Dr. Carly Ziter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Concordia University, where she holds a University Research Chair in Urban Ecology and Sustainability. As a landscape and urban ecologist, her research asks how landscape structure, land-use history, and biodiversity impact multiple ecosystem services – the benefits we receive from nature – and their relationships in urban areas. Carly and her students combine field-based studies, sensor and satellite data, community science, and synthesis approaches to understand the ways urban nature can contribute to safer, healthier, more livable cities. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, including active collaborations with colleagues from urban studies, engineering, communications, design, and political science, and benefits from non-academic partnerships spanning grassroots organizations to federal government. She is increasingly interested in how we can better integrate methodologies from the social and natural sciences for more impactful urban research. Carly is also committed to integrating public engagement and science communication into her scientific work, and has received Concordia University’s “Research Communicator of the Year” award for local, National, and International media coverage of her work.
Carly Ziter
