Researchers
Principal Investigator
Dr. Elie Gurarie is a professor of quantitative wildlife ecology in the Department of Environmental Biology at SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Dr. Gurarie develops novel approaches to understanding complex ecological processes, with a particular interest in animal movements, behaviors, space-use, cognition and links to populations and demography. After extensive field experience studying marine mammals in the North Pacific and wolves in Finland (and dabbling in dozens of other systems, Dr. Gurarie has turned much of his focus to barren-ground caribou.
Graduate Researcher
Megan Perra is a PhD student in the Gurarie lab interested in how caribou respond to sound, and what we can learn by listening to them. She completed her masters at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she studied caribou auditory physiology and the soundscapes of the Arctic Coastal Plain. Currently, she is leading audiologger testing and deployments.