Earyn McGee
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| Earyn McGee | |
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 Image of herpetologist and science communicator, Earyn McGee.jpg McGee at Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona | |
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| 🎓 Alma mater | Howard University |
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| Known for | '#FindThatLizard', #BlackBirdersWeek' |
| 🏡 Home town | Inglewood, California |
Earyn McGee is a herpetologist, science communicator, and graduate student in conservation biology at University of Arizona.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Early life and education[edit]
McGee grew up in Inglewood, California and showed an early interest in science and animals.[8] McGee decided to pursue conservation biology when she was an undergraduate student at Howard University, where she was an Environmental Biology Scholar.[4][9] As a summer research student, she studied Yarrow's Spiny lizard in the Cave Creek Canyon of the Chiricahua Mountains. In 2018, she completed her master's degree in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, with an emphasis on wildlife conservation and management.[2]
Career and research[edit]
McGee is currently a PhD student at the University of Arizona, where she studies the effects of stream drying on lizard communities in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.[4][9][2][10] She is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN® Ambassador.[8]
McGee also studies how to employ social media to bring more African American women into careers involving water and land management.[10]
McGee is an aspiring natural history TV show host.[2][8][9]
Science outreach and communication[edit]
Earyn McGee was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences a 2020 Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow, where she contributes to the Las Vegas Review Journal.[11][12] She has also been featured in several podcasts, including the science and comedy podcast, Ologies, with Alie Ward.[13][1][14]
McGee is active on Twitter as Afro_Herper. Each Wednesday at 5PM MT, she hosts a two-day Twitter identification challenge #FindThatLizard where she shares images and facts about lizards under the hashtag, #FindThatLizard.[1][3][4][10][15][16][17][14]
McGee is also one of the co-organizers of Black Birders Week, a social media campaign aimed at celebrating Black naturalists, scholars, and birders.[4][18][19] The initiative was a direct response to series of events including the racism faced by Black birder, Christian Cooper in Central Park[20] and police brutality against Black Americans such as Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd.[18]
Personal life[edit]
Outside of her work, McGee enjoys hiking.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "#38 | Earyn McGee | The Lizarding World of Afro Herper". Spreaker. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 eamaxwell (2018-06-28). "Ecologist Spotlight: Earyn McGee". Rapid Ecology. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leman, Jennifer (2020-02-11). "These 10 Women Are Changing the Way We Talk About Science". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Black Birdwatchers Face Racism Too | Voice of America - English". www.voanews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "Rub Them To Poop", Drunk Safari, retrieved 2020-06-06
- ↑ "What does a herpetologist do with a lizard once she's caught it???". 18 March 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "SNRE Graduate Student Named AAAS Ambassador | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | The University of Arizona". www.critterclick.org. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Q&A: Lizard-Loving PhD Student Earyn McGee". UArizona Research, Innovation & Impact. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Becker, Rachel (2019-03-24). "Test your animal knowledge with these challenges on Twitter". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "SW CASC Communications Assistant Selected as AAAS Mass Media Fellow | SWCASC". www.swcasc.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "AAAS Selects 28 Mass Media Fellows, Bringing Scientists into Newsrooms Around the Country". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "Ologies with Alie Ward: Saurology (LIZARDS) with Earyn McGee on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "SipNSci: Miss Itty Bitty Liz(ard): Lizard Lounges and Bearded Dragon Bars". sipnsci.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ May 2020, Mindy Weisberger-Senior Writer 27. "Meet Goliath, a Massive Tadpole as Long as Your Face". livescience.com. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "Can You Spot the Lizard Camouflaged in this Photograph That's Driving Twitter Crazy?". News18. 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "How Quickly Can You Find The Lizard Hiding In Plain Sight In This Pic?". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Charlie. "#BlackBirdersWeek – The WAR ON WILDLIFE Project". Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "'Black Birders Week' Promotes Diversity and Takes on Racism in the Outdoors". Audubon. 2020-06-01. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
- ↑ "Woman sacked after calling police on black man". BBC News. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
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