Richard S. Ostfeld

Richard S. Ostfeld is Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He is also Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut. His training was at the University of California-Berkeley (PhD) and University of California-Santa Cruz (BA), and Boston University (postdoctoral fellow). He serves on the editorial boards of Ecology Letters, Lancet Planetary Health, and Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases, and is a contributor to the National Climate Assessment and the National Nature Assessment. He has given several USA Congressional Briefings on environmental change and emerging infectious diseases. Ostfeld is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2024) and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019), the Ecological Society of America (2014), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013). He was awarded the C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists (2011). His research and perspectives have been covered by hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Wired, Associated Press, BBC, Huffington Post, Discover, and many others.