Reporter Aaron Short followed Chris Nagy around while he picked up poopy. Read more about it!
One Step Behind the Coyotes of NYC by Aaron Short
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Our research was featured on both WNYC and in the Gothamist. Chris is especially proud that Ethan, his dog, was finally given the spotlight he deserves.
Why coyotes aren't leaving New York City anytime soon - WNYC, Rosemary Misdary (print article) Why coyotes aren't leaving New York City anytime soon - Gothamist, Rosemary Misdary (audio story) New paper finds some interesting ancestry for one family of NYC coyotes.
Thanks to our friends at Princeton and AMNH! Coyotes in New York City carry variable genomic dog ancestry and influence their interactions with humans - Genes GCP researchers were recently interviewed for an article in the NY Times!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/science/coyotes-new-york-diets.html GCP's co-founder and the Director of Research at the Mianus River Gorge, Chris Nagy, co-authored two newly published research papers.
In addition to providing raw data, Chris contributed analysis and writing help to the primary authors, both of whom were master’s students. Chris works hard to grow GCP’s network of collaborators, participate in larger studies, and to increase MRG’s overall productivity and breadth of inquiry. He has published a wealth of research papers as the main author as well as a contributing author, served on graduate advisory committees, and as a mentor to countless students. The first study used a national database (which included pictures from the Mianus River Gorge in 2019) to examine how bobcats are affected by other predators such as coyotes and wolves … and humans. Chris helped with some aspects of data analysis and coding. He also edited the final manuscript. The second study used the more than 600k pictures MRG collected and identified from 2016-2019 in NYC for the Gotham Coyote Project. The main author, Angelinna Bradfield, was a master’s thesis in evolutionary biologist David Lahti’s lab at Queens College. Chris helped the author with analysis and editing. Human presence drives bobcat interactions among the US carnivore guild Predictors of mammalian diversity in the New York metropolitan area Our own Dr. Chris Nagy was interviewed on the Angry Environmentalist podcast. Check it out
https://rss.com/podcasts/angryenvironmentalist/496131/ Our latest paper was just published by the Journal of Urban Ecology.
We're especially proud of this one because one of the main authors was one of our (now former) high school student researchers, Olivia Asher. https://academic.oup.com/jue/article/6/1/juaa021/5979496 Enrico Nardone, Executive Director of Seatuck Environmental Association and collaborator with GCP in the Long Island Coyote Study Group, wrote an article in Newsday on coyotes moving into Long Island.
Is Long Island a new habitat for coyotes? by Enrico Nardone Our team's latest article was just published. This is part of Carol Hengar's (Fordham) dissertation research looking at the population genetics of coyotes in NYC and the region, the diet of urban coyotes, and human attitudes towards this species in the metro area.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-019-00918-x Carol's website: http://carolhenger.com/ GCP biologist, Chris Nagy, was recently interviewed on the podcast "In the Weeds"
"In the Weeds" has been doing a series on wild canids and our relationship with them, so be sure to check out the other episodes as well. https://in-the-weeds.net/podcast/gotham-coyote-project-with-chris-nagy/ |
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