Dr. Mayer earned her B.A. in Biology and Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2000. After completing a postdoctoral research position at the University of Cincinnati, studying the impacts of land use change on bird diversity, she served as an ecologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati. While there, she and her team measured the impact of green infrastructure on urban water quality, and created sustainability assessments for multidimensional, dynamic systems. She then moved to the University of Helsinki, Finland, and studied the impact of harvesting on the biodiversity of Finnish and Russian Forests. She began her current faculty position at Michigan Technological University in 2009, teaching and conducting research in ecology and environmental policy, with a focus on biodiversity conservation, forested landscapes, and urban green infrastructure.
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Environmental Policy
Landscape Ecology
sustainability science
Biodiversity conservat...
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Short Biography
Dr. Mayer earned her B.A. in Biology and Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2000. After completing a postdoctoral research position at the University of Cincinnati, studying the impacts of land use change on bird diversity, she served as an ecologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati. While there, she and her team measured the impact of green infrastructure on urban water quality, and created sustainability assessments for multidimensional, dynamic systems. She then moved to the University of Helsinki, Finland, and studied the impact of harvesting on the biodiversity of Finnish and Russian Forests. She began her current faculty position at Michigan Technological University in 2009, teaching and conducting research in ecology and environmental policy, with a focus on biodiversity conservation, forested landscapes, and urban green infrastructure.
