About
Jeremy Cohen, PhD
Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time, and I’m driven to improve our understanding of how climate change affects wildlife and ecosystems. My research examines how multiple dimensions of climate change, including warming, variable weather, and extreme weather influence ecological processes and patterns across large numbers of species. I work on a diverse set of ecological questions, asking how climate change influences infectious disease dynamics, the timing of seasonal activities and behaviors, and species distributions across spatial and temporal scales using large observational datasets synthesized from the literature or sourced from citizen science initiatives. My experience with GIS techniques, remote sensing data, complex multivariate statistical models, and machine learning allows me to develop trait-based frameworks to better understand how diverse species and systems are responding to climate change. My history of working across broad questions and a diversity of taxa has allowed me the opportunity to develop collaborations with climatologists, statisticians, mathematical modelers, disease ecologists, and many others.
Education, Experience, and Personal Life
I received my Bachelor’s degree in biology from Binghamton University in May 2010 and my PhD in biology from the University of South Florida in December 2016. I continued at USF as a postdoctoral researcher from 2017-18, then spent two years as a researcher with the University of Wisconsin and Cornell lab of Ornithology before moving to Yale University in 2021. Before graduate school, I conducted research at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. I’m also an avid hiker, birder and wildlife photographer, and a big Yankees fan. I have an awesome wife, Erin, and two charismatic cats named Toulouse and Quentin.