Catherine L. Malone is an American biologist and an author and co-author of biological subjects including works on

biogeography Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities o ...

and

genetic variation Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations among the same species. The multiple sources of genetic variation include mutation and genetic recombination. Mutations are the ultimate sources ...

Academic background

Catherine Malone was a graduate of

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

in August 2000, from which she earned her PhD. She previously earned her bachelor's degree from

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

in December 1994. Two years earlier she completed an associate degree from

Santa Monica College Santa Monica College (SMC) is a Public university, public community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a Junior college#United States, junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The coll ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

Positions

Teaching positions

From November 2000 to 2001 she was a guest lecturer for the Department of Biology/Biochemistry, in Texas A&M University, on a work called ''Population Genetics''. From January to August 2001 she worked for ''Conservation of St. Lucian Iguanas'' as an outreach and education coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. From the same month of the same year, she worked as course instructor for ''Department of Forestry and Natural Resources'', of

Purdue University Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...

the position of which ended in April 2002.

Work positions

From January 1995 to the September of the same year she was a scientific aide at the

California Department of Fish and Game The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), formerly known as the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), is an American state agency under the California Natural Resources Agency. The Department of Fish and Wildlife manages ...

Monterey, California Monterey ( ; ) is a city situated on the southern edge of Monterey Bay, on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. Located in Monterey County, California, Monterey County, the city occupies a land area of and recorded a popu ...

, where she worked on a salmonid habitat restoration project, which was focused on habitat restoration of

Salmonidae Salmonidae (, ) is a family (biology), family of ray-finned fish, the only extant member of the suborder Salmonoidei, consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids". The family includes salmo ...

species. From March 1995 to July 1996, she worked as a research technician in the ''Conservation Genetics Lab'', that was a part of

Hopkins Marine Station Hopkins Marine Station is the marine laboratory of Stanford University. It is located south of the university's main campus, in Pacific Grove, California (United States) on the Monterey Peninsula, adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It is h ...

in Monterey. From September 1997 to December 2000, she was a graduate research assistant for Faculty of Genetics in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. From November 1996 to present she works as a field research assistant in various

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

nations, such as

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

Montserrat Montserrat ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, wit ...

, St. Eustatius, and

Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Șaba or Șaba-Târg, the Romanian name for Shabo, a village in Ukraine * Saba, ...

St. Lucia Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent ...

Publications

Currently she published one work: *2000 — ''Phylogenetics, biogeography, and conservation of Caribbean iguanas (Cyclura and Iguana)'' And wrote others with co-authors: *2000 — ''Biogeography and Systematics of the Caribbean rock iguana (Cyclura): implications for conservation and insights into the biogeographic history of the West Indies'' *2002 — ''Genetic Contributions to the Conservation of Caribbean Iguanas. In: Evolution, Behavioral Ecology, and Conservation of Iguanas'' She also has four works in press, two of which are co-authored: *''Conservation Genetics of the Bahaman Iguana, Cyclura Cychlura. Conservation Genetics'' *''Patterns of Reproductive Success Determined by Microsatellite Analysis in a Translocated Cyclura Iguana Population'' *''Microsatellite Loci for Neotropical Tent Bats (Uroderma)'' *''Distribution of Genetic Variation in Pronghorn Antelope''

References

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