Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Joshua Plotnik, Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. is a comparative psychologist who has studied elephants in Thailand since 2007. Recently, Dr. Plotnik has been working with students and colleagues to understand how research on animal behavior and cognition can be applied directly to the mitigation of human-wildlife conflict. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University, and was a Newton International Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York in New York City (www.elephantlab.org). He is also the founder of Think Elephants International (www.thinkelephants.org), a U.S. non-profit charity focused on conservation education in the U.S. and Thailand. Dr. Plotnik is a member of the IUCN Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force and the IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group.

Please note that this talk will not be held in person at the Kahin Center, and will take place on Zoom. Members of the SEAP community are welcome to come to the Kahin Center to watch the Zoom event together.

For questions, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

To attend virtually, please register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsduypqDsvHtbE6HJ4O-V9UQk6c7….

Beverages will be served outside before the talk, and in accordance with current Cornell guidance we will be wearing masks indoors. Feel free to bring your own brownbag lunch and eat outside with us before the talk.