Author: Brian Kateman

Brian Kateman serves as the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability’s assistant program manager. He is responsible for managing the center’s website and assortment of social media platforms to promote and market select education programs. Kateman uses his background in evolutionary biology and ecology to serve as the main contributor on the Eco Matters Blog — part of the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet Blog. Additionally, he coordinates the center’s distance learning program and internship program. Prior to arriving at the center, Kateman completed three consecutive summers of internships at Echoing Green, EICES, and the National Wildlife Refuge Association through The Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. Kateman holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a minor in psychology from The Macaulay Honors College–College of Staten Island. His research interests concern the link between land alterations and changing weather patterns on species dispersal, social dynamics and population decline from both evolutionary and conservation perspectives. Building upon his previous research experiences, which address the influence of environmental uncertainty on the behavior, distribution and survivorship of rats, snakes and trees, Kateman completed his honors thesis, entitled “Avian Long Distance Dispersal — An Important Mechanism for Range Expansion.” He enrolls in the M.A. in Conservation Biology Program through the E3B Department at Columbia University in fall 2013.