In our lab, we leverage creative thinking and cutting-edge technologies to better:
1) understand how natural ecosystems function and respond to change, to build general knowledge and inform sustainable practices, and 2) connect a diverse mass public to the oft-taxpayer-funded process of scientific discovery and all that it offers to individuals and to humankind at large.
In our research, we tackle a variety interrelated questions and often merge ecology and animal behavior, as well as empirical and theoretical approaches. We foster justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in STEM not only through the traditional Academic pathways of teaching and mentoring students in formal settings, but also through informal learning interventions that we stage in public spaces.
Gil Lab 