Kris Vagos, -ScienceWoman (16581226029)

March is Women’s History month, and we want to highlight some of the amazing women here at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on our social media sites.

Name:
Kris Vagos

Title:
Refuge Wildlife Biologist

Duty station:
Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge

Where did you go to school?
I went to undergraduate at Boston College and graduate school at the University of New Hampshire.

What did you study?
My Master’s Degree is in Natural Resources, but I studied biology and environmental studies at BC.

How did you get interested in conservation?
I worked as a Habitat Restoration Intern with the National Park Service in San Francisco. They were turning old Army dumps into coastal dune ecosystems and parking lots into working salt marshes. It was amazing – I wanted to do that.

If you could have one incredible animal adaptation, what would it be?

Shapeshifting camouflage