Jenna Blanton

Jenna is a wildlife biologist from Boise, Idaho where she graduated with her bachelor’s from Boise State University in biology with an emphasis in ecology and behavior. She worked as a wildlife field technician with the U.S. Forest Service on a woodpecker research project for three field seasons. She then went on to get a master’s in biology at Indiana State University where her thesis investigated the effects of a local dam removal on populations of aquatic turtles, crayfish, and diatoms. Her work focuses on crayfish research in the Quantitative Ecology Section of the Ecology Branch at CERC including environmental energetic effects on crayfish and Electro-antennogram and Electro-olfactogram methods.