Research Interests:

• Human-wildlife interactions & coexistence
• Transboundary conservation of large mammals
• Risk perceptions and behavior of wild mammals
• Flooded forests especially mangroves as refuges for threatened species
• Wildlife trade policies and politics
• Citizen science and participatory conservation

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PROJECTS

Mountain Goat Molt Project 

​2018 - present

Developing and leading a participatory science project on the coat molt patterns and phenology of mountain goats. Relating their winter coat shedding to thermal change across their range, from Colorado to Alaska and the Yukon. Remote camera-trapping to fill a photo gap at their northern range extent (all photos in the above slideshow from the southern Yukon, summer 2018).

citizen science web portals
CitSci.org
iNaturalist

project Facebook page
Mountain Goat Molt Project
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blogs
Little Goatherd Mountain
These elusive alpinists drink at night, Part I
These elusive alpinists drink at night, Part II


media coverage
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
When mountain goats molt could shed secrets about how they adapt to climate change

The Revelator
Climate change really gets this researcher's goat

iNaturalist
Mountain goat molts, iNat photos, and climate change
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Risk, Fear and Cognition in Samango Monkeys 
2013 - 2017
Field experiments carried out at two Afromontane forest sites in South Africa to quantify risk perceived by samango monkeys in response to natural predators and humans. 

media coverage
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IFLScience!
Monkeys Use Researchers as Human Shields

Mongabay
Monkeys use field scientists as human shields against predators
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Scientific American
Know the Jargon: “Human Shield Effect”

Southern Tanzania Elephant Program
2008 - present
Elephant conservation research project focused on mitigating negative interactions between people and elephants, surveying and monitoring elephant populations, and developing anti-poaching and conservation capacity in southern Tanzania.​

media coverage
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IDEA WILD
A Tight Squeeze for Udzungwa Elephants

​our popular articles

The Conversation
​Beehive fences and elephants: Tanzania case study offers fresh insights


​Africa Geographic
Rebuilding a Bond
​Mountain Elephants

Behavioral Flexibility of Zanzibar Red Colobus in Unprotected Coastal Forests 
2002 - 2007
PhD fieldwork on endangered red colobus monkeys at two unprotected coastal forest sites in Zanzibar. Conducted line transect surveys, demographic monitoring of focal groups, behavioral observations, and vegetation sampling.

media coverage
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Princeton University
Where the wild things go…when there’s nowhere else

Mongabay
Endangered primates and cats may be hiding out in swamps and mangrove forests
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ScienceDaily
Monkey nation: Mainland Africa's most important nation for primates
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Phys.org
​Study confirms wealth of primates in Tanzania