Where the Wild Things Are
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By Beth Forkner Moe
ith the explosion in STEM careers over the past couple decades, women have found professional homes in careers their mothers or grandmothers could never have dreamed of. We talked to two women originally from Southeast Minnesota who both love art, music and theater, and fell in love with science – particularly wildlife research – while in college.
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Emily Buege Donovan is a Spatial Analyst and Database Manager for the Snapshot Wisconsin Project, a network of citizen-run trail cameras. The Project is part of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. She focuses on the data and science area of the Project, maintaining data quality and translating the data into products that are useful for wildlife management. She graduated from Winona State University with a degree in Ecology, then earned a Master’s degree in Geography with an emphasis on environmental and natural resources. Her thesis concentrated on the spatial distribution of tropical fish nests in Belize. Katie Lieder is a Fisheries Technician with the La Crosse Fish & Wildlife Conservation Office in Onalaska, Wisc., which is part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She has
