Avalon Owens, PhD

The Owens laboratory studies how organisms and ecosystems cope with anthropogenic light pollution. We are particularly interested in the ecological costs and evolutionary history of flight-to-light behavior (positive phototaxis), most famously exhibited by moths and other insects. We use a range of methods spanning the fields of spectroscopy, stereophotogrammetry, remote sensing, computer vision, entomological collections, pest management, animal behavior, and conservation genomics to improve our understanding of both positively phototactic insects and the increasingly bright light environments in which they live.

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