Krista McDermid
Krista holds a Master’s degree in Wildlife Ecology from Texas State University in San Marcos and a bachelor’s degree in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior from The University of Texas at Austin , where she worked on behavioral and genetic development of the zebra fish, Danio rerio. Krista has worked as a biologist for Texas Parks & Wildlife Department monitoring white-winged dove migration and population, and the City of Austin assisting with a mark-recapture study on the Jollyville Plateau Salamander, Eurycea tonkawae. Krista is a GIS technician; she received her certification in ArcView 3.x in 2005 and is currently pursuing further GIS education through Penn State University . She has worked with Zara since 2007 and in that time has participated in cave surveys, karst surveys, biomonitoring, aquifer fauna surveys and various other consulting activities. She holds a Texas Parks and WildlifeScientific Research Permit to collect and study aquifer fauna and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Permit to collect and study federally listed endangered Texas karst invertebrate species.