Dr. Samantha Strindberg

Dr. Samantha Strindberg has been a Wildlife Statistician and Conservation Scientist with WCS since 2001. She works with colleagues around the world on the design of effective monitoring programs and the optimal application of continually evolving techniques for wildlife surveys.

Her statistical analyses inform conservation management and policy at multiple scales ranging from strategic conservation planning within land and seascapes to assessments that support the IUCN Red List of species, range-wide action plans for species, and decisions made at the CITES CoP. She has run dozens of training courses across the globe, and is highly skilled in capacity development of the next generation of conservation scientists.

Sam holds a Ph.D. in Statistics focused on Wildlife Population Assessment from the University of St Andrews, and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Cape Town. She has published book chapters on distance sampling and over 70 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide range of species, focusing in particular on wildlife population assessment, survey techniques, and evidence-based conservation. She was a member of the Committee of Scientific Advisors on Marine Mammals with the Marine Mammal Commission.