An Integrative Approach to Assessing Global Change Impacts for Mitigation: From Genes to Species
Tackling the earth's biodiversity and environmental crises requires an integrative scientific approach and collaboration among all stakeholders. My research integrates fieldwork, laboratory work, and computational analyses, drawing on concepts from geography, genetics/genomics, bioinformatics, and modeling to investigate key questions about the ways human actions on the environment impact species and how species are responding to these environmental changes. Additionally, I engage with indigenous local communities and other stakeholders through focused group discussions on participatory biodiversity management, seeking to merge traditional ecological knowledge with scientific approaches to mitigate biodiversity loss.
Research Emphases:
1. Demographic oscillation and connectivity networks in response to environmental disturbance and the recovery of genetic variation.
2. Environmental and evolutionary drivers of genetic and species variation distribution across landscapes, with a focus on aquatic ecosystems.
3. Adaptation of species to different global change phenomena.
4. Integrating local indigenous knowledge in ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection.
I am currently a lecturer and and a research associate at the University of Maryland College Park.
As a lecturer, with the Department of Entomology, I teach undergraduate introductory courses for majors and non-majors, as well as a masters level course.
Tackling the earth's biodiversity and environmental crises requires an integrative scientific approach and collaboration among all stakeholders. My research integrates fieldwork, laboratory work, and computational analyses, drawing on concepts from geography, genetics/genomics, bioinformatics, and modeling to investigate key questions about the ways human actions on the environment impact species and how species are responding to these environmental changes. Additionally, I engage with indigenous local communities and other stakeholders through focused group discussions on participatory biodiversity management, seeking to merge traditional ecological knowledge with scientific approaches to mitigate biodiversity loss.
Research Emphases:
1. Demographic oscillation and connectivity networks in response to environmental disturbance and the recovery of genetic variation.
2. Environmental and evolutionary drivers of genetic and species variation distribution across landscapes, with a focus on aquatic ecosystems.
3. Adaptation of species to different global change phenomena.
4. Integrating local indigenous knowledge in ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection.
I am currently a lecturer and and a research associate at the University of Maryland College Park.
As a lecturer, with the Department of Entomology, I teach undergraduate introductory courses for majors and non-majors, as well as a masters level course.
