Dr. Christine Fortuin

Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Conservation

Mississippi State University

319 Thompson Hall
775 Stone Blvd.
Mississippi State, MS 39762
United States

(w) (662) 325-0282

About

Christine Fortuin is an assistant professor of natural resource conservation at Mississippi State University in the Forestry Department. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the forest entomology and forest biometrics labs at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, where she also obtained her PhD. Prior to that she worked for over a decade with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pesticides section, where she was a pollinator and endangered species protection specialist. She attended Florida International University for her Master’s program, where she studied Africanized honeybees and stingless bees in the Yucatan region of Mexico. Her research interests center around the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances and environmental contaminates on beneficial invertebrates and ecosystem services in forest systems.