Arianna is a graduate researcher at the American Museum of Natural History & the City University of New York who loves amphibians and reptiles. She started working in a lab studying the evolutionary relationships of African geckos as an undergraduate and fell in love with fieldwork and describing new species to science. As her work in the lab progressed, she knew that she wanted to continue scientific pursuits helping to explore and conserve biological diversity by examining its origins and stability through time. Now, she is nearing the final stages of her Ph.D. project, which focuses on understanding how the island of Madagascar has produced such a diverse collection of organisms found nowhere else on earth and using this information to help predict the future resilience of these animals to anthropogenic climate change. You can learn more about her research at ariannakuhn.com.
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From our field trip:
