Claire Teitelbaum

Claire Teitelbaum joined the Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in September 2024. She is an Assistant Unit Leader and Adjust Assistant Professor in in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. Her research broadly covers movement, behavior, and population dynamics of wildlife, especially related to habitat, climate, and infectious diseases. Claire uses and adapts quantitative methods to analyze and combine data sets from animal telemetry, biodiversity databases, biological surveys, and remote sensing. Claire received her Ph.D. from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia and her B.A. from Pomona College. She held post-doctoral positions at the USGS’s Eastern Ecological Science Center (formerly Patuxent Wildlife Research Center) and NASA’s Ames Research Center before joining the Georgia Unit.