Heidi Kloeppel
Heidi Kloeppel, M.S. is the principal biologist for FPC and has more than 10 years experience in conservation and field biology. Ms. Kloeppel has extensive research and monitoring experience, including developing sampling designs for research projects; field sampling; avian, amphibian, mammalian, fish, and invertebrate collection and identification; wildlife population estimates; identification and ranking of priority wildlife habitats; water-quality sampling and analysis; restoration management and wildlife recovery plans; and non-native species removal.

Some of Ms. Kloeppel’s wildlife research experience includes a long-term study of mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Necessary skills included habitat surveys, frog and fish density estimates, water attenuation readings, non-native trout removal and otolith extraction and backcountry leadership for remote site research activities. She assisted in a recolonization study of invertebrates and algae in aquatic microcosms with varying salinities on the dry alkali lakebed of Owens Lake, California. She assisted research on avian species of special concern in Guatemala, including the horned guan. She designed and conducted studies on fish predator effects on snail prey densities using exclosure experiments and density estimates in multiple freshwater ponds in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. 

She has conducted biological springs surveys (invertebrate collection and preparation, site description, vegetation characterization, and ecological evaluation) and written spring survey protocols for the National Park Service. She has conducted monitoring studies on the southwestern willow flycatcher at the Yuma East Wetlands for two years, and assisted in monitoring studies for the Yuma clapper rail.

Ms. Kloeppel earned her B.A. in biology and environmental studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.S. in biological sciences from Northern Arizona University.