WARNELL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Wezddy studies mammalian ecology and conservation, particularly focusing on spatial patterns in populations and human-feline conflict. Since 2013, Wezddy has been a member of the Ecology and Conservation of Felines in the Amazon Research Group (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá) in Brazil. For her doctoral research, Wezddy will be working to integrate data that she has collected about human-feline interactions in the Brazilian Amazon and jaguar movement to develop strategies to reduce human-jaguar conflict..