Nature’s Resilience Lab

The Bloom of Insight

Nature’s Resilience Lab is a sanctuary for Consilience – the weaving of knowledge from the natural sciences and the human experience. As the research home of Dr. Shannon Westlake, the Lab operates on the foundational belief that humans are inexorably linked with nature, and by honoring that connection we can further learn, protect, and heal together.

Our Mission: Nature-Based Solutions for the Soul™

After years in traditional research meticulously documenting more-than-human species data and the human dimensions of conservation, Dr. Westlake recognized a vital opportunity: to translate biological data into soulful, actionable protocols. The Lab serves as a bridge where intuition meets intelligence, leading to blooms of insight that will be shared within this ecosystem.

Through our Specimen Protocols™, we apprentice ourselves to the natural world to learn the architectural lessons of resilience. In our early efforts, we are translating functional strategies from the life cycles of bees, butterflies, and flora to help a new generation of protectors navigate their own process for rebuilding resilience.

A Note on Our Emergence

The Lab is currently in its own solitary momentum phase. Like the foundress queen building her first cell, this digital space is starting small to protect the integrity of the research.

This site is a living record of ongoing experiments. As we move through the seasons, more details, data, and protocols will be added following additional experiments and learnings. We invite you to witness this intentionally slow curing process as we build a sustainable foundation, one cell at a time.

Our Foundations

No knowledge gained nor innovation realized was a solitary act. We have included a subpage called The Reference Library where we will be sharing seminal research and publications that have been essential to the foundations of our research and application efforts. The goal is to share learning and uplift other researchers as much as we can.