Dr Christine WILKINSON

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

Christine Wilkinson is a conservation biologist and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include human-wildlife conflict, carnivore movement ecology, multidisciplinary mapping, and using participatory methods for more effective and inclusive conservation outcomes. She has spent the last decade working in conservation biology and natural resource management around the USA and in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and has served in various capacities as an informal educator. Christine is currently studying the socioecological drivers of urban carnivore movement and conflict in the Bay Area, California. She is also using remote sensing and GIS analyses in conjunction with participatory mapping to understand landscape permeability for carnivores, livestock predation instances and perceived human-hyena conflict, and the intersection between human and carnivore resource needs in and around Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.