Alex McInturff, PhD

Michael joined the Washington Unit in 2021. He conducts research linking social and ecological dimensions of wildlife conservation and management. Broadly, Michael studies how values and attitudes inform human behavioral interactions with wildlife. His research gives particular attention to mapping social phenomena, such as tolerance for wildlife species, so that they might be better linked with ecological patterns. In addition, Michael centers environmental justice in his research, and he draws from theory and practice in Environmental Justice scholarship to inform more just and sustainable wildlife management strategies. Much of Michael's work focuses on large carnivores and ungulates, especially in the American West. Michael teaches courses in Social-Ecological Systems and Decision Science.

Michael received graduate degrees from Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University California Santa Barbara.