Category: TL26

Grecia De La Cruz Melo Torres

Grecia De La Cruz Melo Torres is the Urban Advantage Manager at Staten Island Zoo, where she connects students, teachers, and families with hands-on science learning and conservation…

Brandon Ely

Dr. Brandon Ely just finished his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College. His doctoral research focused on genomics and transmission cycle dynamics…

Gabriella Quartuccia

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…

Jacqueline Liang

I am a Queens native with an interest in birds and nature photography. I have previously worked at the American Museum of Natural History and the New York…

Molly Rouzie

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

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…

Theodore Muth

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…

Christian Liriano

Christian Liriano is a student at CUNY and a freelance field biologist. His research interests are the habitat ecology/taxonomy of understudied organisms from northeastern North America (e.g., spiders,…

M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid

Dr M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid is a biologist at Bridgewater State University. The Willowbook Park BioBlitz will be her tenth Macaulay BioBlitz. Caitlin says, “I am a herpetologist, someone…

Seth Wollney

Seth Wollney is a New York native with interests ranging from dragonflies to birds and everything in-between. He currently teaches biology courses at the College of Staten Island…