Maritza Mallek

Maritza Mallek joined the Austin Ecological Services Field Office in 2018, where she works on classification and recovery. So far, her work has covered a variety of taxa, including lizards, turtles, salamanders, fish, and plants, across the full range of Texas covered by this office, as well as parts of south Texas and the lower Rio Grande Valley. Building close and productive working relationships with species experts and relevant state agencies in order to further conservation and stewardship of natural resources has been a constant throughout her career. Prior to moving to Texas, she worked for the Service in the northeast doing science coordination and analysis with the Science Applications program, followed by a stint as an ecologist and data manager with the National Wildlife Refuge System Inventory and Monitoring Program. She began her career in the West, where she focused on active resource management, especially noxious weed management, which took her to the Salmon-Challis National Forest, Redwood National and State Parks, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. Maritza holds a B.A. in Geography from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Environmental Conservation with a focus in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her graduate research involved spatially-explicit modeling of wildfire and forest succession on the Tahoe National Forest in order to quantify the historical and future range of variability in forest structure structure
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