Our Team

Staff

Dr. Jim Anderson, Director

James C. Kennedy Waterfowl & Wetlands Conservation Center

Dr. James T. (Jim) Anderson is the James C. Kennedy Endowed Professor of Waterfowl and Wetland Ecology, the Director of the James C. Kennedy Waterfowl and Wetland Center, and a faculty member in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University. Jim arrived at Clemson in August 2021. Until August 2021, he was a Wildlife and Fisheries Resources Professor and the Davis-Michael Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at West Virginia University (WVU). He started at WVU in January 1999 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 2004, and became a full professor in 2009. He earned a B.S. in wildlife from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1991), an M.S. in range and wildlife management through the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (1994), and a Ph.D. in wildlife science from Texas Tech University (1997).

Jim’s research centers on wetland and riparian wildlife ecology and wetland/ riparian management. He has published >150 scientific articles, mentored over 60 graduate students, and garnered >$29 million in grants and contracts. Jim has taught or co-taught various courses,including Waterfowl Ecology, Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, The Tradition of Hunting, Renewable Resources Policy and Governance, Applied Wetlands Ecology and Management, and Restoration Ecology. He has received multiple department and college awards for outstanding researcher, teacher, and service provider. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the West Virginia University Forestry Alumni Association.

In his spare time, Jim likes to garden, hunt, and go on adventures with his wife, Heather, and their Labrador retriever, Gideon.

For more details please view Jim's profile.

Angela Hsiung, Postdoctoral Researcher

James C. Kennedy Waterfowl & Wetlands Conservation Center

Angela is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Jim Anderson at Clemson University’s James C. Kennedy Waterfowl and Wetlands Conservation Center. She received her B.S. in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology from University of California–Davis where she started cultivating her passion for conservation of wildlife and fish populations. It was also through UC Davis that she took a hunter education course and went on her first – and only so far – duck hunting trip where she bagged exactly one mallard.

Angela went on to work on several field projects conducting bird, small mammal and fish surveys, taking her from old growth forests in Oregon to Amazonian rainforests in Peru. Her passion for avian research led her to Athens, GA to pursue a M.S. degree at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources where she studied movement ecology of Long-tailed Manakins, a neotropical songbird, in agricultural landscapes in Costa Rica. Wanting to work more closely with imperiled species and contribute to their conservation and management, Angela continued to pursue a Ph.D. in the Integrative Conservation Program at UGA focused on using both quantitative and qualitative tools to help inform conservation decision making of imperiled sucker fish in the southeast.

Currently, Angela is working with Dr. Anderson along with Drs. Beth Ross and Heath Hagy from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to investigate cross-seasonal effects of waterfowl vital rates on population growth rates by leveraging different types of data (e.g., banding, harvest, population surveys) while analyzing them under a common framework within the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Central flyways.

In her spare time, Angela can be found running down the streets and trails in Athens, GA and surrounding areas or hanging out with her partner, their dogs, and foster pups!