Kaitie is a Master's student in the Stream Ecology Center at the Idaho State University, working under Dr. Colden Baxter. She graduated from SUNY Brockport in 2011 with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and began her graduate studies in summer 2024. Prior to returning to school, she spent her time for more than a decade working across the western and the Midwest United States within the natural resources field. Kaitie dedicated 9 years of that time with the Oregon Department of the Fish and Wildlife and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. These experiences helped to shape her fish experience and interest in conservation management. Her current research is in collaboration with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Department of Fish and Wildlife and focuses on the the Fort Hall Bottoms, a river-floodplain ecosystem within the Snake River Basin. Kaitie's work addresses three main questions: 1) Are the localized habitat manipulations altering trout populations?, 2) What proportion of trout using the Tribal waters are hatchery stocked triploid rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)?, and 3) What are potential population-scale impacts of rainbow trout on Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri)? Outside of her research, Kaitie enjoys baking delicious treats and adventuring the outdoors with her husband and their two corgis, Finn and Penny.