Meet the Team
Meet the Team
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We are a group of dedicated conservation biologists working on creative, science-based solutions to biodiversity conservation challenges. We support one another, collaborate on group projects, and have a lot of fun.
Staff
Staff
Our combined lab is led by dedicated academics and staff
Sara Kross
Sara Kross
Senior Lecturer in Terrestrial Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
Shaun Ogilvie
Shaun Ogilvie
Professor of Ecology and the Environment
Joint Appointment, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and School of Biological Sciences
Maia Raymundo
Maia Raymundo
Lecturer in Ecology
School of Biological Sciences School and Earth and Environment
Current Students
Current Students
PhD @ REC LAB
Ananya is interested in studying the role of birds in agriculture ecosystems. Her PhD focuses on understanding the ecosystem services and disservices provided by birds in vineyards and arable crop ecosystems, and how these services interact with surrounding farmland habitat.
Lily Ashenden
Lily Ashenden
MSc @ REC LAB
Lily studies bugs and birds in riparian habitats.
PhD @ REC LAB
Malaika D'Souza
Malaika D'Souza
PhD @ REC LAB
Nicki Edmunds
Nicki Edmunds
PhD @ REC LAB
Emily Gerard-Pearse
Emily Gerard-Pearse
BSc(Hons) @ REC LAB
PhD @ REC LAB
Ava is an entomologist and conservation biologist, specializing on human modified habitats. Her PhD research investigates how urbanization shapes pollinator communities in Ōtautahi Christchurch and the surrounding area.
Isabel Lee-Park
Isabel Lee-Park
PhD @ REC LAB
Isabel is an entomologist researching the eco-evolutionary arms race between Drosophila hosts and their parasitoids in the context of agricultural biological control and global change biology. Her primary advisor is Dr. Jason Tylianakis and she is co-advised by Dr. Sara Kross.
Erin Mornin
Erin Mornin
MSc @ REC LAB
Meghan Price
Meghan Price
MSc @ REC LAB
Jessie Sims Johns
Jessie Sims Johns
MSc @ REC LAB
Mary Buford Turnage
Mary Buford Turnage
PhD @ REC LAB
Mary Buford (MB) combines geospatial and ecological methods to explore wild biodiversity use of farmland. Her PhD focuses on the role field margin hedgerows as nature-based solutions for predator mammal control, habitat connectivity, and habitat expansion for native flora and fauna in the Canterbury Plains agroecosytem.
Alumni
Alumni
Laura Plimpton
PhD @Columbia 2025
Disease ecology
Tilly King
BSc(Hons) @ UC 2025
Lizards and mice on Kaitorete Spit
Joseph Bray
BSc(Hons) @ UC 2025
Rat demography in urban systems
Andrew Thiele
MSc @UC 2025
Jordan Hollinshead
MSc @ UC
Fergus Lowen
MSc @ UC
Prospective Students
Prospective Students
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