Brian Griffiths

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Brian Griffiths is passionate about sustainable natural resource management and wildlife economies in the Peruvian Amazon. He is a human ecologist that also engages with anthropology, ecology, and conservation biology, and prioritizes community-driven work. His recent projects include the ecology of natural Amazonian mineral licks and the influence of cultural practices on hunter behavior, each conducted in collaboration with the Indigenous Maijuna people of Peru. Brian has done consulting work with the Smithsonian and United Nations, among others, on topics ranging from environmental education to wildlife economics. Brian helps direct the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER, Director of Research) and OnePlanet (Director of Conservation Science). He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Public Policy (George Mason University) and bachelor’s degrees in Plant Science and Environmental Engineering (University of Delaware), and is a faculty member in the Earth Commons at Georgetown University where he teaches courses in sustainability. Before coming to Georgetown, Brian was a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Mason University, the Executive Director of ACEER, and a Fulbright grantee.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Teaching Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, Georgetown University

Education

  • 2020 
    George Mason University, Ph.D. Environmental Science and Public Policy

Publications

  • 2023
    Hunter territoriality creates refuges for threatened primates, Environmental Conservation
  • 2023
    Spatiotemporal variation in hunting in a riverine Indigenous community in the Amazon, Biodiversity and Conservation
  • 2022
    Physical, landscape, and chemical properties of natural interior forest Amazonian mineral licks, Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • 2022
    Differential use of game species in an Indigenous Amazonian community: Navigating economics, subsistence, and social norms, Journal of Ethnobiology
  • 2022
    Patterns of visitation of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at Amazonian mineral licks, European Journal of Wildlife Research
  • 2022
    Revisiting optimal foraging theory (OFT) in a changing Amazon: Implications for conservation and management, Human Ecology
  • 2021
    Assessing the accuracy of distance- and interview-based measures of hunting pressure, Conservation Science and Practice
  • 2021
    Dissimilarities in species assemblages among Amazonian mineral licks, BioTropica
  • 2020
    Temporal patterns in visitation of mammals and birds at mineral licks in the Peruvian Amazon, Ecology and Evolution
  • 2020
    The socio-cultural significance of mineral licks to the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon: implications for the sustainable management of hunting, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
  • 2020
    Predation of a Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) by an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) at a mineral lick in the Peruvian Amazon, Food Webs
  • 2018
    Potentially infanticidal behavior in the Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), Acta Ethologica

Contact Brian for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision