Brett Allen
Brett graduated from The George Washington University in spring 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution, and the Environment. He began his biology research work in a microbiology lab studying hookworm responses to vermicides prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the fall of 2022 he shifted to research in micro-tidal salt marshes on the eastern shore of Maryland, working on projects there related to climate change, and this work culminated in a summer research fellowship with his university.
In summer 2022, Brett was selected as a Scientists in Parks intern with the National Park Service. The majority of his work centered around our team's underpasses as corridors project where he reviewed video data for medium- and large-bodied mammal crossings in the Mojave National Preserve. After the internship, Brett hopes to gain some experience in the field of environmental law and possibly later go on to law school to protect our remaining wild spaces from exploitation. His focal interests in ecology are ecosystem stable-state feedback mechanisms, restoring habitat connectedness, and landscape-level ecological gradients between protected areas and the unprotected land around them. |