Grant Harris, Ph.D.

Grant Harris graduated with a B.A. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire, then worked as a ranch hand, waiter, built homes (failure), demolished homes (success!), range technician (prescribed fire), schoolteacher and zookeeper.  Grant then earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from Duke University, and afterwards joined the USDA Forest Service as a large mammal ecologist.  Since 2010, Grant’s been employed by the FWS, leading the Division of Biological Sciences in the southwest.  This division helps identify and address priority biological work for National Wildlife Refuges operating in an ecosystem context.  For Grant, the issues are applied and diverse, spanning species and topics like Yaqui catfish, whooping cranes, desert bighorn sheep, waterfowl, climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

Learn more about climate change and ocelots. Grant and his wife enjoy hiking, skiing, and NYT crosswords. With kids older and away he spends too much time fixing cars, gardening and spoiling dogs.