Patricia Rosa

Dr. Patricia Rosa is an Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Biology, Ecology and Conservation at St. George’s University, Grenada, and serves as Director for the undergraduate Marine, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program.  She has strengthened the program’s curriculum and played a key role in achieving international accreditation from the Royal Society of Biology. Dr. Rosa specializes in avian ecology, animal behavior, habitat conservation, and quantitative analysis, with a strong focus on the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to study rare and threatened species. Her current research centers on the critically endangered Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi), where she applies PAM to improve detection probability, monitor population trends, and inform conservation strategies, while also training government agencies and other stakeholders in its application for long-term biodiversity monitoring. She also leads projects examining the effects of traffic noise on neotropical birds, assessing human impacts on migratory bird habitats in mangroves, and analyzing bird strike risks in Grenada. She earned her Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2019. Her doctoral research explored the impact of oil infrastructure noise on migratory grassland songbirds and was published in notable journals such as Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. She also holds a M.Sc. in Animal Behavior and a B.Sc. in Animal Physiology from Université de Montréal. Dr. Rosa’s work is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, involving academia, NGOs, government agencies, and industry partners. Beyond research, she is dedicated to conservation outreach and leadership. She serves on the Grenada Airport Authority’s Bird Strike Committee and is the founder of the Fellows in Caribbean Academic Leadership (FCAL), an initiative that fosters regional collaboration in higher education and conservation.