Dylan Craven
Degrees
MFS, Tropical Eco-Physiology, Yale F&ES
BA, Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
About
I am a PhD candidate in Dr. Graeme Berlyn’s lab and am currently located in Panama collecting data for my dissertation, “Functional diversity of secondary succession plant communities within a tropical agricultural landscape in the Republic of Panama.” The other advisors on my committee are Drs. Mark S. Ashton, Dennis W. Stevenson, Jefferson S. Hall, and Michiel van Breugel. I conduct my field site across an extensive network of tropical secondary forest transects that lie within the Agua Salud Project, a long-term environmental services study directed by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Centre for Tropical Forest Science (Applied Ecology). Also, I have interests in plant allometry, community-based reforestation, and restoration ecology. I received an M.F.S. from Yale FES in 2006, and spent the intervening year working with the Applied Ecology program of the Center for Tropical Forest Science (PRORENA-CTFS) and the Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI) in Panama, both Yale FES initiatives. Previous to this, I received a B.A. in Foreign Affairs with a minor in Spanish from the University of Virginia and have worked extensively throughout Latin America.
