrogen and total dissolved solids.

For one summer, I worked on a research crew investigating the efficiency of backpack vs parallel wires to sample fish populations. I also helped collect population and habitat data concerning the distribution of several sensitive fish species in the Greenbrier river in WV.

Environmental And Evolutionary Biology, Botany

Activities and Societies: The Wildlife Society

Wildlife And Fisheries Management, Wildlife, Fisheries, Biology, Botany

Activities and Societies: The Wildlife Society, Sierra Club, Allen HallSTARS