Toni Androski, Phd

Mammalogy Collections Manager

Toni is a mammalogist and evolutionary biologist who earned her PhD from the University of New Mexico (UNM). As a graduate student at UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, she co-led multiple trips to Southeast Alaska and Canada in collaboration with governmental agencies and the University of Kansas. She has also spent time in the field in New Mexico and Panama, and worked on projects to bridge the gap between natural history collections and public health research. Her doctoral research focused on the phylogeography and systematics of shrews in western North America and the conservation of endemic mammals in Southeast Alaska.