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Kaggie Orrick

Ph.D. Candidate
Yale School of the Environment

Education

M.A., 2015, Columbia University, Conservation Biology
B.A., 2010, Colby College, Environmental Studies

​Curriculum Vitae

​Click here to download CV.

Contact

Email: kaggie.orrick [at] yale.edu 
Website: https://kdorrick.github.io/
Office: Greeley Laboratory, Rm 119


Mailing Address:
Yale University
School of the Environment
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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Research

I am interested in the human-wildlife interface - how humans, wildlife and livestock impact one another across the landscape. I am especially interested in non-traditional methods to understanding these relationships and holistic approaches to conservation that involve local communities. I use anthropological theories and expand them to examine social-ecological systems; thus my work spans across qualitative and quantitative disciplines and methodologies. I work in the Makgadikgadi region of Botswana and am focused on the multi-species and multi-predator interaction and space use in a human-dominated (and livestock-dominated) landscape. I am also passionate about spatially-explicit software (Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS, QGIS, Netlogo) and community-based representation in conservation planning and design.

I earned a BA in Environmental Studies from Colby College in 2010. Upon completion of my undergraduate degree, I spent three years in South Africa working on a private game reserve, conducting large carnivore research as well as managing a small mammal satellite research camp on a geographically-isolated mountain range. I received a MA in Conservation Biology at Columbia University in 2015 with a thesis focused on anthropogenic features that influence elephant movement. From 2015 to 2018 worked for a non-profit NGO called Round River Conservation Studies (RRCS) in Botswana, working in partnership with the University of Botswana and the Botswana Government to help implement community-based wildlife monitoring in community trusts in the Okavango Delta. I simultaneously ran the research program while also working with 5 – 9 American undergraduates as part of their abroad program with RRCS. We lived in tents in the field for three months at a time while working with community members, teaching five college-level courses, conducting research and cooking over an open fire. I have continued partnering with RRCS throughout my PhD and much of my work and my motivation comes from the experiences and knowledge I gained in Botswana.

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Publications

3. Zhou, W. Orrick, K. and Lim, A. and Dove, M.. 2021. “Reframing Conservation and Development Perspectives on Bushmeat.” Environmental Research Letters. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3db1/meta

2. Orrick, K.D. “Range Size and Drivers of African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Space Use on Karongwe Private Game Reserve, South Africa.” African Journal of Ecology 56, no. 3 (2018): 572–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12500.

1. Heinemeyer, K., Masunga, G.S. Orrick, K., Smith, J., Sinvula, M., Dain-Owens, S. (2016). Community-based wildlife monitoring in selected concessions of Chobe and the Okavango Delta, 2013-2015.
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    • Dylan Feldmeier
    • Vivian Hawkinson
    • Janey Lienau
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    • Mizna Almaazmi
    • Gino Rivera Bulnes
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    • Animals in Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
    • Human-Wildlife Interactions
    • Landscape Spatial Dynamics
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    • Invasive Species
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  • Pubs
  • Media
  • Join