About
Jeremy Cohen, PhD
I am a spatial ecologist and quantitative global change biologist who works with big ecological and remote sensing datasets to ask why species and communities are reacting to changing environments from regional to global scales. I intersect ecology, geospatial science, data science and machine learning to explore the drivers of changing wildlife distributions, biodiversity patterns, movement strategies, phenological activity and host-parasite interactions under human pressures. Currently, I am an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University.
Education, Experience, and Personal Life
I received my Bachelor’s degree in biology from Binghamton University in May 2010 and my PhD in ecology and evolution 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, where I am now an Associate Research Scientist. 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, wildlife photographer and a big Yankees fan. I’ve given birding/naturalist walks for the public through Audubon and a variety of schools. I have a two year old who can already ID five bird species by sound and two charismatic cats named Toulouse and Quentin.