Matea Djokic

Matea Djokic holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Irvine where she studied the microbiomes of western mosquitofish and three species of marine silversides. She also holds a master’s degree in Fish and Wildlife Management from Montana State University where she studied nonlethal tools to assess the health of juvenile pallid sturgeon in the Upper Basin of the Missouri River. Prior to her graduate studies, Matea was a fisheries intern for South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks in Ft. Pierre, SD where she conducted creel surveys, routine population sampling of local Missouri River reaches, and participated in the Lake Oahe Chinook salmon spawning program.

Matea has experience using a variety of sampling techniques to capture both freshwater and marine fishes including boat electrofishing, trammel nets, trot lines, trawls, gillnets, hook-and-line, dip and cast netting, trapping, and snorkel surveys. She also has extensive fish surgical, phlebotomy, and laboratory husbandry experience, a background in statistics including bioinformatics and multivariate statistics using R and QIIME2, and experience conducting metabolic rate experiments.