Keynote Speakers

Matt completed his B.S. in Biology at the University of Oregon in 1992 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003. Matt has been a researcher with the US Geological Survey at the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and a faculty member in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming since 2006. He took on the leadership of the Wyoming Coop Unit in 2010. He leads a research team at the University of Wyoming that focuses on the long-distance migrations of large ungulates and how changes in the landscape threaten the persistence of these migrations. In 2012, Matt co-founded the Wyoming Migration Initiative, which aims to enhance the understanding and conservation of Wyoming's migratory ungulates. Matt's research has also focused on predator-prey relationships between gray wolves and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.