Michelle Jewell

Bio

Michelle has worked in multi-faceted, interdisciplinary roles within academic, non-profit, and tourism centers. She has a background in zoology and regularly works with popular media science outlets like National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Her main zoology-related research interests are predator-prey systems and their relationships with climate change, trophic cascades, and migration channels, whereas her communication-related research interests are understanding how the feedback loops of algorithms further entrench or expand our beliefs about our roles in the “natural” world. Michelle is also the president of the Science Communicators of North Carolina – the second largest professional society for science communicators in the USA. 

Michelle will oversee SE CASC communications efforts, providing increased capacity to promote SE CASC science results as well as to enhance communication and engagement among project teams.

Publications

• Nature's chefs: Uniting the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life , BioScience (2023)
• The Cost of Diversity: An Analysis of Representation and Cost Barriers in Stock Photo Libraries for Health Education Materials, 2021 , HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE (2023)
• New insights into the trophic ecology of young white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in waters off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico , Marine Biology (2020)
• Future research directions on the "elusive" white shark , Frontiers in Marine Science (2018)
• The role of refugia in reducing predation risk for Cape fur seals by white sharks , Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2015)
• Core habitat use of an apex predator in a complex marine landscape , Marine Ecology Progress Series (2014)
• Gauging the Threat: The First Population Estimate for White Sharks in South Africa Using Photo Identification and Automated Software , PLoS ONE (2013)
• A leatherback turtle stranding at Danger Point, Gansbaai, South Africa , African Journal of Wildlife Research (2012)
• Effects of smart position only (SPOT) tag deployment on white sharks carcharodon carcharias in South Africa , PLoS ONE (2011)
• A potential predation attempt by a great white shark on an indo-pacific humpback dolphin , African Journal of Wildlife Research (2010)