She is broadly interested in bridging the gap between research science and land management, and has worked to this end in many ecosystem types including desert, savanna and forest.
in 2011 from a joint program between Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. in 2017 from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.S. Emily Booth is a plant ecologist specializing in fire ecology. His research interests include investigating the role of herbivores as ecosystem engineers and specifically their role in driving shifts in tree community dynamics in tropical forest ecosystems.ĭr. Since initiating his first research project in the littoral forests of Madagascar in 1997, Matthew has advocated community-based approaches to research and is interested in increasing the network of local research professionals in northern Madagascar where the Sewall Lab is currently studying the mutualistic networks that characterize plant-frugivore interactions at Ankarana National Park. He spent over five years conducting research in these isolated habitats and training the first teams of wildlife stewards to staff the newly gazetted 85,000 haĪndrafiamena-Andavakoera Forest Corridor, a hotspot for the critically endangered Perrier’s sifaka (Propithecus perrieri) and other high priority flora and fauna for conservation, including members of one of Madagascar’s endemic tree families, the Sarcolaenaceae. Matthew recently received his PhD from Stony Brook University in physical anthropology where he focused his doctoral research on the effects of human activities and naturally-occurring ecological variation on the diurnal primate communities in forest fragments in the extreme north of Madagascar, including patterns of 1) abundance and distribution and 2) species richness at the population-level. Matthew Banks is a Research Assistant Professor in the lab specializing in non-human primate behavioral ecology.
in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota, and a B.A. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis, an M.S. Sewall was a Research Assistant Professor at Temple and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology at the College of William and Mary. Davis Merton Love Award for best dissertation in ecology and evolution, and Temple University’s William Caldwell Memorial Distinguished Mentoring Award. Hornaday Award for outstanding contributions to mammal conservation, the U.C. He has received the American Society of Mammalogists’ William T. Sewall is also providing technical advice on ecology and conservation to the Pennsylvania Mammal Technical Committee and the White-Nose Syndrome Response Team. His work has focused on cave, forest, and grassland communities in eastern North America and tropical sub-Saharan Africa, including in both intact and human-dominated ecosystems. Ongoing work focuses on understanding threats to North American hibernating bats caused by the emerging infectious disease known as white-nose syndrome identifying and addressing critical threats to tropical and temperate biodiversity and understanding factors underpinning the resilience of ecological communities. The goal of his research is to understand and address critical and emerging threats to biodiversity and to develop effective strategies for conservation. Brent Sewall is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Temple University.
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