Forestry & Natural Resources
Bee Overbey To Speak at Trinity Fusion
Bee Overbey, a research fellow and PhD student in the Purdue department of Forestry and Natural Resources, will be speaking as the June Fusion storyteller at Trinity Fusion on Monday, June 15 at 6 p.m.
Overbey will be sharing her journey to Purdue FNR, as well as about her current research and her work with leopards, apes, black bears and many other species in over 20 years in wildlife conservation and care. She also will be sharing about how people can connect with themselves, their communities and spirituality through nature.
Overbey completed her undergraduate degree from Purdue in 2005. She also has two previous graduate degrees, one from Keller Graduate School (2011, in human resources management with an emphasis in training and development) and one from Miami Ohio (2019, in biology with an emphasis in extension).
As a PhD fellow in wildlife science, she is being co-advised by Drs. Doug Jacobs and Barny Dunning. She is working with the Tropical HTIRC lab and is the first wildlifer to be recruited to that lab. She is studying the role that native birds play in forest restoration.
In her career, Overbey has worked in both lab and field research as well as veterinary technology, zookeeping, entomology and outreach programming. She also has held roles as operations manager and director of public relations for various non-profits.
In addition to speaking on Monday, Overbey also will be bringing free vegetables from Grow Local, the community garden.
Featured Stories
AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data
Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud...
FNR Names 2025 Alumni, Career Award Recipients
The Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources has named the recipients of its five...
test post
test post summary
FNR Shares Most Read Stories of 2025
2025 was a productive year for Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources across the three land grant...
Why Spring Start was the right beginning
Raised in Greentown, Indiana, a town just east of Kokomo, Hunter Foland grew up surrounded by...
Research uses radar to expose sky’s organized, living habitat
When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few...