Logan Kline
She/Her
I am bi and I am a wildlife technologist.//
I like to say I stumbled my way into STEM. I had no intentions on being a researcher until my second year in undergrad, when I started working for a wetland ecology lab. Sifting through soil and conducting lab work was interesting, but I was missing a crucial component that would have hooked me; I wanted to be working with animals. I had the immense privilege to take part in the NOAA Hollings scholarship, which gave me this first step in connecting my budding relationship with research to my passion for wildlife. Working for NOAA in Woods Hole, MA, I studied whale and vessel acoustics for two years and discovered that my true research love was investigating how technology can be used to conserve and protect wildlife.
As a bisexual woman in STEM with a cishet partner, I am constantly exploring how I fit into queer spaces. My own erasure of my identity as “not queer enough” has impacted how I feel about my presence in the LGBTQ+ umbrella. I’ve recently taken steps to increasing my visibility and securing my spot in these spaces, through writing my story here and presenting at LGBTQ+ conferences!