Anna Soccorsi

I am an aspiring wildlife ecologist interested in studying how human development and subsequent habitat fragmentation influence carnivore movement, behavior and conservation.

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I recently received my M.A. degree from Columbia University in the Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B) Department. For my thesis research, I deployed motion-activated camera traps to better understand how smaller mammalian carnivores (i.e., mesocarnivores), including coyote, red fox, gray fox and bobcat, are spatially and temporally responding to varying levels of human disturbance. This project took place near Newburgh, NY in close partnership with my research advisor, Dr. Scott LaPoint, and Black Rock Forest.