Margaret Jensen

Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department, Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science

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Email: mbjense@clemson.edu

Educational Background

B.S. Conservation Biology
St. Lawrence University 2020

Profile

Margaret grew up in the temperate and sub-boreal forests of New Hampshire, running up and down mountains and eagerly exploring every possible landscape. Since getting their bachelor’s in Conservation Biology at St. Lawrence University in northern New York in 2020, Margaret has been deepening their love for birds through fieldwork all over the world. They’ve monitored nesting Common Loons and Rusty Blackbirds in northern New Hampshire. They’ve maintained habitat for native waterbirds in Hawaii’s wetlands, and studied fruit dispersal by nonnative birds in its upland forests. They spent a winter on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) banding albatross, surveying for Laysan Ducks and various shorebirds, and removing invasive plants. Off the coast of Maine, they supervised a team monitoring tern growth and productivity for two summers (and got stabbed in the head regularly by protective terns). They nest-searched Superb Fairy-wrens in Australia and Great Grey and Spotted Owls in California. Margaret has also worked at passerine banding stations in Ontario, Alaska, and Pennsylvania.
At the Kennedy Center, Margaret works as a waterfowl biologist investigating the behavior and genetics of game-farm Mallards in South Carolina, as well as how they affect wild Mallard populations. They’re eager to get to know the ducks, people, and landscapes of South Carolina, and to add a new species and location to their list of experiences.
When they’re not staring at or waiting for birds, Margaret can be found making art, telling stories, playing music, wandering at various speeds through the woods, or in some form of boat.