Wildlife

Sara Kross

Kea Conservation x Skiing: Tracking feral cats and mustelids using camera traps

We worked with the Kea Conservation Trust and NZ Ski to assess the risks to Kea from introduced mammalian predators on Ōpuke/Mt Hutt. The...

Sara Kross

Welcome Ava!

Ava is investigating the impacts of urbanization on pollinators and the critical ecosystem services they provide. She is part of the 2024...

Sara Kross

Heavy migration traffic and bad weather are a dangerous combination: Bird collisions in New York City (new paper!)

A new publication from our lab on the factors that drive bird collisions with buildings in NYC.

Sara Kross

Course-based biodiversity monitoring at Te Kaio

Sara co-led a 3rd year ecology course this term at the University of Canterbury that included a multi-day field trip focused on...

Sara Kross

In the news: Our work on wildlife in NYC

Our work on understanding wildlife ecology in NYC was covered by Kevin Krajick in the State of the Planet Blog. "Scientists Are Mapping...

Sara Kross

NYC Wildlife transect featured in State of the Planet

Myles Davis and Laura Plimpton have been busy in the field this summer- monitoring wildlife across the city (Myles) and tracking raccoons...

Sara Kross

Hailey and the Honu

Hailey Arango was in the 'field' this summer- in Hawai'i! She's was working with the Center for Marine Debris Research at the National...

Sara Kross

Cover owl

Our paper, 'Banding records of nestling barn owls reveal optimal timing for nest box maintenance in California' was published AND...

Sara Kross

Congrats Grads!

It was so lovely to celebrate our 2022 graduates from the E3B Masters program at Columbia. This year's graduating class included 8...

Sara Kross

NYC's first wildlife monitoring network

This year, Myles Davis worked with Sara, Maria Diuk-Wasser, NYC Parks, Gotham Coyote, and others to establish the first wildlife...

Sara Kross

New paper models human-black bear conflict in NY's Catskills mountains

Jason Hagani published his paper on Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using...

Sara Kross

Congratulations Jason!

Congratulations Jason Hagani for receiving a Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Catskill Research Fellowship. Jason's project, Reducing...