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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.
Olga Calderón is a professor of Biology and Microbiology at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate School and University Center in Science…
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,…
Zihao Wang is a botanist affiliated with NYC Parks. Zihao says, “As an immigrant to the U.S., observing local nature and identifying plants is my way of making…
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 Adrienne Brundage is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Entomology at Texas A&M University. She is an award-winning educator and a board certified forensic entomologist with expertise in…
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…
Dr James Lendemer is a lichenologist and Associate Curator, Institute of Systematic Botany, at the New York Botanical Garden. Check out both of our Lichen Virtual Taxon Leaders in…
Dr Gautam Surya is a scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, working on a variety of climate adaptation and conservation planning projects around the world (e.g. Afghanistan, Cameroon,…
Dr Jessica Allen is a biologist at Eastern Washington University specializing in lichens. She is the co-discoverer of three species of lichen, including Japewiella dollypartoniana (Dolly’s Dots) and…
Dr M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid is a biologist at Bridgewater State University. The Van Cortlandt Park BioBlitz will be her eight Macaulay BioBlitz. Caitlin says, “I am a herpetologist,…
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…
Dr Caroline Devan is an ecologist and bee specialist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
