Biography - Kristen M Kostelnik

Ms. Kostelnik is an ecologist who focuses on rare, threatened, and endangered species ecology, conservation, management and restoration. Her species of interest are located primarily on military and other public lands in the eastern parts of North Carolina. She has a B.A. in Political Science (with a minor in Communications) from Appalachian State University and an M.S. in Botany from North Carolina State University. She is currently both a Ph.D. candidate in Botany at North Carolina State University and working at Michigan State University on several projects that focus on active teaching and learning in undergraduate science education. While at NC State University Ms. Kostelnik held a graduate fellowship in Research Ethics and taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in several subjects. For the last few years she has been teaching public courses in ecology and botany as part of the Native Plant Certification Program at the North Carolina Botanical Garden as well as at the Bald Head Island Conservancy and the Town of Ocracoke, North Carolina.