• Assistant professor, City College of New York, New York City, NY (starting August 2026)
• sCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL Instructor,
• Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University
• Instructor, Tufts University, Medford, MA

• Urban ecology  
• Pollinator gardening
• Demography and movement ecology 

Nick Dorian is an urban ecologist and conservation biologist who aims to understand how animals and plants make a living in the context of rapid Anthropogenic change. Nick’s research has three broad themes: population-level processes underpinning ecological patterns, animal movement in heterogeneous landscapes, and the role of urban gardens in biodiversity conservation. Nick mainly studies wild bees—a group of ecologically and economically important insect pollinators—because they are common, tractable systems for asking population-level questions, are one of the few taxa that shows promise for conservation in highly urbanized areas, and provide benefits to people through pollination. As a mentor, Nick aims to help students pursue their own interests in science, to learn how to be adept natural historians, critical thinkers, and comfortable with statistics. In addition, Nick is a passionate science communicator, and he considers community outreach as an essential component of his work.

(* = student author, + = co-first author)

Dorian, N.N.⁺, Valdes, I.R.+, CaraDonna, P.J., Finch, J., Hawke, R., Iler, A.M., & K. Havens. Evaluating native cultivars for pollinator gardens using citizen science. Ecosphere. Accepted.

Dorian, N.N., Murphy, A.M., Iler, A.M & P. CaraDonna. 2025. Setting goals for pollinator gardens. Cons. Biol. 39:e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70009

Markovits, C.^*+, Dorian, N. N.⁺ & Crone, E. E. 2025. Roads are partial barriers to foraging solitary bees in an urban landscape. Oecologia. 207: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05652-6.

Dorian, N.N., McCarthy, M.^*, and E.E. Crone. 2024. Bringing population ecology back to wild bees. Ecosphere. 15: e4973. http://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4973

Dorian, N.N. 2024. Voltinism of a solitary bee was influenced by temperature but not provision size. Oecologia. Highlighted Student Paper. 205: 245-256. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05580-5

Dorian, N.N., McCarthy, M.^*, and E.E. Crone. 2022. Ecological traits predict phenological change in solitary bees. J. Anim. Ecol. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13778  

Professional Website: nicholasdorian.com

Field Guide to Wild Bees of Northeastern US: watchingbees.com