Tara K. Meyer, PhD
I am a conservation scientist and educator dedicated to understanding how wildlife and people coexist within a rapidly changing climate.
Latest Dispatches
The Phenological Trap
Five years of data from the Canadian Rockies reveal a troubling pattern: as spring arrives earlier, the window of peak nutrition for migratory ungulates is narrowing — and the consequences cascade through the entire mountain ecosystem.
Chasing the Ghost Cat
At 4,000 meters in the Pamirs, collecting snow leopard scat from ridgelines that no one has walked in decades, I found the clearest expression of what conservation biology demands: faith in evidence you cannot yet see.
The Detective of the Tetons
Tracking grizzly bears through Grand Teton's backcountry revealed that the most dangerous predator in the ecosystem is not the one with claws — it is the one with assumptions.
Conservation at the intersection of science and story
Ecologist, educator, and field researcher dedicated to understanding how wildlife and people coexist in a changing world.
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