Beth Gardner is an associate professor at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and the runs the Quantitative Ecology Lab, which develops innovative methods to study wildlife, plant, and fisheries populations around the world. She is interested in developing models and methods to estimate demographic rates, distributional patterns, and habitat relationships for fish and wildlife species. Most of her work is driven by an underlying interest in helping to improve decision making for conservation and management. Beth is currently the director of the Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM) interdisciplinary graduate program and the Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS) at UW.