November 2021 Northeastern Evolutionary Primatologists (NEEP) Annual Conference
Boston University, Boston, MA
Podium Presentation: Socio- and cognitive ecology of zoologically-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): Spacing and behavior as a function of resource distribution
May 2020 *Invited Symposium Talk – Conference CANCELLED due to COVID-19
American Society of Primatologists Annual Conference
American Society of Primatologists Interdisciplinary Symposium
Contemporary Primatological Research in Zoos: Creative, Comparative, and Collaborative
Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) socio-spatial and behavioral changes in response to resource distribution
September 2019 Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Annual Conference
Poster: Socioecology of zoologically-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): measuring social spacing and the introduction of an artificial “termite” mound
Poster (2nd author): Social Spacing in Captive Western Lowland Gorillas During Reproductive Period
March 2019 South Eastern Evolution and Human Behavior (SEEHB) Meeting
Talk: Socioecology and cognitive ecology of zoologically-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla); spacing and behavior as a function of resource distribution
September 2019 Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Annual Conference
Poster: Swinging Down from the Ivory Tower: Research and Scientific Learning in
Zoological Institutions
August 2018 Animal Behavior Society’s 55th Annual Conference
Talk: Persistence in extractive foraging: Comparing humans and tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)
August 2016 Joint Meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists
Poster: Human voice recognition in zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
April 2016 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Conference
Poster: A fecal nutritional stable isotope analysis of wild capuchin monkey (Sapajus libidinosus) diet
August 2015 European Federation of Primatology Conference (Rome, Italy)
Talk: Compound grip in tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp)
September 2014 American Society of Primatologist’s Annual Conference
Poster: Compound grip in tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp)
August 2014 Animal Behavior Society Annual Conference
Poster: Compound grip on tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp)
August 2012 Animal Behavior Society Annual Conference
Poster: North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) Exposure to Novel Objects
August 2011 Indiana University CISAB Conference
Poster: Learning, Imitation, and Time Expenditure Frequencies in North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis)