Breeanne K Jackson
Dr. Breezy Jackson is the director of the Yosemite and Sequoia Field Stations for the University of California, Merced. As director, Breezy has primarily focused on improving safety and sense of belonging in the field through programs such as ¿field curious? and improving coordination of research and education activities with the National Parks. She currently serves as an elected representative to the UC Natural Reserve System (UCNRS) Advisory Committee to the President, as co-chair of the UCNRS Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, and as a member of the Organization of Biological Field Stations Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access+ Committee. Breezy moved to UC Merced from Yosemite National Park where she worked as a wildlife biologist and managed multiple research projects aimed at protecting sensitive terrestrial wildlife taxa including mountain lion, Sierra Nevada red fox, butterflies, and bats. While in Yosemite, Breezy was known for advancing a culture of inclusive field safety and for starting the Big Wall Bats Program aimed at utilizing a transdisciplinary collaboration between climbers and ecologists to protect bat species. An ecologist by training, Breezy spent most of her early career studying the influence of forest fires on streams and riparian ecosystems out of the University of Idaho Taylor Wilderness Research Station in the Middle Fork Salmon watershed in central Idaho and in the Illilouette Basin in Yosemite. Besides her work as a scientist, Breezy worked as a firefighter and fire lookout for the USDA Forest Service on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington State and as a field coordinator for the United States Antarctic Program. Breezy holds a BS in Environmental Science from St. Mary’s College of California, an MS in Outdoor Leadership and an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Idaho, and a PhD in Ecosystem Ecology from The Ohio State University. Breezy lives at Yosemite Field Station inside the southern entrance to the park. When not evacuating for wildfires or shoveling snow, she loves to climb, paddle, bike, and ski.
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