Email: mandigordon@tamu.edu
Mandi is a Ph.D. Student in the department of Ecology and Conservation Biology. Her research primarily focuses on the use of aquatic turtles as model species for evaluating a range of conservation-based questions. As part of a collaborative project on the middle Texas coast, Mandi’s current research focuses on using diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) as a sentinel species for toxin bioaccumulation in shoreline habitats. Mandi earned her M.S. in biology from Georgia Southern University and her B.S. in marine biology from Texas A&M University at Galveston. In addition to her work at Texas A&M, Mandi is the resident Senior Biologist with the Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH) at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. There, she manages EIH’s state-wide monitoring projects and coordinates many of EIH’s wildlife studies.
