Sanderson earned his B.A.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis. He was Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) where he worked from 1998 to 2023 when he joined the New York Botanical Garden.[6] As part of his work at WCS, Sanderson was the chief author, researcher, and director of the Mannahatta Project.[7]
^Manhattan: An Island Always Diverse, Edward Rothstein, New York Times, July 3, 2009 [1]
^Urban Tactics; I'll Take Mannahatta,
By Marguerite Holloway, New York Times, May 16, 2004
^Nick Paumgarten, Our Local Correspondents, "The Mannahatta Project,"The New Yorker, October 1, 2007, p. 44.