Dr. Jennifer M Schieltz

Dr. Jennifer Schieltz is an Associate Teaching Professor and the director of NREM's Rod and Connie French Conservation Education Camp in Montana. She is broadly interested in wildlife biology, animal behavior, and conservation, especially in large mammals. She completed her PhD at Princeton University where she studied the effects of cattle grazing on wild ungulates in Kenya and worked with land managers to promote livestock-wildlife coexistence. She grew up in Ohio and attended undergrad at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Dr. Schieltz teaches courses on campus during the fall and spring terms and runs the French Camp and teaches field courses (such as NREM 311: Field Ecology in Montana) there during the summers.