{"id":146884,"date":"2025-05-22T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//?p=146884"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:41:37","slug":"embarking-on-a-new-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//embarking-on-a-new-journey/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//","title":{"rendered":"Embarking on a New Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s easy to make assumptions when you see Tina Chiarelli/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s white-coat picture and academically rich bio under her title: Associate professor of medicine in the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences. Yes, she/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a doctoral graduate. Yes, she/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a respected educator on human anatomy.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Now brace yourself. There/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s another side to Chiarelli/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s CV.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>She/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s bagged rattlesnakes in the Appalachians, collared Bengal tigers in India, tracked spiny crayfish in Australia, studied bats and fingernail-size coqui frogs in Puerto Rico and explored dangerous underwater caves in Florida. Chiarelli the reproductive physiologist is also Chiarelli the traveling elephant biologist.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cIn the culture of medical academia, we tend to eat, breathe and sleep a singular subject,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cSo, when colleagues and students hear what I do they say, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2018Wow, that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s the coolest thing./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019 In the context of health, I think it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s important to see the world from more than one dimension./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Chiarelli/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s adventures stretch back decades but have just recently drawn global attention. Since late 2022, she/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s been selected as a fellow with the Explorers Club, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. In April, she embarked on her most ambitious field mission to date. For three weeks, she had the honor of carrying one of only 242 Explorers Club flags in existence as she travels by jeep, bike, foot and on the backs of animals over a 2,000-kilometer path in Nepal. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a route that has never been trekked by humans, though it has often been followed by elephants. And that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s why her team of three /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2014 a guide, a guard and Chiarelli /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2014 is going.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cThe pathway has been fragmented over the years and has heightened what we know as /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2018the human-elephant conflict,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cIndigenous people have been resettled into these areas, but it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s placed them in these corridors that elephants have used for centuries to migrate. Deforestation has made the situation worse for people who have no other living options and for elephants trying to find shelter and food./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>To Chiarelli, it isn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019t productive to ask which species belongs and which one is encroaching. 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Chiarelli observed during a recent research trip to Nepal. (Photo courtesy of Tina Chiarelli)</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a pipedream to think landscapes and habitats will be replenished to what they once were,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says, referring to the elephant population in Africa, which has declined from 3 million to 400,000, and Asia, where only 27,000 elephants remain. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cThere/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a push and pull on natural resources for human needs and elephant needs. Nothing will improve until we first reduce daily hardships on the people. When they/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019re no longer struggling for food, education and medical needs, then they can focus on being stewards of the environment./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>She believes the way forward can be found along the forgotten path.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Chiarelli makes this clear: She didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019t go to Nepal as a first-world academic.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cI would never tell [someone] what to do just because I have college degrees,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cAssumptions don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019t work in places like 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/">Associare Professor Tina Chiarenti (front, second from left) with members of the Tharu community, which are indigenous to the Terai region of Nepal. (Photo courtesy of Tina Chiarelli)</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Even satellite imagery of the pathway has even been deceptive, showing what appears to be lush protective forest rejuvenated from mass clearing in the 1900s. The picture, however, is very different from the ground. The fast-growing trees planted mostly to be cut for infrastructure do not provide a protective canopy for elephants, leaving them to wander into farms and tribal villages. And so, Chiarelli will use only two research tools: a curious mind and a listening ear.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cThere/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a caste system in that region of Nepal. People in lowest part of the caste have no voice. Many of them have no formal education and little contact with people outside their villages. They can give us a better understanding of what needs to change, but no one has gone in to listen to them and document what we call /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2018traditional ecological knowledge/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2014 wisdom through storytelling /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2014 until now./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Chiarelli knows firsthand what it/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s like to live in challenging circumstances. She lived in a trailer while growing up in rural Maryland. Her mom and dad had to work just to get by, and never finished high school.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cThere weren/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019t a lot of opportunities,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cWhen I told a guidance counselor in high school that I planned to go to college, he said, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2018Why? College isn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019t for people like you./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Chiarelli remembered those words, but never followed them. She/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019d already begun to uncover opportunities in nature. 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The next rotation changed her life.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cI went to the elephant barn and everything just stopped,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d she says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019d watch these elephants named Kate, Ginny and Alice comfort each other with their trunks. I saw them make people laugh. There/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019s a heartbreaking side to elephants in captivity, but once they/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019re here we have to give them the best care and move forward./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>Chiarelli never looked back. When she told a mentor that she wanted to work with elephants in their natural habitat, he said she/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u2019d have to find her own way to make it happen.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<p>It was exactly what she wanted to hear.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/n<blockquote><p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/146884/u201cMy overactive imagination has served me well in teaching and exploring. 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