Please check out my new website: www.bassinglabecology.org for updates and current research activities!

I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Quantitative Ecology in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University. I earned my PhD (2022) in Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington and my MS (2017) and BS (2008) in Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana. My research interests stem from a background in carnivore ecology, species interactions, wildlife conservation, and quantitative ecology. My fieldwork and research have taken me to amazing parts of the western US, Canada, and even French Polynesia, to work with species ranging from gray wolves to red-footed boobies. 

I am collaborating with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to study predator interactions in northern Idaho. I am using camera traps and quantitative methods to understand how species interactions structure predator communities. Prior to my current work, my research focused on the spatial and temporal patterns of predator-prey interactions among wildlife species in eastern Washington and how hunting and trapping affect wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

I’d love to hear from you! Email me at sarah.bassing [at] montana.edu and follow me on BlueSky @sbassing.bsky.social. I post code on GitHub. My Google Scholar profile can be found here. Please see www.bassinglabecology.org for more up-to-date materials and information.