PhD Student
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, United States
Chloe Yi-Luo Cho is a first-year Ph.D. student in entomology at Cornell University and is advised by Dr. Katja Poveda. Her research focuses on the impacts of farm management and surrounding landscapes on insects and ecosystem services essential to agriculture, such as biological pest control and pollination. Currently, she is building models using long-term pest monitoring, climate and landscape data to predict pest prevalence in corn crops. Her research is funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Cornell’s Presidential Life Sciences Fellowship. She is also involved in science communication, outreach and education and intends to work with growers and the general public to drive useful, inclusive and accessible science. She writes for UnScilenced, a science communication platform, and teaches science lessons at local elementary schools through GRASSHOPR (Cornell’s Graduate Student School Outreach Program). Before graduate school, Chloe worked as a science writer and project manager at The Lexicon of Sustainability, an NGO that uses evidence-based storytelling to build literacy and awareness around food and agriculture. She was also a science fellow at Pesticide Action Network, where she was a member of the International Agroecology Workgroup and Grassroots Science Hub. She earned a B.S. in genetics and plant biology, a B.A. in data science, and a minor in food systems from the University of California, Berkeley.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT