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Jill Deppe is an Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Eastern Illinois University. Her research focuses on wildlife-habitat relationships and animal movement at multiple spatial scales as well as wildlife responses to anthropogenic and natural changes in the environment. Dr. Deppe and her students study how the production and management of bioenergy crops on farms in east-central Illinois affect regional wildlife, specifically small mammals and birds. Dr. Deppe earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania. She earned her Doctorate in Biology with a concentration in Evolutionary Ecology from the University of California Riverside. Afterwards Dr. Deppe completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD where she used remote sensing data to model the distribution of suitable habitat for migratory birds and continental bird movements. She then moved to Illinois where she took a position as an Avian Ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; there she continued to study bird migration movements as well as changes in bird distributions and land cover changes in Illinois over the past century. Dr. Deppe joined Eastern Illinois University in fall 2011. |
