Principal Investigator
Nate Swenson
Professor of Biology
Director of Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES) Graduate Concentration Area
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Professor of Biology
Director of Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES) Graduate Concentration Area
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Postdocs
Jenny Zambrano
Jenny is a SESYNC-LTER Postdoctoral Fellow with interests in tree demography, tropical forest fragmentation and biodiversity. She is originally from Colombia and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois - Chicago in Hank Howe's lab.
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Jenny is a SESYNC-LTER Postdoctoral Fellow with interests in tree demography, tropical forest fragmentation and biodiversity. She is originally from Colombia and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois - Chicago in Hank Howe's lab.
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Uzay Sezen
Uzay is a new postdoc in Sean McMahon's group out at SERC, but we also will call him one of our own since he is a part of our NSF Early NEON Science/Macrosystems Biology collaborative project. Uzay joins the extended family after a postdoc in Jill Wegrzyn's tree genomics group at UCONN. We are excited to have an enthusiastic (tropical) field biologist with fantastic informatics skills joining us! He also represents a much needed Turkish infusion!
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Uzay is a new postdoc in Sean McMahon's group out at SERC, but we also will call him one of our own since he is a part of our NSF Early NEON Science/Macrosystems Biology collaborative project. Uzay joins the extended family after a postdoc in Jill Wegrzyn's tree genomics group at UCONN. We are excited to have an enthusiastic (tropical) field biologist with fantastic informatics skills joining us! He also represents a much needed Turkish infusion!
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Ph.D. Students
Krittika Petprakob
Krittika is a tropical forest ecologist interested in linking diversity in organismal function to tree community structure and dynamics in undisturbed and disturbed forests. She is originally from Chiang Mai, Thailand and will be conducting her Ph.D. research on Thai forest dynamics plots.
Krittika is a tropical forest ecologist interested in linking diversity in organismal function to tree community structure and dynamics in undisturbed and disturbed forests. She is originally from Chiang Mai, Thailand and will be conducting her Ph.D. research on Thai forest dynamics plots.
Samantha Worthy
Sam is finishing her second year in the lab. Previously, she completed a MSc at Columbus State in the lab of Kevin Burgess. Her work has included phylogenetic analyses of plant communities along an elevational gradient in Ecuador and helping to generate a DNA barcode library for the dominate tree species in the Yasuni Forest Dynamics Plot in lowland Ecuadorian Amazon. She is interested in relating traits to demographic rates.
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Sam is finishing her second year in the lab. Previously, she completed a MSc at Columbus State in the lab of Kevin Burgess. Her work has included phylogenetic analyses of plant communities along an elevational gradient in Ecuador and helping to generate a DNA barcode library for the dominate tree species in the Yasuni Forest Dynamics Plot in lowland Ecuadorian Amazon. She is interested in relating traits to demographic rates.
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Kiri Staiger
Kiri is finishing her second year in the lab. Previously, she worked in Drew Kerkhoff's Lab at Kenyon College where her research focused on the functional biogeography of plant assemblages. She is interested in how chance events influence the dimensions of biodiversity in plant communities.
Kiri is finishing her second year in the lab. Previously, she worked in Drew Kerkhoff's Lab at Kenyon College where her research focused on the functional biogeography of plant assemblages. She is interested in how chance events influence the dimensions of biodiversity in plant communities.
Vanessa Rubio-Ramos
Vanessa did her undergrad training at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia where she earned bachelor's degrees in Environmental Engineering as well as Biology. Beyond Colombia, she has been an intern and research assistant with our colleagues at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Vanessa did her undergrad training at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia where she earned bachelor's degrees in Environmental Engineering as well as Biology. Beyond Colombia, she has been an intern and research assistant with our colleagues at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Damani Eubanks
Arriving Fall 2018
Damani is finishing up his undergrad work at the University of Rochester and he will join us in the fall. He is interested in tropical tree ecology, genetics and conservation. Damani is a native of Maryland and coming back to reasonable weather for his Ph.D.
Arriving Fall 2018
Damani is finishing up his undergrad work at the University of Rochester and he will join us in the fall. He is interested in tropical tree ecology, genetics and conservation. Damani is a native of Maryland and coming back to reasonable weather for his Ph.D.
Undergraduate Students
Boris Ngouajio
Boris is a fourth year undergraduate student working in the lab helping with projects regarding the anatomy of leaves in tropical and temperate trees.
Boris is a fourth year undergraduate student working in the lab helping with projects regarding the anatomy of leaves in tropical and temperate trees.
Hall of Fame
Yoshiko Iida
Yoshiko is a forest ecologist interested in tree allometry and linking variation in tree form and function to demographic rates. She was a JSPS visiting postdoctoral scholar in our lab from 2013-2015. She is now a permanent researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of Japan.
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Yoshiko is a forest ecologist interested in tree allometry and linking variation in tree form and function to demographic rates. She was a JSPS visiting postdoctoral scholar in our lab from 2013-2015. She is now a permanent researcher at the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of Japan.
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María Natalia Umaña-Medina
Natalia is a tropical forest ecologist interested in how inter- and intra-specific variation in plant form and function is related to species relative abundance distributions in communities. She was a Ph.D. student in the lab from 2012-2017. She is currently a postdoc at Yale and will begin a faculty job at the University of Michigan in 2019.
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Natalia is a tropical forest ecologist interested in how inter- and intra-specific variation in plant form and function is related to species relative abundance distributions in communities. She was a Ph.D. student in the lab from 2012-2017. She is currently a postdoc at Yale and will begin a faculty job at the University of Michigan in 2019.
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