Madhusudan Katti

Bio

Dr. Madhusudan Katti is Director of Science, Technology, and Society and Associate Professor in the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program for Leadership in Public Science and in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. His work centers Reconciliation Ecology—the application of evolutionary ecology to find real-world solutions for reconciling biodiversity conservation with human wellbeing. An ecologist by training, he now engages local communities and the broader public in studying how human activities and histories of colonization and segregation shape the distribution of nature and biodiversity in urban areas. He is also interested in the ethics of ecological research, nature conservation, and of how humans learn to live with other species. He is actively engaged in rethinking and redesigning his own research and the teaching of ecology and conservation biology within a broader framework of decolonizing science.

Publications

• Biodiversity is not a luxury: Unpacking wealth and power to accommodate the complexity of urban biodiversity , Ecosphere (2024)
• Urban heat mitigation by green and blue infrastructure: Drivers, effectiveness, and future needs , INNOVATION (2024)
• Yosemite National Park is a Colonial Crime Scene , (2024)
• FITS AND STARTS: ANTI-RACISM EFFORTS IN THE BIOSCIENCES , NATURE (2022)
• Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions , URBAN ECOSYSTEMS (2022)
• Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology , NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2021)
• Demographic changes of a tropical understory bird in naturally patchy montane habitats in southern India , BioRXiv (2021)
• Forests After Florence: an informal community-engaged STEM research project promotes STEM identity in disaster-impacted students , RESEARCH IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION (2021)
• Inclusion in citizen science: The conundrum of rebranding , Science (2021)
• Anthropogenic noise affects winter song structure of a long-distance migrant, Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow , Journal of Urban Ecology (2020)