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Sara Kross
Mar 1, 20241 min read
Welcome Ava!
Ava is investigating the impacts of urbanization on pollinators and the critical ecosystem services they provide. She is part of the 2024...
Sara Kross
Feb 18, 20242 min read
Heavy migration traffic and bad weather are a dangerous combination: Bird collisions in New York City (new paper!)
A new publication from our lab on the factors that drive bird collisions with buildings in NYC.
Sara Kross
Nov 25, 20221 min read
Duck, duck, goose!
Eric Schertler is back in the field again this winter- working to monitor the overwintering communities of waterfowl on ponds and small...
Sara Kross
Sep 22, 20221 min read
In the news: Our work on wildlife in NYC
Our work on understanding wildlife ecology in NYC was covered by Kevin Krajick in the State of the Planet Blog. "Scientists Are Mapping...
Sara Kross
Sep 12, 20221 min read
NYC Wildlife transect featured in State of the Planet
Myles Davis and Laura Plimpton have been busy in the field this summer- monitoring wildlife across the city (Myles) and tracking raccoons...
Sara Kross
May 18, 20221 min read
Congrats Grads!
It was so lovely to celebrate our 2022 graduates from the E3B Masters program at Columbia. This year's graduating class included 8...
Sara Kross
Apr 1, 20221 min read
NYC's first wildlife monitoring network
This year, Myles Davis worked with Sara, Maria Diuk-Wasser, NYC Parks, Gotham Coyote, and others to establish the first wildlife...
Sara Kross
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Urban Ecology in the Heights
Students from E3B (including the Kross lab) have started an Environmental Justice and Urban Ecology Summer Research Program with the...
Sara Kross
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Cat Scat Reveals the secret lives of NYC felines
Laura Plimpton's paper: Use of molecular scatology to assess the diet of feral cats living in urban colonies has been accepted at the...
Sara Kross
Jun 14, 20211 min read
New paper on tick sampling methods
Daniel Mathisson's review paper (co-authored by Sara Kross); Effect of vegetation on the abundance of tick vectors in the Northeastern...
Sara Kross
Mar 18, 20201 min read
Congratulations Jason!
Congratulations Jason Hagani for receiving a Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Catskill Research Fellowship. Jason's project, Reducing...
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