Alex Dutcher
USA
Lead Biologist & Co-owner, Hallux Ecosystem Restoration LLC
Alex is a co-owner and founder of Hallux Ecosystem Restoration LLC, a company conducting invasive species management and research in Hawai'i. She manages and directs a variety of predator control projects which focus on protecting threatened and endangered seabird species in the remote rainforests, valleys, and sea cliffs of Kaua'i. In addition to project management, she and her collaborators conduct research on invasive species movement ecology, genetics, and impacts on native species. Her professional background is in wildlife trapping for conservation, specifically large carnivores and invasive mammalian species both in the Midwest and Hawai'i. Alex earned a BS in Wildlife Biology and Management from Michigan State University. Post graduation, she worked on a variety of wildlife research projects, with an emphasis on large mammal tracking and genetics, and recently aided Polar Oceans Research Group for a season of Antarctic seabird monitoring. In her free time, Alex runs whatever local races she can find, skates on the local roller derby team, and enjoys diving to search for sea slugs and other marine invertebrates.