Gabriel Gadsden

Gabriel I. Gadsden's research centers on conserving urban biodiversity through non-toxic, ecology-informed strategies for human-wildlife coexistence. His work positions urban rodent communities as ecological indicators of neighborhood-level inequity and environmental health rather than pest alone. His work is also active in environmental justice and equity in science. His 2023 BioScience paper, an editor's choice and recipient of Yale's F. Herbert Bormann Prize, introduced "social-ecological landscapes of fear," a framework examining historical trauma and racial inequity bias ecological research. Now, as a Tom Lovejoy Fellow he is taking that lens to the desert, asking what climate change, prolonged drought and intensifying storms means for biodiversity and human-wildlife conflict in arid urban ecosystems.