Background
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I arrived a bit late to the wonderful world of ecology. I was, however, lucky enough to start studying birds as an undergraduate at Connecticut College (under the tutelage of Bob Askins), and went on to get my Masters from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After spending several years studying birds in the field, I became interested in how the environment influences bird populations at geographic scales. I received my Ph.D. from SUNY-ESF where I focused on studying range shifts in bird distributions as a consequence of climate change. I got hooked, and then spent three great years as a postdoc and research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2011 and it’s been a wild ride working with great collaborators and building a lab focused on studying how modern climate change impacts birds and mammals. I remain a strong advocate for the role of the public in collecting data on wildlife and feel that citizen science has opened entirely new fields in ecological research. Although I enjoy all the natural beauty and craft beers of Wisconsin, I am a New Yorker at heart and remain a diehard Yanks, Knicks, and Giants fan.
Contact Information
Benjamin Zuckerberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
226 Russell Labs
1630 Linden Drive; Rm. 213
Madison, WI 53706-1598
Email: bzuckerberg[at]wisc.edu
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Curriculum vitae
Education
- Connecticut College; B.A. in Zoology, 1998
- University of Massachusetts-Amherst; M.S. in Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation, 2002
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Ph.D. in Ecology, 2008
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Research Associate, 2008-2011
Affiliations
- Chair, Wildlife Working Group, Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts
- Affiliate Member, Center for Climatic Research (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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