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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 Prospect Park BioBlitz will be her seventh Macaulay BioBlitz. Caitlin says, “I am a herpetologist, someone…
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.
