CHES Graduate Affiliate
- Shaniya Utamidata
- Advisor: Dr. Erin Vogel
- Focus Area: Human Behavior and Ecology
- Email:
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My undergraduate thesis was focused on rough-and-tumble play in parental care in Javan Gibbon, and I graduated in Anthropology from the University of Airlangga, Indonesia, in 2020. I worked with Dr. Erin Vogel for Tuanan Orangutan Research Station in 2020-2021 and 2023, working on data management and handling samples in the research station lab.
In November 2023, I got a scholarship from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency for my master's degree at Rutgers. Then I joined the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program in Fall 2024.
- CURRENT PROJECTS:
My current project is a 30-minute documentary film about estuarine ecosystems and Rutgers University Marine Field Station in Tuckerton, but my thesis will focus on how we can measure STEM learning in middle school kids through science storytelling.
- RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Science communication, ecology, human ecology, wildlife, conservation, climate change, environmental policy.