Indoor Meeting – Environmental Justice through Bird Watching and Music-Making – Diego Soto (Virtual only)

**This virtual-only meeting will start at 7p.m.**

Historically redlined neighborhoods are the most undersampled urban areas for bird biodiversity today, a fact which can impact conservation priorities and further urban environmental inequities. Diego Ellis Soto’s research in this area goes beyond the traditional extent of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and takes a look into the role humans play in shaping the past, present, and future of our natural world. He proposes an innovative educational concept combining technology, music-making, and bird watching to work toward a more equitable sampling of biodiversity data.

Diego Ellis Soto is a Uruguayan Ph.D. candidate in Ecology at Yale University and a NASA FINESST Future Investigator. Working at the intersection of spatial ecology, technology, conservation, and environmental justice, he studies how animals move across the world and cope with increasing human threats and a rapidly changing climate. He is interested in how our access to biodiversity data is shaped by our socioeconomic status and how past and present social inequalities amplify current disparities in environmental sciences.