From the organization:Snapshot Safari
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The Team
On the Ground: Meet the Team
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| Sarah Huebner | |
| Sarah Huebner is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, advised by Dr. Craig Packer of the UMN Lion Center. As research manager for the Snapshot Safari network, she serves as the central hub of communication, logistics, and data management. Her dissertation research focuses on the impacts of the quintessential ecosystem engineers, African elephants, on predators and other herbivores. Restoration of elephants and other megaherbivores has yielded information about the immense cascading effects they exert, but we are still trying to disentangle those impacts with confounding effects of ecological complexity, water availability, intensive human management, and climate change. Megaherbivores in all other biomes on Earth are functionally extinct, so African ecosystems represent the only remaining chance to assess the role of these gentle giants in maintaining ecological stability and biodiversity. |
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| Dr. Mike Peel | |
| Mike is an ecologist with the South African Agriculture Research Council. He has conducted ecological monitoring in the APNR since the late 1980s, collecting data on wildlife populations and vegetation. His work focuses on rangeland ecology and savanna ecosystem dynamics. |
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| John Peel | |
| John is a retired biologist and former ranger who maintains the APNR and Kruger camera trap grids. |
