Excited to assume the role of Chair of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group! 🌱 Threats to all four tapir species demand action. Grateful to Patricia Medici for 25 years of inspiring leadership & excited to collaborate with our global network to scale conservation! #Tapirs #IUCN #Biodiversity

🌿 An honor to present at UC Berkeley's Wildlife Seminar where I talked about the use of AI + species distribution models to study agriculture's impacts on wildlife and One Health.

Thanks @ornithoale.bsky.social for hosting me!

#Wildlife #Tapirs #OneHealth #AIinConservation #UCBerkeley

Very excited to connect with the Berkeley wildlife community tomorrow and share my work on tapirs, expansion of vector-borne diseases, and One Health!
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#Biodiversity #AI #Nature #OneHealth #Climate #Tapirs #DiseaseEcology #Screwworm #Conservation #CameraTraps

Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
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Introductory post! I’m an ecologist who applies quantitative methods to study wildlife in disturbed areas. Challenging myself to go beyond quantifying species’ response to the environment, to developing ecosystem-scale experiments to identify effective conservation actions.