Jocelyn founded Cascades Carnivore Project as a shoestring effort to address the conservation issues facing rare carnivores in the Cascade Mountain Range. She earned her PhD in Conservation Genetics from the University of California Davis where she focused on the ecology and conservation of the Cascade red fox. Jocelyn loves mountain ecosystems and employing genetic and ecological tools to better understand how carnivores and their habitats are faring in the face of climate change.

Katy manages our science program, administers our grants, oversees our community science program, expands our community engagement, manages daily operations, and supports our executive director and board of directors in planning. She lives in Hood River, Oregon and has been an educator for over 20 years. She earned her BA in English from the University of Colorado Boulder and holds two Master’s degrees – an MS in Curriculum and Instruction from Portland State University and an M.A. in Literature from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English.

Heather leads many of our field projects, collecting rare montane carnivore genetic samples and setting wildlife monitoring stations. She completed a BA in Organismal Biology and Ecology at Colorado College, and has worked on diverse wildlife projects from live-trapping snowshoe hares in northeast Washington to reintroducing native wildlife in the San Juan Islands and surveying the Mojave for desert tortoises. She enjoys working in remote areas of the Cascades and is especially passionate about studying carnivore poop. 

Gretchen is a professional conservation photographer who spends countless hours each year hiking in remote Cascade red fox and wolverine habitat to track and document individuals while collecting scat samples for DNA analysis. She photographs wildlife of the Cascades both in-person and with DSLR camera trap technology. Her photos have resulted in impressive discoveries and help us raise much-needed awareness for threatened carnivores and their fragile ecosystems. Gretchen is happiest roaming around in the mountains with wildlife, but when not in the field she also handles communications for the org.

Kirsten coordinates our community science photo program, oversees a 2TB photographic dataset, and manages our wolverine image database. She works with our photo sorter community scientists. Over the years she has helped manage data for a variety of projects, most notably the Wolverine Identification Program. Kirsten has a wide range of scientific interests and currently lives in Arizona, where she will complete her degree in physiology with the hope of joining a medical field.

Brittany manages our organizational administration, supports our community science program, and helps manage our photographic and genetic collections for our long-term research studies the Cascades Range, and . She earned her B.Sc. in Wildlife Biology and Conservation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she spent most of her time looking at marmot hairs. Though marmots will always have a special place in her heart, her real passion is for carnivore conservation. She's excited to work towards that goal as part of our conservation work as she embarks on a M.Sc.

Scott led many of our field efforts and was the driver behind many research successes. He has worked as a wildlife biologist since 2011 primarily studying montane and forest carnivores, and raptors. He has led raptor migration monitoring sites for HawkWatch International, conducted wildlife surveys for the USFS, and studied American kestrels for Boise State University. He enjoys the challenge of studying mountain carnivores in their remote habitats and is passionate about conserving those wild places and protecting public lands.

Kayla collaborated on several of our carnivore projects. She completed a B.A. at the University of Iowa and a graduate certificate in Wildlife Management at the Oregon State University. She has studied golden eagles and other raptors, and spent 4 years as a Wilderness Ranger for the US Forest Service. Her favorite aspect of her current role is glimpsing the lives of rare carnivores by following their tracks through the snow. For her MSc, she is studying the fisher, a rare carnivore recently reintroduced to the Cascades, at the University of Washington.

Todd led our Sierra Nevada red fox program in Oregon. His research interests are in the interaction between carnivores, primarily montane red fox and American marten, and changes in forest structure resulting from both management activities and climate change. He is currently addressing these topics for graduate study at the Oregon State University. Prior to joining the conservation world he worked on large scale simulation with big data at Microsoft.