April Blakeslee

Education

Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire

M.A. in Biology, Boston University

B.A. in Biology, Boston University

Biography

… is an associate professor of biology at East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina, USA), with research interests in conservation biology, marine ecology, invasion biology, parasite ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Dr. Blakeslee has published >50 peer-reviewed papers/book chapters and serves as deputy editor-in-chief for the journal BioInvasions Records and associate editor for the journals Aquatic Invasions and Diversity and Distributions. She is an appointed US member of the Working Group on Introduction and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) through the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). She is currently serving as vice president of the Eastern North Carolina chapter of Graduate Women in Science (GWIS). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH, USA) and a B.A. and M.A. in biology from Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). She has taught for Project Dragonfly since 2010, including the following courses: “Issues in Biodiversity,” “Issues in Evolution,” “Baja: Field Methods,” and “Belize I: Forest & Marine Ecology.”