Marisa Zimmerman

PhD Student - Wildlife & Fisheries Biology
Graduate Research Assistant
Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department

Office: 270 Lehotsky Hall
Phone:

Email: marisaz@clemson.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. Wildlife & Fisheries Biology
Clemson University 2028

Grad.Cert. GIS
Oregon State University 2021

M.S. Environmental Sciences
Oregon State University 2023

B.S. Environmental Studies
University of Central Florida 2014

Profile

Marisa Zimmerman has been a Ph.D. student in the FEC department's Elmore lab since the Spring semester of 2024. Marisa's current work examines how habitat characteristics, management practices, and other relevant variables relate to grassland bird communities in the Southeast U.S. using datasets from The National Bobwhite and Grassland Initiative (NBGI) Coordinated Implementation Program (CIP) and examines novel ARU methodologies in the field and analysis.

Research Interests

Marisa's research interests broadly focus on birds, behavior, and environmental conservation. She is interested in hands-on conservation methods, such as aiding in prescribed burns and outreach programs and researching best wildlife management practices. In the past, she has done research on Florida Sandhill Crane habitat use in an urban environment, Sandhill and Whooping Crane rearing behaviors and other research with the International Crane Foundation (ICF) in Wisconsin, and changes in wintering passerine population metrics at wetland sites in Oregon. Smaller projects she's worked on include helping research wolf-dog hybrid temperaments, measuring and analyzing sound data of bird alarm calls, assessing biodiversity in Florida-Friendly ponds, creating a GIS tool to view and analyze long-term monitoring data, and various GIS projects.

Lab Members

Dr. Jared Elmore, Clemson FEC Research Assistant Professor
Allison Dawn - PhD Student
Percival Marshall - PhD Student
Allison Rees -PhD Student
Morgan Warner - MS Student

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