Former researchers

The aim of my MSc in Conservation Ecology was to develop a large set of skills in conservation. As such, even if I’ve studied rehabilitation, social behaviour and feeding ecology of primates before (always in regard to their conservation), I am now doing my master thesis on primates extinction risk. We are more precisely looking at the impacts of anthropic pressures, as roads, on primate conservation status. Our study takes place at a global scale, and involve every species of primates.

I'm a master's student conducting the thesis "The influence of roads on the structure and composition of invertebrate communities". With this project, I'm trying to understand the impacts of roads on invertebrate communities, particularly ants, by comparing the differences in each community at different distances from the road.

We are students from Staten Island Technical High School. Dr. Fernando Ascensão is mentoring us, on a study on the effect of roads on the occurrence of songbird populations. We have been gathering data on birds at different distance intervals from the road. We started this project after noticing the negative effects of roads and traffic on the wildlife of Staten Island. Specifically, on major routes we noticed lots of roadkill ranging from deer to squirrels to songbirds. After observing the extent of harmful impacts of roads on our local wildlife we decided to gain further insight by researching how bird populations are specifically affected.