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Stack / Whitney Entomology, Environment and Technology Col(LAB)oratory
SWEET Co(LAB)orative
The SWEET Col(LAB)orative is an environmental studies research group who often, but not always, use insects as a lens onto broader systems. We use a range of quantitative and qualitative tools to study science and society. Global environmental problems necessitate a diverse group of minds, bodies, and lives coming together to imagine (and then achieve!) conserving and sustaining natural and human communities in ethical ways. This work is interdisciplinary and done in community, with a wide range of collaborators across disciplines and institutions.
We do this while also working to:
- create space to be our full(er) selves,
- address positionality and power in our research and teams,
- do "open" research without extraction.
We are located on unceded Seneca Nations (Onöndowa'ga) lands. Learn more here.
Latest News
- April 29, 2024
new award
Dr. Stack Whitney was recently awarded the 2024-2025 NTID Ronald D. Dodge Memorial Endowment Fund grant. This will support collaboration with a student on an upcoming project, focused on assessing ableism strategies in biology and environmental textbooks and course packs used on campus. The larger goal of the project is help provide information and training to faculty on inclusive biology/environmental science teaching strategies that do not rely on deficit frameworks for disability, bodymind differences, and biodiversity.
- April 26, 2024
new presentation
Dr. Stack Whitney recently presented ongoing collaborative research on school districts managing food waste, co-authored with Col(LAB) members Kas, Maddie T, Maddie H, Jordan J, Lauren W, and former Col(LAB) member Rodhy V, at the 2024 Local Government Lab symposium in Albany, NY. The annual event is hosted by the SUNY Rockefeller Institute for Government, a public policy think tank.
- April 12, 2024
new presentation
Col(LAB) members Maddie T, Jordan J, Maddie H, and Kaitlyn C presented their research in progress today for the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences 2024 AESS Student Research Symposium. Congrats to them on a job well done! Learn more about the conference here.
- March 28, 2024
new article published
Dr. Stack Whitney and Dr. Whitney have a new article out in the latest issue of Environmental Humanities, Squished Bugs: Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in Ecology. Read it here.
Research
Environmental dimensions of transportation systems
We are interested in the interplay between policy, bureaucracy, and animals at landscape scales. Our focus is always in systems with human communities, currently with a focus on highways and roadside rights-of-way.
Critical examinations of ecosystem services
Environmental science is a human endeavor, shaped by individual and institutional structures, processes, and biases. Part of my research program centers on understanding how these factors shape contemporary ecosystem service sciences.
Ableism and accessibility in biology and society
In fieldwork and informatics based work, SWEET is committed to inclusion, accessibility, and reproducibility. In particular, we focus on disability access and inclusion (or lack thereof) in open science and beyond.
