WELCOME

Thanks for visiting!  I'm Dr. Cathy Bodinof Jachowski. I am an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University and Principal Investigator of the Freshwater Conservation Ecology research group.  Our team includes a diverse group of post-docs, PhD, MS, and undergraduate students. We collaborate with individuals from other academic institutions, private foundations, NGOs, and state and federal agencies to address questions concerning the ecology and conservation of freshwater species. Please contact me if you are are interested in working together! 

Meet our team...

WHAT WE DO

Our research group is based in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University.  We conduct research aimed at understanding the life history, behaviors, and habitat requirements of freshwater species in order to determine how their populations respond to environmental change. 

Our overarching goal is to help answer pressing ecological questions while providing conservation practitioners with objective information to better manage species and habitats.

SOME OF OUR PROJECTS

Aquatic insects, mussels, amphibians, and alligators are different in many ways - but they all depend on freshwater to complete their life cycle ​and can play important ecological roles in the systems they inhabit.  We are working to understand how they interact with their environment in order to help conserve their populations and the functions they provide.

Using aquatic insects to develop a spatial model of stream impairment

Describing host selection and juvenile survivorship of a federally endangered mussel.

Investigating prey selection and the ecological role of hellbenders

Quantifying movement and resource selection patterns alligators in human dominated landscapes.

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