About Me
Email: susan.m.tsang[at]gmail.com
Tel: 917-485-3338
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York, 2015
B.A. Skidmore College, 2009
ResearchGate
Email: susan.m.tsang[at]gmail.com
Tel: 917-485-3338
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York, 2015
B.A. Skidmore College, 2009
ResearchGate
Currently, I am a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Branch of Counter Wildlife Trafficking Strategy and Partnerships in the Division of Management Authority at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service HQ in the Washington, DC Metro Area. I serve as the Program Manager for a new FWS-INL joint initiative on combating wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia, with a specific focus on Indonesia.
My major research interests are in the biogeography and evolution of Southeast Asian pteropodid bats, particularly of flying foxes (genus Pteropus and Acerodon). I am currently appointed as a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the Philippines. I am also a Visiting Researcher in the Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. I graduated magna cum laude at Skidmore with honors in both Integrative Biology and East Asian Studies, and minored in Geosciences. As an undergrad, I was an NSF REU fellow at the American Museum of Natural History (2006) and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (2008). I went on to complete my Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the Graduate Center and City College of New York at CUNY with Dr. David Lohman and was co-advised by Dr. Nancy Simmons at the American Museum of Natural History. During my time as a doctoral student, I spent a year in Indonesia (2012-2013) as a Fulbright student research fellow, hosted by both the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and the University of Indonesia. I also received an NSF GK-12 fellowship (2010) to teach high school students about the use of DNA in forensics at S.T.A.R. Academy in Brooklyn and an NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship (2011) to Singapore, hosted by the Meier Lab at the National University of Singapore.
Given my research on these rare and endangered bats, I have become deeply involved with regional bat conservation groups, such as the Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit (SEABCRU). I am a steering committee member of the Taxonomy and Systematics working group, along with representative colleagues from a variety of Southeast Asian countries. My research sites are primarily in Indonesia and the Philippines, but my work with SEABCRU has taken me to Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia as well. I am also a steering committee member and mentor to Indonesian students through Tambora, the young Indonesian conservationist network. I am also an active member of the IUCN Bat Specialist Group and contributing to re-assessments for the Old World Fruit Bat Action Plan.
Recent Publications
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, M.J. Veluz, N.B. Simmons, D.J. Lohman. (in revision) High levels of inferred gene flow among geographically distant populations of Pteropus vampyrus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (Submitted to Acta Chiropterologica)
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, M.J. Veluz, N. Sugita, N.B. Simmons, D.J. Lohman. (in revision) Dispersal is a significant biogeographic mechanism in Pteropus in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (Submitted to Journal of Biogeography)
Tsang, S.M., A.L. Ciranello, P.J.J. Bates, N.B. Simmons. 2016. The roles of taxonomy and systematics in conservation. In Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. (ed. by T. Kingston & C. Voigt). Springer. 503 – 538. Invited book chapter (refereed). [link]
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, N.B. Simmons. 2015. New records of near-endemic flying foxes (Chiroptera Pteropus sp.) from Seram, Indonesia, with notes on ecology and conservation status. American Museum Novitates 3842: 1-23. [link]
My major research interests are in the biogeography and evolution of Southeast Asian pteropodid bats, particularly of flying foxes (genus Pteropus and Acerodon). I am currently appointed as a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of the Philippines. I am also a Visiting Researcher in the Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. I graduated magna cum laude at Skidmore with honors in both Integrative Biology and East Asian Studies, and minored in Geosciences. As an undergrad, I was an NSF REU fellow at the American Museum of Natural History (2006) and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (2008). I went on to complete my Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the Graduate Center and City College of New York at CUNY with Dr. David Lohman and was co-advised by Dr. Nancy Simmons at the American Museum of Natural History. During my time as a doctoral student, I spent a year in Indonesia (2012-2013) as a Fulbright student research fellow, hosted by both the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences and the University of Indonesia. I also received an NSF GK-12 fellowship (2010) to teach high school students about the use of DNA in forensics at S.T.A.R. Academy in Brooklyn and an NSF East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship (2011) to Singapore, hosted by the Meier Lab at the National University of Singapore.
Given my research on these rare and endangered bats, I have become deeply involved with regional bat conservation groups, such as the Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit (SEABCRU). I am a steering committee member of the Taxonomy and Systematics working group, along with representative colleagues from a variety of Southeast Asian countries. My research sites are primarily in Indonesia and the Philippines, but my work with SEABCRU has taken me to Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia as well. I am also a steering committee member and mentor to Indonesian students through Tambora, the young Indonesian conservationist network. I am also an active member of the IUCN Bat Specialist Group and contributing to re-assessments for the Old World Fruit Bat Action Plan.
Recent Publications
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, M.J. Veluz, N.B. Simmons, D.J. Lohman. (in revision) High levels of inferred gene flow among geographically distant populations of Pteropus vampyrus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) (Submitted to Acta Chiropterologica)
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, M.J. Veluz, N. Sugita, N.B. Simmons, D.J. Lohman. (in revision) Dispersal is a significant biogeographic mechanism in Pteropus in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (Submitted to Journal of Biogeography)
Tsang, S.M., A.L. Ciranello, P.J.J. Bates, N.B. Simmons. 2016. The roles of taxonomy and systematics in conservation. In Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. (ed. by T. Kingston & C. Voigt). Springer. 503 – 538. Invited book chapter (refereed). [link]
Tsang, S.M., S. Wiantoro, N.B. Simmons. 2015. New records of near-endemic flying foxes (Chiroptera Pteropus sp.) from Seram, Indonesia, with notes on ecology and conservation status. American Museum Novitates 3842: 1-23. [link]