Jennifer Zahratka, Zoologist

Jennifer Zahratka joined Ecosphere in 2004 and serves as a project manager. She has spent more than nine years studying wildlife species and their life histories, including high-profile and controversial threatened and endangered mammalian species. With a strong background in research design and statistical analyses, she has led many wildlife projects including extensive live-trapping and translocation of prairie dogs, a population ecology study of small mammals, kit fox spotlighting surveys, and presence/absence surveys for banner-tailed kangaroo rats. Jennifer regularly prepares and reviews NEPA documents, and she is a Certified Wetland Delineator. Additionally, she has conducted surveys and evaluated habitat for federally threatened and endangered plants and wildlife. She is experienced in snow-tracking, mammal trapping and handling, chemical immobilization, radio-tracking wildlife, and terrestrial habitat ecology. She has authored technical and research reports and is currently publishing two manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Jennifer holds a M.S. in zoology and physiology from the University of Wyoming, and a B.A. in environmental studies and biology from the University of St. Thomas.

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