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Incident 8817 - Resolved

Role: Researcher
Position: Staff Scientist
Discipline: Life Sciences
Specific Discipline: Ecology
Outcome Year: 2020
Outcome Category: No Longer Employed (includes Fired and Contract Non-renewal)
Quote: " In 2020, eight women — including Sarah Batterman, an ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, and the University of Leeds, UK — filed a formal complaint of sexual misconduct against former STRI staff scientist Benjamin Turner. "

"The 2020 complaint triggered an internal investigation, and Tewksbury says that the Smithsonian has severed all ties with Turner. "
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