Amy Karpati

Amy Karpati is the Director for Conservation Science at the Pinelands Preservation Alliance in Southampton, New Jersey. Pinelands Preservation Alliance is a nonprofit that helps preserve the Pine Barrens ecosystem throughout the Pinelands National Reserve and also promotes public awareness and support of preservation issues. As a leader in the New Jersey wildlife conservation community, Karpati’s ecological interests include conservation biology, environmental advocacy, ecological restoration, invasive species, and urban, plant, and soil ecology.


Prior to joining the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, Karpati worked on various research endeavors throughout New Jersey including the Montauk Point Restoration Project and the Kin-Buc Brownfields to Greenfields Project. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources for the New Jersey Highlands Wetlands Index of Biological Integrity, where she inventoried the disturbance levels of various plant life across multiple sites and identified soil invertebrates. Karpati also has teaching experience with undergraduates in the Division of Life Sciences at Rutgers University.


Karpati holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution as well as a B.S. in Natural Resource Management from Rutgers University.