LSU wildlife researcher works toward waterfowl conservation

Janice Pearson graduated from LSU with a bachelor's degree in natural resources and ecology management with a minor in oceanography and coastal sciences. Now, she's turning her passion into purpose as she steps into a role with LSU’s School of Renewable Natural Resources as a wildlife research technician.

For three years, Pearson was a student worker who assisted with waterfowl studies and wildlife distribution research at the Reproductive Biology Center at the LSU AgCenter’s Central Research Station. Today, she works with that same department to visit state wildlife management areas to conduct field work and collect data on Black-bellied whistling ducks, wood ducks and mottled ducks.

One of the most rewarding parts of her job is working with the next generation of conservationists.

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