Dr. Wendy Erb is a biological anthropologist and behavioral ecologist who studies the ecological, social, and physiological influences on the behavioral and reproductive strategies of wild primates. Her collaborative research program spans ecology, bioacoustics, anthropology, and conservation, tied together by a deep interest in how primate populations and human-wildlife relationships are responding to social-ecological change. With her research teams, she has compiled multi-year behavior, ranging, and sound-recording datasets for simakobu (Simias concolor), tamarins (Leontocebus weddelli), and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) as well as soundscape recordings of peat, heath, and mixed-swamp forests in Borneo. As a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, she is leading a team of natural and social scientists – in collaboration with local partners – to conduct social-ecological research across Indonesia’s planned new capital city location in Borneo. With support from Cornell University’s Migration Initiative and the Fulbright Scholar Program, they are seeking to understand the wide-ranging impacts on forests, communities, and biodiversity by combining bioacoustics and ethnographic approaches. In 2015, with Dr. Erin Vogel, Dr. Erb co-founded the non-profit organization CORE Borneo to support orangutan conservation. She is a former fellow of the Fulbright Program (Senior Scholar to Indonesia 2016-2017), British Academy (Visiting Fellow 2018), American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS-Luce Fellow 2018-2019), and American Association of University Women (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-1020).