PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Conservation Biologist, Heritage Conservancy August 2025 - present

Conservation Easement Steward, Heritage Conservancy October 2021 - August 2025

Wildlife Technician, East Stroudsburg University/United States Department of Agriculture August 2020 – October 2021

Biological Science Lab Technician, United States Department of Agriculture May 2020 – August 2020

Forest Insect Pest Aide 1, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture October 2019 – May 2020

Indiana Bat Field Technician, Environmental Consultation Services Inc. August 2019 – October 2019

Environmental Consultant, Ecological Associates May 2019 – October 2020

Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University-Camden September 2018 – June 2019

Teaching/Graduate Assistant, East Stroudsburg University September 2016 – May 2017

Timber Rattlesnake Field Technician, East Stroudsburg University September 2015 – September 2020

Animal Care, Lehigh Valley Zoo July 2014 – March 2015

Naturalist, Wildlands Conservancy May 2011 – September 2012   

RESEARCH

2019: Harris, S.A. and A.M. Savage. Use of Ant Mounds by Small-bodied Snakes in Northeastern Pennsylvania 

2019: Harris, S.A. and A.M. Savage. Microclimates Associated with Allegheny Mound Ant Mounds in Northeastern Pennsylvania

2018: Harris, S.A. and A.M. Savage. Rapid Assessment of Amphibian Species Richness Along an Urban-Wildland Gradient

2015-2018: Harris, S.A. and T.C. LaDuke. Microhabitat Selection of Gestating Timber Rattlesnakes in Northeastern Pennsylvania

PUBLICATIONS

Harris, S.A. and A.M. Savage. 2020. Notopthalmus viridiscens (Eastern Newt). Habitat. Herpetological Review 51:809. 

Harris, S.A. and A.M. Savage. 2020. Observations of Snakes Associated with Active Nests of Allegheny Mound Ant (Formica exsectoides) in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Northeastern Naturalist 27:585-595