Researcher of the month: June


Plain language, plainly spoken


In a new column, Tim Gillett meets Auriel Fournier, a winner of the BioOne Ambassador Award for early- career researchers who excel at communicating their work to the public


“I spend a lot of time


communicating my science to folks who don’t have a statistical background”


18 Research Information August/September 2020


What is your research? What’s its purpose and what timescales are involved? My work focuses on emergent freshwater wetlands (wetlands without trees) and how we can manage them better, and how different kinds of creatures (mostly birds) use them.


Whenever possible this is done to address specific questions to better inform management decision making. Often the


timescales are a few years in length, but more and more we need to be looking at decadal scales for understanding wetland restoration and its impacts.


What led you to get involved in this research? I was very, very fortunate to grow up in NW Ohio, with parents who really supported my love of birds, and who had the time and ability to drop me off many mornings far to early to go bird banding with Black


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