
Thanks for visiting! My full name for publications is Katherine R. Urban-Mead, but I go by “Kass;” pronouns she/her/hers.
I’m a PhD Candidate in the Cornell University Entomology Department, where I study wild bee conservation in agricultural and forested landscapes with an incredible team of people in the the Danforth & McArt labs.
My dissertation explores the landscape, nutritional, network, and community ecology of wild bees in agro-ecosystems. You can find my publications here.
I am passionate about teaching and outreach. I ultimately hope to teach biology in way that gives students agency and tools to work for sustainable, meaningful land management no matter their ecosystem.

(pc: Greg Rothman)
I climb into temperate tree canopies to research how forest resources are used by orchard-pollinating wild bee species.
Here in Tompkins County New York, and at Cornell University, we are on stolen land, land of the Cayuga people of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
















