Episode 19 - Kristy Biolsi

Kristy's subjects seem to like her a lot


Kristy Biolsi is an Associate Professor of Psychology at
St. Francis College in Brooklyn NY, where she also serves as the Director of
the BA/MA Program in Applied Psychology. 
She is a co-editor for the journal Aquatic
Mammals, serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the Association
for the Study of Ethical Behavior and Evolutionary Biology in Literature
(ASEBL), is a co-founder of the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative, and is the
co-founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology and
Cognition (C-SPEC) housed at SFC.  



She
received her B.S. in Psychobiology from Long Island University, Southampton
College in 2001 and in 2007 she received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from
the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).



Her research focus was on
marine mammal cognition and while at Long Marine Lab, UCSC, she worked
specifically with the Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Lab.  Her current research interests are in
comparative cognition, focusing on marine mammals, and she has two main lines
of scientific inquiry; laboratory work that is conducted at the Long Island
Aquarium and Exhibition Center in Riverhead NY investigating discrimination learning and categorization with two captive, trained, California sea lions and
field work which consists of data collection from surveys and naturalisticobservations of the local wild harbor seal population.  We even touched on some theoretical stuff about animal morality.



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