Doctoral Research
How does environmental injustice/racism influence landscapes and wildlife?
How does environmental injustice/racism influence landscapes and wildlife?
Cities are heterogeneous, living habitats that can have cascading effects on wildlife that inhabit the ecosystem. For my doctoral work at UC Berkeley, I'm interested in investigating the effects complex urban landscapes have on wildlife. Specifically, I'm working to understand how environmental injustice/racism underpins landscape heterogeneity and influences wildlife behavior, health, and community dynamics.
Check back for projects as they develop!
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Environmental Racism & Landscape heterogeneity
Urban areas are inherently both social and ecological and have been shaped by both historical policies and contemporary actions. For this project, I will investigate how environmental racism has shaped certain characteristics of cities and what this may mean for wildlife. This work is currently in progress - stay tuned! |
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Landscape Differences & Risk-Prone Behavior
Cities provide a model ecosystem to understand the impacts of social-ecological dynamics, with urban systems acting as a dynamic mosaic of pressures that can select for and maintain particular (mal)adaptive traits. For this project, I'm interested in how landscape heterogeneity shape where risk-prone behaviors in mesopredators emerge on landscapes. This work is currently in progress - stay tuned! |
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Cities, Inequity, and Participatory Data
Participatory data is human-driven and much of the data reporting can take place within and adjacent to cities. With cities being strongly underpinned by social factors and participatory data being human-drive, room for biases opens up which can manifest spatially. For this project, I am co-leading a perspective article and data paper with Dr. Elizabeth Carlen discussing spatial biases in this data with respect to urban spaces. This work is currently in progress - stay tuned! |
Image taken from iNaturalist
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Header image by Kitundu
