Lísley Pereira Gomes

Lísley Pereira Gomes

M.S. Student

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Lísley is broadly interested in the human dimensions of natural resource conservation. She completed her MS degree in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech, in Dr. Chaves lab. For her MS project, Lisley examined the effects of urbanization on household access to wildlife in the Brazilian Amazon. She is now a PhD student at Arizona State University.

Lísley completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences at Universidade Federal de Alfenas, southeastern Brazil, in 2013. Since 2014 Lísley has been working with sustainable resource use in the Brazilian Amazon, collaborating on projects related to community-based monitoring of wildlife use and wildlife management. She is a member of the Latin-American Network of Women in Conservation, an associate researcher at the Mamiruá Institute of Sustainable Development (Brazil), and a member of the Research Network for Studies on Diversity, Conservation and Wildlife Use in the Amazon (RedeFauna, Brazil)