I am living my dream, which clearly, for me, involves more swamps than for most. I left the corporate sales world in 2011 to work in primate conservation and become a scientist professor type! I finished my PhD in 2019 at Boston University, after completing my fieldwork where I lived in the rainforest of Borneo for a year studying orangutans! I’ve also had the good fortune to get to work with 8th graders for a year as a Residence Scientist teaching about climate change. I’m now working at Princeton University teaching Behavioral Biology of Women in the Anthropology department, and Sustainable Futures, a first-year writing class aimed at STEM students interested in climate change and conservation. I am also aligned with Erin Vogel’s lab as a post-doctoral researcher and with the Tsaobis Baboon Project as an international research fellow.
My interests are in primate nutritional ecology and habitat use, conservation, corridor research, edge effects, captive care of primates and other animals, and obesity research. I’m happy to share my experiences about the joys and heartaches of graduate school and fieldwork – possibly the most exhilarating and yet demoralizing and frightening period of one’s life. I’d also like to share with you interesting stories from the forest, and a little of what it’s like to do field research with orangutans!
Contact Information:
andreaLD@princeton.edu Twitter: @andreaamongapes IG: andreaamongapes
Andrea DiGiorgio 