Erin Foster Abernethy
Erin is an ecologist by training and is passionate about conservation, social justice, labor and the intersection of all three. Erin will be joining the Tropical Rivers Lab as a postdoctoral associate in January 2021. She is from the Southeastern USA, but is coming to Florida from Oregon where she is completing her PhD at Oregon State University. Her doctoral research focused on how anthropogenic structures—specifically dams—alter the dynamics of aquatic invertebrate communities in the Colorado River Basin. Specifically, she elucidated how flow alterations facilitated dominance within communities and mediated the attenuation of dam effects as distance from the dam increased. Her postdoctoral research in Florida will examine how race and gender influence environmental flows and experimentally test how to broaden participation in water conservation agencies. Erin and her dog River Monster are excited to join the Tropical Rivers Lab and the South Florida community!
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