I'm Hannah, a researcher interested in the ecological roles and practical implications of seasonality (ex: phenology 🌸🪺🍂) and day-night cycles (ex: diel activity 💤🦇) under environmental change, to address challenges toward a more sustainable future. My work in this area has involved a combination of field data analyses, wet lab experiments, and custom-built computer simulations.

Much of my interests grew from the accumulation of outdoor experiences noticing how life perceives and responds to the passage of time. These interests also draw from my prior research experience in hormone and metabolic mechanisms that underlie how organisms interpret temporal information in their environments. I am extremely grateful for my mentors (you know who you are) and that my research has been supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship--my research journey would not have been possible otherwise.

Currently, I am based at the University of Notre Dame, where I am exploring how thermal shifts in seasonality and day-night cycles create joint challenges and actionable opportunities for biodiversity management and environmental justice under climate change. Part of this research will draw from my time dedicated to a data-driven synthesis working group funded by the Just Transformations to Sustainability initiative at Notre Dame in partnership with the University of Michigan's Institute for Global Change Biology.

✨ Other skills & knowledge to share

• 👯 Best practices in creating and advising on sustainability initiatives involving students and staff leadership at universities
• 🔧 Establishing low-stakes settings to fail early for long-term success
• 🌱 Acquired from 2-4 month long projects: bioacoustics monitoring equipment (intern at Wildlife Acoustics), genome assembly and analysis tools (data science capstone project), hydrogen as an alternative energy source for transportation (intern at Shell)

📫 At Notre Dame, I can be reached at hyin2 [at] nd [dot] edu.