Dr. Erim Gómez is an assistant professor of wildlife biology at the University of Montana, where he leads the Charismatic Minifauna Lab. He has 22 years of conservation, environmental, and wildlife biology experience. He is a past award winner of the Bullitt Environmental Leadership Fellowship and now serves on the Board of the Bullitt Foundation. He has formerly served as Co-Director of Southern Oregon University’s Ecology Center of the Siskiyous. As director he co-led an effort to pass a green-tags initiative to offset the university’s carbon footprint. He has served on the board of Montana Natural History Center, Oregon Stewardship, and the board of the Society of Northwestern Vertebrate Biology. Gómez holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from Southern Oregon University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences from Washington State University. Gómez is a naturalist at heart and thus has eclectic research interests, including the conservation of endangered species, the ecology and sustainability of freshwater ecosystems, and amphibians, freshwater fish, and of course, charismatic minifauna.

Erim was interviewed on our podcast, Can I Get a Retake? - listen below!