Biography
Dr. Kyle Shaney
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
Division of Environmental Biology
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Class of 2024-2026
Dr. Kyle Shaney specializes in biodiversity science, global change biology, natural resource management, conservation, and biogeography. His studies have focused on topics like endangered species conservation and restoration, the description of new species in poorly explored regions, illegal wildlife trafficking, and the geography of zoonotic diseases in wild animal populations. Shaney has worked in some of the world's most remote regions, including parts of Alaska, Mexico, Bolivia, and Indonesia. He completed his doctorate at The University of Texas at Arlington with Eric Smith and Todd Castoe and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City with Ella Vazquez Dominquez. Shaney also worked in other natural resource management capacities, including as a wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management. He currently holds a tenure track faculty position in the department of biological and health sciences at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and was previously recognized as a National Geographic Young Explorer. In addition to research and teaching, he has been involved in a variety of capacity-building projects and plans to continue that work domestically and internationally in the future.