Stories by Katarzyna Nowak

Katarzyna Nowak is a mostly itinerant conservation scientist, currently a fellow with The Safina Center, New York and a Research Associate of the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa campus, South Africa. She is interested in the behavioral flexibility of wild mammals and in improving human-wildlife co-existence and has studied African primates and elephants in coastal and Afromontane forests of Tanzania and South Africa. She is now developing a citizen science and photography project on the phenology (timing) of winter coat molt in the Rocky Mountain goat in relation to climatic warming. She grew up in Poland, Germany, and the U.S. and earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, U.K. Follow her on Twitter @katzyna.