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Postdoc Mike Gil Named TEDGlobal Fellow

TED today (May 23) announced its 2017 TEDGlobal Fellows, including one from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis: Mike Gil, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. He will be one of who will give talks at . 

Every year, selects a group of rising stars to be based on their achievements and strength of character, and their innovative approaches to solving the world鈥檚 tough problems. Fellows receive coaching and mentoring in public relations and communications, and join an active network of fellows.

Gil鈥檚 work on ocean ecology and coral reefs has taken him around the world, from Thailand to French Polynesia, to cruising through the North Pacific 鈥済arbage patch.鈥 He is also deeply committed to talking to the public about science. He started blogging in 2011 and launched a YouTube channel in 2012.

Video: So, you want to be a marine biologist? 

 

In 2015, he established the website and YouTube channel 鈥渢o tell true (yes, crazy, but true) stories of my adventures and mishaps as a marine biologist and to clarify misconceptions about science."

Those adventures and mishaps include juggling at sea while researching how , and studying reef fishes鈥 fear of sharks (and his own fear, after his boat broke down, at night, in shark-infested waters, ).

Gil has also looked at how living on floating pieces of plastic affects the sex lives of crabs, and how being helps animals survive.

He earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology from the University of Texas at Austin and his doctorate from the University of Florida before joining 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis as an National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2016. 

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