Kathleen L Prudic

Biography

Kathleen ‘Katy’ Prudic is an entomologist interested in discovering how ecological and evolutionary interactions promote biodiversity and how they can inform conservation decision making.

She is co-director of eButterfly, an online citizen science platform that harnesses the observations of thousands of butterfly enthusiasts across the globe to understand how and when butterflies and other pollinators react to environmental changes.

Her research encompasses precision conservation, human-computer networks, and data science.

Her discoveries have been published in as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Behavioral Ecology and covered by Associated Press, BBC, CBC, National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine.

She teaches Sustainable Earth (RNR 150) online and R Programming (RNR 620) for the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at Arizona.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Evolution and Ecology, Minor in Entomology
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
• Warning and Deception: Chemical, Behavioral, and Phylogenetic Studies of Aposematic Coloration and Mimicry
• B.S. Evolution and Ecology
• University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States
• Mimicry between California Sister and Lorquini's Admiral butterflies

Awards

• Cardon Instructional Excellence Fellow
• CALES, Spring 2024
• Tenure
• University of Arizona, Spring 2024
• Outstanding Researcher
• School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Spring 2021
• Natural Resources Conservation Achievement Award
• Department of Interior, Spring 2020
• TrailBlazer, Natural Resources Conservation Award
• US Geological Survey, Fall 2019