Hull Lab University of California, Davis

Sara Kross, Ph.D.​

Director of the Masters Program
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B)

 

Research Interests:

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I am a conservation biologist interested in human-modified landscapes, ecosystem services, human-wildlife conflicts, predator-prey dynamics, species translocations, and behavioral ecology. My students and I have mainly worked in agricultural systems (I tweet from @wildfarms) where we have studied the ecosystem services and disservices from songbirds on row crops such as alfalfa, the diet of barn owls in mixed crop systems, the effects of on-farm habitat for avian diversity, and our current projects in the Hull Lab investigating rodenticide exposure in barn owls and the natural history of American kestrels in mixed farming and natural habitats. I am currently the Director of the Masters program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at Columbia University in New York City where, in addition to my collaborations with the Hull Lab, I work with students on projects that vary from urban cat effects on the ecology of Lyme disease, to using historic aerial photos to assess snow goose populations in the Arctic.