IBioS Graduate Research Assistant
PhD student, Animal Behavior and Cognition lab, Faculty of Forestry
Contact Details
hgriebli@mail.ubc.ca
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Hannah is a Graduate Research Assistant in iBioS and a PhD student in Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram’s Animal Behavior and Cognition lab in the Faculty of Forestry. Her dissertation research resides at the intersection of non-human animal cognition and behaviour and urban socio-ecological environments. As humans increasingly reside in cities, it is crucial to understand how human behavior and the heterogeneous urban environment impacts animal behavior and cognition, especially in ‘nuisance’ species such as the raccoon. She is interested in how humans’ perceptions, interactions and conflicts with urban raccoons may impact raccoons’ behaviour and cognitive abilities, and how and why this may vary across neighborhoods within Vancouver. She also has an MSc degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Ohio University, where her thesis focused on sexual conflict in cognitive traits in a swordtail fish.
Hannah recently published a report for IBioS and the SEEDS Sustainability Program titled Human-Wildlife Conflict Management at UBC: A case study using bats. See the full report here.
Research Themes
Cognitive ecology | Urban ecology | Behavioral ecology | Human-wildlife conflict | Animal behaviour
Geographical Area(s) of Research
Canada (Vancouver, BC)