Field Inclusive Names 2025 Summer Travel Award Recipient

April 24, 2025 | FIELD INCLUSIVE

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Nathália Susin Streher (she/ela/ella), currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, is the recipient of Field Inclusive’s 2025 Summer Travel Award, sponsored by Tracy Aviary (TA).

Streher was born and raised in the mountains of southern Brazil, where her fascination with natural history and ecology first began. She holds a Master’s and PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research uses pollen on stigmas from both field and herbarium samples to track contemporary and historical pollinator-mediated interactions. More specifically, she explores how these interactions shape plant community structure and dynamics, and how polyploidy, a major evolutionary process in plants, drives phenotypic changes that influence pollination.

This travel award, in the amount of $2000, helps to support applicants (undergraduate, masters, doctoral, or postdoc) to attend a scientific conference, training, or workshop taking place in the summer of 2025. Streher will be using the award to attend the 2025 “Integrating Theory and Data in Plant-Pollinator Interactions” workshop at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. This prestigious workshop will provide her with vital training in ecological theory and modeling, allowing her to deepen her understanding of plant-pollinator network metrics and apply these tools to existing field data from her PhD research.

“Streher is compelling, set the bar high, and fit the mission and goals of Field Inclusive perfectly,” says Lauren D. Pharr, co-founder and Field Inclusive CFO. “I am thrilled that this award will help towards offsetting costs so she can focus more on her professional development.”

Applications for 2025 Fall Travel are now open.