Vanessa Lane

Dr. Lane has a diverse background in wildlife ecology and management. She received her B.S. of Natural Resources at Cornell University. She studied the nesting and brood-rearing habitat of greater sage-grouse in Montana and Wyoming as part of her M.S. in Animal and Range Sciences at Montana State University. She examined the long-term effects of site preparation techniques on small mammal, bird, and plant communities in pine plantations in the lower coastal plain of North Carolina for her Ph.D. in Forest Resources at the University of Georgia.

After earning her Ph.D., Dr. Lane worked as a post doc for the USDA Forest Service to examine the effectiveness of an agency-wide safety program using a robust survey technique, which received over 10,000 responses and over 3,000 comments from participants. Her first teaching position was at the University of Minnesota - Crookston, where she also studied the effects of cattail removal techniques on native wetland plants and amphibian communities. She began working at ABAC in the fall of 2014 and has since become active with undergraduate research projects and opportunities at the college in addition to her full-time teaching.