Rae Fadlovich

S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources

Watershed Sciences Department

Rae is a quantitative ecologist interested in global change and aquatic ecosystems. She recently defended her master’s thesis, “Informing Control Efforts for a Prolific Invasive Species: Characterizing Common Carp Spatio-temporal Distribution and Evaluating the Impacts of Grear Selectivity in Utah Lake”. Prior to coming to USU, she worked as a fisheries and amphibian research technician for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Arizona Game and Fish Department, the University of Montana, and Arizona State University. She also spent a year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at a rural secondary school in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Rae loves teaching and has served as graduate teaching assistant for four courses in the Department ofWatershed Sciences. She is also passionate about mentorship and implemented undergraduate lab meetings and coding help sessions to boost the retention of undergraduate researchers. The undergraduate students she mentors have won a number of awards including three Best Student Posters at American Fisheries Society conferences and two QCNR Undergraduate Student Researchers of the Year. Next year, Rae hopes to continue growing as a mentor and researcher as a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz studying the impacts marine heatwaves on global fisheries.