Meghan Keating

Postdoctoral Fellow
Forestry and Environmental Conservation Department

Office: 231 FEC Building
Phone:

Email: mpkeati@clemson.edu
Personal Website: http://www.meghankeating.com

Educational Background

Ph.D. Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Clemson University 2026

M.S. Natural Resource and Environmental Science
University of Nevada, Reno 2021

B.S. Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Colorado State University 2016

Courses Taught

FNR4700 - Carnivore Ecology Creative Inquiry (Fall 2022 - Spring 2026)
WFB4610 - Quantitative Ecology (Spring 2025)
WFB4611 - Quantitative Ecology Lab (Spring 2025)

Profile

Meghan is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. David Jachowski studying human impacts on mammalian carnivore ecology and conservation. By integrating wildlife ecology with spatial and field approaches, collaborative research, and science communication, she aims to advance ecological understanding while producing knowledge that is relevant and actionable for wildlife conservation and management.

Meghan earned her B.S. in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, after which she spent three years as a field technician at the USGS’s Western Ecological Research Center focusing on duckling brood pond use and survival, and mesopredator interactions with nesting waterfowl. She earned her M.S. at the University of Nevada, Reno, by developing statistical models to describe the ecological drivers of animal movement. She earned her Ph.D. at Clemson, where she researched the effects of urbanization and anticoagulant rodenticide use on bobcats and other mammalian carnivores in the southeastern US. She is passionate about collaborative research, strong methodology, and carnivore conservation.

Research Interests

Animal movement, applied research, carnivore ecology, conservation, environmental toxicology

Extension and Outreach

Meghan is involved in outreach at several scales such as popular media features, educational tables and nature walks, public forum panels and talks, and international, national, and regional conference presentations.

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