Kirsten N. Hines
Biologist
hines@regionalconservation.org

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Despite claiming to be a native of Washington State, Kirsten primarily grew up in the Philippines, has lived in five other states, and has criss-crossed the globe, exploring natural history. She received her B.A. with college honors, departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa and a love of herpetology from Earlham College in 1997. She moved to Miami in 1998 to pursue her herpetological interests at Florida International University where she studied call variation in Costa Rican Strawberry Dart-Poison Frogs for her M.S. During this time, she also participated in Earlham’s annual surveys of the endangered Allen Cays Rock Iguana in the Bahamas and assisted with an in-depth field study of their nesting ecology (see Iverson et al. 2004. The nesting ecology of the Allen Cays Rock Iguana, (Cyclura cychlura inornata) in The Bahamas. (Herpetological Monographs 18:1-36.). After completing her master’s, Kirsten continued working as a naturalist at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center in Miami, became business office manager for the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; and worked briefly as a field technician and logistical coordinator at IRC before heading off for a couple of years of international travel. After volunteering on various biology projects in Australia (flying foxes, kangaroos, bower birds and several types of frogs), traveling around New Zealand and Southeast Asia, teaching English in China, and reacquainting herself with the Bahamian iguanas (as a new member of the IUCN SSC-Iguana Specialist Group), she rejoined IRC as a biologist in 2005.