Jesse Senko
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Mail code: 5603Campus: Tempe
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Jesse Senko is an Assistant Research Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University. His research links ecology and animal behavior with management and policy to address dynamic coastal conservation challenges of the 21st century. Senko works with multiple stakeholders in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans to develop, test, and implement scalable conservation solutions that protect vulnerable marine megafauna while ensuring the ecological and socioeconomic sustainability of coastal fisheries. His research has been published in leading biology, conservation, and policy journals as well as featured in CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Economist, NPR, The Guardian, USA Today, Bloomberg, Forbes, Nature, Science, and other major outlets. An avid recreational fisher who grew up in New England, Senko majored in fisheries and wildlife sciences at the University of Connecticut, received his master's in wildlife ecology and conservation from the University of Florida, and earned his Ph.D. in biology from Arizona State University.
- PhD, Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- MSc, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- BSc, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
