Kaitlin Mattos is a 2009 graduate of the Environmental Studies program at WashU working to gain experience in the fields of ecology, environmental research and conservation. After completing a senior honors thesis in the Orrock lab on the effect of invasive plants on native rodent behavior and seed predation, she decided to reverse her focus and examine the effects of invasive rodents on native plants in the Mariana Islands. She is now working on the NSF-funded Ecology of Avian Loss project in the Mariana Islands with the Tewksbury lab from the University of Washington and studying differences in rodent seed predation across islands, funded by an REU grant. Her career interests broadly include understanding human-caused aspects of environmental change and integrating research, education and community outreach efforts to solve conservation problems.