My name is Anna Nisi and I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels at the University of Washington. I aim to understand how large, highly mobile predators coexist with people in human-dominated landscapes and seascapes and apply that information to develop conservation solutions. My research spans marine and terrestrial systems. For my postdoc at the University of Washington, I am modeling great whale distributions in order to map ship-strike risk across the world’s oceans, at both global and regional scales. During my PhD at UC Santa Cruz, I studied how habitat fragmentation impacts puma (Puma concolor) movement ecology and population dynamics.
Interests
Quantitative ecology
Applied conservation research
Human-dominated environments
Marine and terrestrial predators
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA
PhD in Environmental Studies, 2015-2021
Carleton College | Northfield, MN
BA in Biology, 2010-2014
