Creative Conservation Science

People and Wildlife

Our team work on understanding, managing and enhancing the interactions between people and wildlife in human-dominated systems like cities, suburbs, and farms.

Conservation Challenges

We tackle conservation challenges from new perspectives. Read about our current efforts on Conservation Funding and Rapid Assessments. 

Education and Outreach

Learn about our school-based and online education programs, ask one of us to speak to your corporate or industry group, Or, come birding with us.

News

March 2021
We had an awesome conversation with Maya Higa- watch this space for news about science education collaboration in the future.
October 2020
Our team was awarded a Diversity Initiative Grant from the Columbia Arts and Sciences Graduate Council for our project- E3Birders: The Manhattan Naturalists- seed funding to create K-12 education program for outdoor education in NYC Parks. Our team will take classes on walks in local parks to teach kids about urban wildlife, climate change, invasive species, and other conservation topics relevant to the management of parks. If you are an educator in NYC and interested in a nature-based education experience for your class in a local park, please email smk2258@columbia.edu. We will give priority to schools in northern manhattan (north of 100th st).
August 2020
Congratulations Sarah Trabue for receiving a 2020 Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship from the  Hudson River Foundation! Sarah's project Photo-Identification and Skin Lesion Prevalence of Bottlenose Dolphins in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary is supervised by Howard Rosenbaum and Mindy Rekdahl at WCS.
July 2020
Breanna Martinico and Sara Kross presented our barn owl work at the Society for Conservation Biology's North American Conference on Conservation Biology and at the North American Ornithological Conference.
March 2020
Congratulations Jason Hagani for receiving a Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Catskill Research Fellowship. Jason's project, Reducing Human-Black Bear Interactions in the Catskills through the Improved Education of Transient Visitors is supervised  by Sara Kross in collaboration with Larry Bifaro, Matthew Merchant, Michael Clark, and Jeremy Hurst from the NY Department of Environmental Conservation.