Welcome!
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I'm a NSF Graduate Research & Chancellor Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the Schell Lab. I also formerly served as the Co-Chair of the Environmental Justice Section of the Ecological Society of America from 2021-2023. As an ecologist, I'm interested in understanding how humans and cities influence wildlife behavior, health, and biodiversity with hopes of translating this information to create effective policies that promote coexistence and create more just cities. I occasionally write about urban ecology and related topics over at Life in the City: Evolving in an Urbanizing World - check it out! The articles I have published there can be found here. Check out the EEB Language Project, an initiative working towards more inclusive language in ecology and evolutionary biology! Read about why we think language choice is important here. |
"There will never be science for the people until we have all the people in science." - Dr. Joseph Graves Jr.
Recent publications & preprints:
- Preprint for one of my dissertation chapters is out! "Historical redlining impacts wildlife biodiversity across California". Find the preprint here!
- New preprint and magazine coverage of it! "Queering Ecology: (Re)Constructing ecology as a home to better understand the social-ecological pressures of wildlife)". Check out both articles!!
- In Behavioral Ecology (March 2023), van der Marel et al: Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics.
- In Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Feb 2023): Cheng et al., Championing Inclusive Terminology in Ecology and Evolution
- In Animal Behavior & Cognition (Nov 2022): Estien et al., Behavioral responses to playbacks & management implications in monk parakeets
- In Frontiers of Education (Sep 2022): Estien et al., Reimagining the Broader Impacts Criterion of the NSF GRFP
- Preprint for one of my dissertation chapters is out! "Historical redlining impacts wildlife biodiversity across California". Find the preprint here!
- New preprint and magazine coverage of it! "Queering Ecology: (Re)Constructing ecology as a home to better understand the social-ecological pressures of wildlife)". Check out both articles!!
- In Behavioral Ecology (March 2023), van der Marel et al: Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics.
- In Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Feb 2023): Cheng et al., Championing Inclusive Terminology in Ecology and Evolution
- In Animal Behavior & Cognition (Nov 2022): Estien et al., Behavioral responses to playbacks & management implications in monk parakeets
- In Frontiers of Education (Sep 2022): Estien et al., Reimagining the Broader Impacts Criterion of the NSF GRFP
Header image by Sam Hobson
