Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2026-2027

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Research Summary: Humans have wide-ranging impacts on wildlife, yet human activity is highly variable in space and time which has strong impacts on how wildlife respond to disturbance. Therefore, measuring variability in human activity is critical to enacting effective conservation action. My work brings together stakeholders from various public and private partners to move conservation objectives forward for endangered and threatened carnivores such as wolverines in Colorado, cougars in California, and ocelots in Texas. Using novel tools such as human mobility data, I study how mammals respond to human disturbance, aimed at identifying mechanisms for human-wildlife coexistence in a changing world.

Mentor: George Wittemyer