Dr Jedediah Brodie

University of Montana

Dr Jedediah Brodie is a conservation biologist and field ecologist, serving as the John J. Craighead Endowed Chair of Conservation at the University of Montana. He studies landscape connectivity, striving for sustainability in wildlife exploitation, and mitigating the impacts of climate change, hunting, and logging on organisms and ecosystems. He is also interested in the role that rainforest mammals play in maintaining forest carbon stocks, via dispersing seeds of critical tree species. Jedediah has worked in tropical Asia, North America, southern Africa, and Central America, currently focusing on Southeast Asia -particularly Malaysian Borneo and eastern Indonesia. He is actively engaged with the governments of Sarawak and Sabah (Malaysia) on protecting habitat corridors for wildlife and on the sustainability of bushmeat hunting. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow to Malaysia and a David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow with the Society for Conservation Biology.