Gabriela Logo MS Candidate
glogo@ufl.edu
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in wildlife conservation and behavioral ecology. Here at the University of Florida, I will study the reproductive biology of the invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades, which is needed to understand critical life-history traits needed to develop potential control methods with synthetic biology.
Education
B.S. Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 2022
About Me
During my undergraduate career, I worked as a research assistant at the Developmental Psychobiology lab at FIU. I was involved in developing research projects that assessed how postnatal Bobwhite quails respond to various environmental and social cues. I also worked as an animal welfare intern at Zoo Miami, assisting the welfare team with behavioral data collection and analysis and zoological record management. During the gap between my undergrad and the start of my graduate degree, I assisted a graduate student in processing images from wildlife camera traps by identifying about a dozen mammals and other wildlife species. This project was done with the USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and it aimed to understand how forest habitat characteristics and changes in snow occurrence can affect mammal occupancy and habitat usage.
As a Miami native, I grew up hearing about the issue of invasive species in South Florida. Although I lived close to the Everglades, I had only visited once or twice. It wasn’t until a field trip to the Everglades with one of my FIU courses that I realized there is so much I want to learn about this remarkable ecosystem. I then decided that I did not need to go that far to work on conservation issues, which led me to the Florida Invasion Ecology Lab at UF.