MARY BLAIR, Ph.D. is a conservation biologist and the Director for Biodiversity Informatics Research at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, where she is also the Inaugural Rizavi Innovation in Conservation Fellow. Her research has been funded by prestigious awards from NASA and the National Science Foundation. Her blogs for The New York Times’ Scientist at Work and AMNH’s From the Field Series have reached a global audience, as have her social media broadcasts for AMNH on endangered species and climate change. In her spare time, she enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy novels, playing softball and march mammal madness (#2023MMM), and evaluating the best playgrounds of Manhattan and the Bronx with her husband and 4-year-old son.