Dr. Beth Gardner is representative of the Trinity Tradition. As a high schooler, she led the varsity tennis team and served as an executive officer for the National Honor Society, class officer, editor of the yearbook, and captain of her highly successful debate team. Thereafter, she entered the field of statistical ecology and has positively affected both science and medicine. She currently works as the University of Washington’s Director of the Center for Quantitative Sciences in Seattle, and as an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. She has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications and wrote Spatial Capture-Recapture, a book cited over 700 times. An expert in the field, she is an associate editor for a large, peer-reviewed journal, and serves on the organizing and scientific committees of national and international conferences, as well as on multiple scientific advisory boards.

Over the last 10 years, Dr. Gardner has taught more than 1000 undergraduate students, advised numerous undergraduate research projects, served as a member of 40 graduate student committees, and mentored 7 post-doctoral researchers. As an individual interested in ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion at the university level, she is the faculty mentor for the Women in Science programs.