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Isabella Torres is an environmental educator with a bachelor’s degree in Geosciences from Eckerd College. Most of her experience with wildlife surrounds New York Harbor and Tampa Bay….
Nic Comparato is a wildlife scientist specializing in bats and bioacoustics. They are an associate field biologist at NYC Bird Alliance and a PhD Student with the Aronson Lab…
Andrew Cannon is an amateur mycologist and long time member of the New York Mycological Society. He has studied fungi since 2008, with a particular interest in phytopathogenic…
Dr. Gabriella Quartuccia is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Steven Franks’ lab at Fordham University, where she studies rice adaptation to drought. Her research interests are: species evolution…
Jeremy is a graduate student at CUNY studying lichens, which are important indicators of habitat and air quality. He is researching why some species are able to grow…
Jacqueline Liang is currently a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, working in the cultural halls. In her free time, she is a wildlife photographer with…
Molly Nash Rouzie leads plant walks for Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and is currently teaching botany at NYBG’s School of Professional Horticulture. Molly is also a council member of…
Zeke King Phillips is a PhD Candidate in Geosciences at the University of Cincinnati where he studies the dietary habits of terrestrial land snails. He can most often…
I am an assistant professor at UConn Stamford and have done urban population genetic research on salamanders and squirrels to see how urbanization affects native wildlife in the…
I am an active urban naturalist and currently an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden. I am past President of the Linnaean Society of New York.
My lab focuses on the study of urban microbial communities, and we have lead a national initiative to provide research experiences for undergraduate students in exploring complex microbiomes…
Nickolas Dubin is a Queens-native Naturalist and Queens College Masters Student, with a background in Geology. He teaches both ecology and geology labs at Queens College, and specializes…
I’m Eli, I work on the lichens of the Appalachian Mountains at the New York Botanical Garden.
Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) is an urban naturalist and avid iNaturalist user (@xris) based in Brooklyn. Aside from their habitat garden, their “local patch” is Prospect Park.
Ansel Oommen, CASAC-T, MLS(ASCP)CM is a credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor trainee, horticultural therapist trainee, licensed and board certified medical laboratory scientist, and graduate entomology student studying…
Dr Megan Wilson is an entomologist at Rutgers specializing in termites. She is a member of the Jessica L. Ware Lab at the American Museum of Natural History….
Dr Kelly O’Donnell is a plant evolutionary ecologist and Director of Science Forward at Macaulay Honors College. She has served as the scientific director of all ten of…
Dr Jessica Ware is Assistant Curator in Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History and director of the Jessica L. Ware Lab of Entomology, Evolution, Systematics…
Dr Peter Park is an evolutionary ichthyologist at Farmingdale State College. He is a longtime leader at Macaulay’s BioBlitzes and conducts numerous fish-related community science events throughout New…
Craig Trester is a mycologist focused on educating residents of the New York City area about the benefits that fungi have for our health, environment, and society. Check…
