Cynthia Carter
Lecturer
Dr. Carter is a faculty lecturer in the wildlife program at the University of Georgia. She developed and teaches the core major course in Wildlife Science and also teaches Herpetology, Natural History of Georgia, Natural Resources Ecology and Management, and a joint study abroad course in New Zealand and Australia on animal behavior and sustaining human societies and natural environments. Dr. Carter also mentors undergraduates in Senior Thesis research, supports capstone Senior Projects, and co-advises the Herpetological Society. Dr. Carter received her Ph.D. in 2023 from Warnell studying the evolutionary ecology of salamanders in relation to climate including how natural hybrid zones may contribute to the future responses of salamander populations to climate change. She received her B.Sc. in Ecology from UGA in 2013 and her masters from Eastern Illinois University in 2015. Her undergraduate research examined long-term changes in snake communities in the southwestern U.S. and she dabbled in some road ecology of Gila monsters. Her masters research used stable isotopes to study prey use ontogeny and overlap among species of aquatic snakes.
Education
Education
- Ph.D., Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia
- M.S., Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University
- B.S., Ecology, University of Georgia
Other Professional Experience
Other Professional Experience
Program Coordinator, Oxford Institute for Environmental Education, 2016 – 2017)
