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Portal, AZ
Orange Walk, Belize
Portal, AZ
Portal, AZ
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In the lab
Brooke Quinn
PhD Candidate at Brown University
- Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Department
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awardee
- Aeromechanics & Evolutionary Morphology Lab
I am a biomechanist broadly interested in how organisms move and how they respond to perturbations. My current research focuses on the functional roles of sensory hairs in maintaining robust flight in bats.
Credits: Mark Thiessen
The photo above was featured in National Geographic 2023 Pictures of the Year and Time Magazine's Top 100 Photos of 2023.
National Geographic photo caption: "At Brown University, doctoral student Brooke Quinn (blue glove) and her adviser, Sharon Swartz, work with a Seba’s short-tailed bat inside a wind tunnel. They are testing how tiny sensory hairs on bats’ wings affect their flight responses to turbulence."
In the field
Credits: Katarina Hill
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