I am a wildlife photographer and science writer with formal training in eco-physiology, animal behavior and evolutionary biology, and a lifetime of informal training in the woods.
My academic work was focused on understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variation at the individual, population, and community levels. I investigated a broad array of questions, including how early life experiences shape the adult phenotype, what factors influence wildlife health, and how species respond to natural and novel environmental stressors. Now I work to bring the natural world to a general audience, drawing from both my formal and informal training to help inform my narratives, whether in writing or images or both. |
Loren Merrill is a research affiliate
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |