Unity Faculty Spotlights

Dr. Andrei Snyman leads classes in the Master of Professional Science in Environmental Geographic Information Science at Unity. He has over 15 years of experience working with GIS and Remote Sensing in the field, using these technologies to study large African carnivores, including lions, leopards, cheetah, African wild dogs, and several species of hyena. His current research interest lies in the conservation of wildlife considering the domains of biology, geospatial sciences and technologies, population dynamics and abundance estimation, spatial-temporal movement analysis, trophic cascades, the mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife population ecology, ecosystem functioning, animal behavior, and natural resource management.

Dr. Mira Mishkin is one of the instructional leaders of Unity’s Wildlife Conservation bachelor’s degree program. She has also taught an array of courses from Spanish and Biology to Research Methods and Human Geography. Her research focuses on indigenous rights, common pool resource management, climate change mitigation, and forest management. She has been working in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve since 2015 and helps with a sea turtle conservation project in Nicaragua.

Brittany Tomasin has spent over a decade working in the field of marine biology. She has conducted ecological research in kelp forests and coral reefs, provided husbandry for marine animals, studied whale shark ecology in Mexico, responded and rescued Hawaii’s marine animals, and managed volunteers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She is also an AAUS scientific diver and has conducted approximately 1,500 SCUBA dives all over the world.