Celeste Fiumara
I graduated from the University of Montana with a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and a minor in wilderness studies. Since graduating, I have worked as a field technician on many research projects. My early field jobs were working with large mammals. I first started working for Montana Fish and Wildlife service in White Fish, tracking grizzlies for bear management. My mammal research also includes grey wolves, lynx, and shrews. For the years to follow I worked on song bird research, mapping and monitoring nests in Arizona on the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, and breeding bird project in Yellowstone National Park. I’ve also worked internationally on nesting birds of Cuba, and in Ecuador, sampling blood and banding Ant birds for a genetics project. The tropics are where I first became interested in insects; specifically, their diversity and ecological interactions with plants and animals.
For my master’s thesis research at Appalachian State, I studied spatial variation in beetle community composition and compared beetle populations between reference and calcium-treated watersheds, at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH.