Jamie Palmer

About

Jamie is a biologist and technician for the Institute of Conservation Medicine (ICM). Her interests are in wildlife health and conservation medicine. Jamie is the lab and field technician for ICM programs in Missouri and abroad. Her main research focuses are the St. Louis Box Turtle Project, studying the health and movement patterns of box turtles in Missouri, and more recently aquatic turtle turtle health in Missouri. Jamie has been with the Zoo for 15+ years and with the ICM since February, 2013.  The ICM team focuses their work on wildlife health issues as they fit into a conservation medicine/One Health framework, including the connections between wildlife conservation and human/ecosystem health.