Journal of Animal Ecology.Alex founded one of the first, and largest, Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, SmartThings, in 2012. A methodological roadmap to quantify animal-mediated nutrient subsidies. Conservation Science and Practice.Įllis-Soto, D.,* K.M. Challenges facing cross-disciplinary collaboration in conservation ethics. Conservation Science and Practice.įerraro, K.M., A.L. An ethical framework for behavioural training in wildlife management. Effects of ungulate density and sociality on landscape heterogeneity: a mechanistic modeling approach.
What do caribou eat? A review of the literature on caribou diet. U nderstanding anthropogenic impacts on zoogeochemistry is essential for ecological restoration. Within these plots we measured soil and nutrient dynamics to understand the ecosystem services provided by these frugivores and to evaluate the possible effects of local and regional extinction.Ībraham, A., E. Local extinction events have created forest patches of presence and absence, which we used as natural exclosure and enclosure plots. Vanderbilt University, USA (2016-2018) – For my master’s thesis, I worked with Professor Malu Jorge to investigate the role of the white-lipped peccary within the Cerrado of Brazil. While there, I conducted a high-resolution independent temperature reconstruction for the Late Glacial and Holocene using chironomid (non-biting midge) remains as a proxy. Fulbright Program I spend a year working with paleoecologist Dr. University of Bern, CH (2015-2016) – Through funding awarded by the U.S. Holly Vande Wall investigating the ethics of animal use by humans using the framework of Benthian Utilitarianism. In addition, I conducted a Philosophy Thesis with Dr. This work ultimately provided evidence of the Chelford Interstadial, a brief warm period in Great Britain during the Late Pleistocene.
Upon returning to Boston College in the fall of 2014, I used this research to conduct an Environmental Science Thesis. Eva Panagiotakopulu’s lab (Edinbrugh, UK) where we sought to reconstruct the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of Cheshire, UK using beetle remains.
Boston College, USA and the University of Edinburgh, UK (2014-2015) – Throughout the summer of 2014, I worked in Dr. Conservation is inherently ethical, requiring conservationists to navigate morally difficult situations. A s humans continue to alter ecosystems, creating conservation programs that work for people and animals is vital. Īdditionally I am interested in helping develop rigorous philosophical frameworks which can be used by practicing conservationists to conduct conservation ethically. As northern ecosystems change due to climate change, and ungulate populations dwindle, I hope to help illuminate the role of these animals within northern ecosystems. Working in both the Schmitz lab and the Bradford lab at Yale my dissertation aims to untangle the effects of caribou, elk, pronghorn, white-tailed deer, and other large herbivores soils and nutrient cycles. More specifically, I explore the impact of ungulates on soil dynamics, nutrient cycles, nutrient transfer, and carbon storage. I am interested in the ecosystem services provided by large mammals and how the impacts of local extinction or changes in migratory behavior may alter ecosystem dynamics.
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