When Science Bites Back!

Speakers

Moderator

Joshua Ginsberg, PhD

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joshua Ginsberg was born and raised in New York and is currently Senior Vice President, Global Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society where he oversees an $90 million portfolio of conservation initiatives in 60 countries around the world.  He spent 15 years working as a field biologist in Thailand and across East and Southern Africa leading a variety of mammal ecology and conservation projects.

Speakers

Alexandra Horowitz, PhD

Barnard College

Alexandra Horowitz has been teaching at Barnard since 2004. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at Hunter College and at the University of California — San Diego.Professor Horowitz's research is in animal cognition. She is currently testing the olfactory acuity of the domestic dog, through experiments in natural settings, and examining dog-human dyadic play behavior.

Oscar Pineda-Catalan, PhD

American Museum of Natural History

Dr.Oscar Pineda-Catalan was born in Mexico City where he did his undergraduate studies in Biomedical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. After finishing his studies, he enrolled in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History where he studied turtles in the Amazon.

Diana Reiss, PhD

Hunter College

Diana Reiss is a professor of psychology at Hunter College and in the graduate program of Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience of the City University of New York. Reiss's research has focused on understanding cognition and communication in dolphins and other cetaceans. She has done work in mirror self-recognition of such animals, as well as in elephants. She was the scientific advisor for The Cove  and wrote The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives.