Meet The Team

 Kirsten is a community ecologist interested in how invasions, climate change, and land-use change impact diversity, species interactions, and ecosystem functions in insect communities. She also works on solutions for managing interactions and tasks in impacted ecosystems. Her fieldwork takes place in several ecosystems, including oak savannas and temperate forests. Kirsten is passionate about public education and community involvement in science, especially about spreading the word about the importance of the "little things that run the world!" (or insects!).

Christina is an ecologist who studies how human-caused changes like climate change, pollution, and introduced species influence how plants, insects, and other animals interact with each other and the environment. Through the First-year Research Immersion Program, she teaches new college students how to do ecology research, and a lot of their projects are based in the Nature Preserve.

Christina spends a lot of time on iNaturalist helping people identify caterpillars and is coordinating the EcoBlitz on iNaturalist. To contact her on iNaturalist, use @bugbaer. 

Aly is a PhD candidate at Binghamton University. She is a community ecologist interested in the effects of anthropogenic change on species interaction. Specifically Aly looks at how multi-tropic plant-insect interactions are altered under poleward range expansions.

Julian is a senior at Binghamton University majoring in Biology, with a minor in chemistry. He is the president of Binghamton University's chapter of the national Audubon Society, a student organization focused on the study and conservation of birds. Julian often spends his time wandering the nature preserve, and is looking forward to the opportunity to teach others about nature.

Angie is an sophomore dual majoring in Italian and Environmental Science, with an ecosystems concentration, and an Education minor. She is the PR Director of Zero Hour Binghamton, an environmental justice organization on campus that works for a just and greener world in the Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City areas.