About MeI am an ecologist and educator with 13 years of field research and classroom experience. I am passionate about science and conservation and inspiring the next generation of students to learn and care about these subjects.
My research interests generally focus on conservation problems within coupled human-natural systems, particularly those involving human-animal-environment interactions. My research, driven by a strong passion to conserve the natural world while simultaneously providing for human needs and well-being, seeks out sustainable solutions to issues that impact both people and nature. To date, I have worked on applied research projects aimed at finding such multi-win solutions that positively impact biodiversity & ecosystem health, traditional livelihoods & community well-being, and climate change. These projects have focused on sustainable grazing management, the use of grassland ecosystems in mitigating climate change, and the potential for communities to generate revenue through carbon credit projects. The majority of my work has been in East Africa (Tanzania & Kenya), but I have also worked on projects in Panama, Ghana, Argentina, and the US. I have spent the past 5 years working as a lecturer and adjunct professor developing and teaching an array of courses in biology, ecology, geography, and conservation at several colleges and universities, most recently at the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-Newark. Prior to this, I completed a NatureNet postdoctoral research fellowship in the Rubenstein lab in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department at Princeton University, studying the effects of grazing management strategies on grassland vegetation and soils. Read more about this work on my Research page and on The Nature Conservancy's Cool Green Science blog. |
Megan McSherry Hill, Ph.D. | Megan McSherry Hill, Ph.D. |