Dr. Eric Strauss is President’s Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount University and Founding Executive Director of the LMU Center for Urban Resilience (CURes). Broadly trained in biology, ecology and multi-media communication, Eric has extended the model for traditional faculty scholarship through trans-disciplinary initiatives by co-founding the Urban Ecology Institute in Boston while he served as a faculty member at Boston College and CURes in Los Angeles, both of which provide interdisciplinary educational, community-based research, green restoration programs and curricula to neighborhoods and their residents. Supported by over 100 grants and contracts, his research includes collaborative studies of coyotes, crows, hummingbirds and urban forest ecology, with a specialty in understanding animal-human relationships, humane management responses to wildlife problems and urban greenspace program development. He has co-written multi-media textbooks in biology (Biology The Web of Life) and urban ecology (Urban EcoLab) as well as hosting multiple video series on the life sciences and ecology. Dr. Strauss received his Ph.D. from Tufts University and has held teaching and faculty appointments at Tufts University, The University of Massachusetts Boston and Boston College.