Devin Gill

Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

4840 South State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719

989-413-1531
deving@umich.edu

In the News:

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CIGLR’S Devin Gill presents NOAA GLERL brown bag series: Understanding the HABs forecasting needs of Lake Erie anglers! Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

CIGLR Stakeholder Engagement Specialist, Devin Gill, working the CIGLR outreach table during the 2019 MSU Science Festival. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

CIGLR Great Lakes Summer Fellows (L-R) Devin Gill, Tonghui Ming and Wanqi Ouyang enjoying themselves at the Ann Arbor Mayor’s Green Fair. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

Devin Gill getting a tour of the Painesville Water Treatment Plant. CIGLR’s Mark Rowe and Devin Gill met with Painesville Water Treatment Plant to talk about impacts of Lake Erie hypoxic (dead zone) water on drinking water (taste, odor, discoloration issues). CIGLR & NOAA GLERL are developing a forecast to help plant operators respond to hypoxic water intrusion. Photo Credit: Mark Rowe.

CIGLR Stakeholder Engagement Specialist, Devin Gill, working the CIGLR outreach table at the 2019 MSU Science Festival. Photo Credit: Aubrey Lashaway.

CIGLR Assistant Research Scientist Mark Rowe and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist Devin Gill present their poster titled: Understanding the Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting Needs of Lake Erie Anglers. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

Hank Vanderploeg (left) and Devin Gill (right) celebrate as CILER was awarded NOAA’s next Cooperative Institute in the Great Lakes and the new Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) took its place! A large group of CIGLR’s staff and partners came to Wolverine Brewery in downtown Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate! Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

Devin Gill discusses the CIGLR Great Lakes Summer Fellowships and Graduate Research Fellowships with a prospective student at the 2018 Green Career Fair hosted by The University of Michigan. With increasing concerns about climate change and environmental degradation in contemporary society, there is a demand for environmentally conscious careers. Applying skills to an environmental position can provide fulfilling experiences that encourage sustainable thinking in future career paths and benefit the environment as a whole. This event is structured similarly to other career fairs, but participating employers are hiring for positions with an environmental and sustainability focus. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.

As a stakeholder engagement specialist, Devin Gill works with CIGLR’s harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia early warning system teams to connect scientists with citizens. Her role is to translate scientific research for the public, and ensure that forecast tools are useful for stakeholders. Learn more about CIGLR’s Stakeholder Engagement by following this link.

Education:

M.S., Natural Resources and Environment (Behavior, Education,and Communication), University of Michigan, 2017
B.A., Environment (Environmental Journalism), University of Michigan, 2011
B.A., History, University of Michigan, 2011

Research Interest/Area of Expertise:

Understanding the factors that influence stakeholder decision-making when impacted by HABs or hypoxia. For my Master’s research, I explored the impact of HABs on recreational anglers and charter captains in Lake Erie in an effort to provide recommendations for improvement of the HAB Tracker Forecast Model. Other interests include behavior change models and environmental education program evaluation.

Publications:

Lower, E., Sturtevant, R. and Gill, D. 2020. Sharing Feedback, Sharing Screens: Videoconferencing as a Tool for Stakeholder-Driven Web Design. Journal of Extension. 

Guo, T., Gill, D., Johengen, T., and Cardinale, B. (2019). What determine’s the public’s support for water quality regulations to mitigate agricultural runoff? Environ. Sci. Pol. (101):323-330. (DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.09.008). [Altmetric Score]

Gill, D., Rowe, M., and Joshi, S. (2018). Fishing in greener waters: Understanding the impact of harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie anglers and the potential for adoption of a forecast model. J. Environ. Manage.(227):248-255. (DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.08.074). [Altmetric Score]

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Presentations:
  • Devin Gill. 2019. Assessing Stakeholder Need for a Short-Term Great Lakes Ice Forecast [Presentation]. 2019 Great Lakes Ice Conference held by the 9th District US Coast Guard. 
  • Devin Gill. 2019. Assessing Community Need for a Saginaw Bay Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast [Presentation]. International Association for Great Lakes Research Annual Conference.
  • Devin Gill. 2018. Applying Natural Science and Social Science to Co-produce a Hypoxia Forecast with Public Water Systems [Presentation]. International Association for Great Lakes Research Annual Conference.
  • Devin Gill (September 26, 2018). Using Knowledge Coproduction to Engage Stakeholders in Great Lakes Research [Webinar]. In USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf-Water Science Center Science Seminar.
  • Devin Gill. 2016. Understanding the Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting Needs of Lake Erie Anglers [Presentation]. International Association for Great Lakes Research Annual Conference. 
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Devin’s important work to connect research teams with data users ensures that our products are useful and relevant to society. “My goal as the stakeholder engagement specialist is to build a relationship between scientists and community groups to ensure that we’re all working together to promote this hugely important resource, the Great Lakes,” says Devin.

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“We want to begin speaking with community members, stakeholder groups from the get-go to understand what their interests are, what their problems are in dealing with water quality. So, that we’re working with them to develop solutions,” says Stakeholder Engagement Specialist Devin Gill during an interview with the Ocean Conservancy.