Tropical Resources Institute

Latin America Fellows

Ellen Arnstein – MEM
Quantification of stored carbon in the dry forest of Yumao, Bolivia
2012 TRI Fellow in Bolivia
Lauren Baker – PhD
Just Concessions?: Indigenous Rights and Identity Politics in the Peruvian Amazon Related to Oil Concessions
2012 TRI Fellow in Peru
Jorge Barbosa – MESc
Latin American Regional Environmental Governance: The role of UNASUR in strengthening regional ties toward sustainable development post Rio+20
2012 Sabin Fellow
Jorge Barbosa – MESc
Latin American Environmental Governance: an analyses of UNASUR's role in strengthening regional ties toward sustainable development post Rio+20
2012 TRI Fellow in Ecuador and Brazil
Jeffrey Chow – PhD
Reforestation Dynamics of Agricultural Lands in El Salvador
2012 TRI Fellow in El Salvador
Guilherme DePaula – PhD
Climate Change Adaptation in Brazil: What is the Right Adaptation for Farmers?
2012 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Angel Hertslet – MESc
Community Forestry at the Nexus of Rural Health, Agriculture, and Economy: A Case Study in Haiti
2012 TRI Fellow in Haiti
Andrew Lerer – MEM
Using Low Cost Passive Samplers to Construct a Fine Particulate Matter Monitoring Network for Buenos Aires
2012 TRI Fellow in Argentina
Vrinda Manglik – MEM
Contrasting Approaches to Mining Among Environmental NGOs in Lima, Peru
2012 TRI Fellow in Peru
Adina Matisoff – MESc
Exploring Civil Society Engagement with Chinese Companies Abroad: The China National Petroleum Corporation in Peru
2012 TRI Fellow in Peru
Kevin McLean – PhD
Belowground Ecosystem Function in Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Latrines
2012 TRI Fellow in Panama
José Medina Mora de León – MEM
Academic interests in conservation and development issues; summer internship with permanent mission of Mexico the the United Nations
2012 Sabin Fellow
Thomas Owens – MEM
Analyzing the socioeconomic benefits of wind power development and manufacturing for workers and affected communities in Northeastern Brazil.
2012 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Pablo Peña – MEM
Summer research focused on the role of law and institutions in the Costa Rican Payment for Environmental Services program
2012 Sabin Fellow
Pablo Peña – MEM
The Role of Law and Institutions in the Costa Rica PES program: lessons for other Latin American countries
2012 TRI Fellow in Costa Rica and Peru
Erin Raboin – MF
Ecosystem Services in the Tropics: Quantifying species composition and standing carbon in a mixed-use landscape in rural Panama
2012 TRI Fellow in Panama
Lucía Ruíz Bustos – MEM
Academic interests in natural resources management, sustainable development, and environmental governance in Latin America; internship with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
2012 Sabin Fellow
Jeffrey Stoike – PhD
Cultivating Conservation: A Political Ecology of the Restoration of Atlantic Forest of Brazil
2012 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Alaine Ball – MFS
Traditional Agriculture in Protected Areas: Perception, Meaning, and Boundary-Making in and around the Estação Ecológica de Juréia-Itatins, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Paulo Barreiro Sanjines – MEM
Walking under the shade: Social Analysis of the national Payment for Environmental Services policy in Agroforestry + Coffee systems in Costa Rica
2011 Compton Fellow in Costa Rica
Carla Chizmar – MESc
Ecophysiological and anatomical traits of native tree species used in the restoration of the Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
2011 Compton Fellow in Brazil
Sarah Federman – MFS
Gene flow and dispersal of the tropical palm moriche (Mauritia flexuosa) among palm swamps: implications for biogeography and habitat fragmentation
2011 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Alder Keleman – PhD
How Many Ways to Peel a Potato?: Native Crops and Urban Food Culture in the Bolivian Andes
2011 TRI Fellow in Bolivia
Daniela Marini – MFS
The Political Ecology of Fire in the Andean-Patagonian Region of Argentina and Chile
2011 Compton Fellow in Argentina, Chile
Meredith Martin – MFS
Population structure of Amazonian fruit camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) in Peru after decades of harvest
2011 TRI Fellow in Peru
Paulo Quadri Barba – MEM
Social Networks and Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards: A Case Study in Madriz, Nicaragua
2011 TRI Fellow in Nicaragua
Danielle Rappaport – MF
Using Rubber to Recover: Evaluating the Success of Enrichment Planting under the Shade of a Rubber Plantation in Southern Bahia, Brazil
2011 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Ryan Sarsfield – MESc
The Political Ecology of Brazil's Forest Concession Policy in the BR-163 Highway Forest District
2011 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Theodore Varns – MEM
The Pressure to Fell: impacts of smallholder farmers’ decision-making on the loss of tropical forest in northeast Misiones, Argentina
2011 TRI Fellow in Argentina
Sarah Wyatt – MESc
The Impacts of Oil Palm Agriculture on Faunal Diversity in Colombia
2011 TRI Fellow in Colombia
Lucien Bouffard – MFS
Seed Dispersal by the White-winged Guan in the Tumbesian Dry Forest of Peru
2010 TRI Fellow in Peru
Kyra Busch – MESc
Adaptive knowledge transfer: Cultural curriculum and food sovereignty in Kuna Yala, Panama
2010 TRI Fellow in Panama
Guilherme DePaula – MESc
Climate change and economic development in Brazil: What is the impact on household energy consumption?
2010 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Gabriela Doria – PhD
Exploratory fieldwork on cretaceous fossil plants from Colombia
2010 TRI Fellow in Colombia
Eliza Little – MESc
Habitat segregation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes mediovittatus within heterogeneous urban areas in Patillas, Puerto Rico, using high-resolution satellite data
2010 TRI Fellow in Puerto Rico
Manuel Mavila Loli – MESc
Hydrological services of an Andean Amazon Cloud Forest: the role of soils and the influence of land-use change
2010 TRI Fellow in Peru
Ana Karla Perea – MEM
Household level adaptation to drought in the southern region of the Yucatan Peninsula
2010 Compton Fellow in Mexico
Giancarlo Raschio – MEM
Towards a comprehensive national REDD+ strategy: a case study in Peru and Ghana
2010 Compton Fellow in Peru, Ghana
Pablo Reed – MEM
REDD and the Indigenous Question: A Case Study from Ecuador
2010 Compton Fellow in Ecuador
Ian Starr – MF
A case study in the selection and implementation of payments for ecosystem services in the Tumucumaque Indiginous Reserve, Brazil
2010 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Christopher "Grant" Tolley – MF
Functional convergence or niche differentiation? An analysis of foliar nutrient content of secondary succession plant communities in a former agricultural landscape in Panama
2010 TRI Fellow in Panama
Juan Pablo Vallejo – MEM
A regional strategy for water resource management adaptation in the Colombian Caribbean region under a climate change scenario
2010 TRI Fellow in Caribbean Region
Michele Abene – MESc
Below canopy light environments in young secondary forests; Agua Salud Project, Panama Canal Watershed
2009 TRI Fellow in Panama
Daniella Aburto – MEM
Clean Energy Joint Ventures Between Mexico and the U.S.: Addressing Development, Sustainability and Climate Change
2009 Compton Fellow in Mexico
Sarah Bahan – MESc
Back from the Brink: Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoises from Seemingly Inevitable Extinction
2009 TRI Fellow in Galapagos
Lauren Baker – PhD
Oil Exploration and Exploitation in the Peruvian Amazon: Examining Tensions Between Indigenous Rights and State Development Priorities
2009 TRI Fellow in Peru
Julianne Baker-Gallegos – MEM
Disaster Risk Reduction: A Local Level Diagnosis
2009 Compton Fellow in Honduras
Meredith Cowart – MFS
Composition, Ecological Importance, and Management of Community Forest Reserves in the Centro Montana Region of Guerrero, Mexico
2009 TRI Fellow in Mexico
Adriane Cromer – MFS
Seedling Species Composition and Diversity in a Young Successional Landscape in the Panama Canal Watershed
2009 TRI Fellow in Panama
Ian Cummins – MESc
Modeling Carbon on Environmental Gradients: A Case Study of the Yungas Conservation Corridor in Madre de Dios, Peru
2009 TRI Fellow in Peru
Henry DeBey – MESc
Predator Fish and Tropical Reef Ecology
2009 TRI Fellow in Bonaire
Ashley DuVal – MESc
Domestication of Acai in Home Gardens of the Amazon Estuary
2009 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Dana Graef – PhD
Agrarian Change in Cuba: The Revolution Remade
2009 TRI Fellow in Cuba
David Kneas – PhD
Life in a Hotspot: Institutional and Community Perspectives on Sustainability in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
2009 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Heather McCarthy – MEM
The Impacts of Jatropha Curcas on Direct Land Use Change: Case Studies in Brazil and India
2009 TRI Fellow in India, Brazil
Gillian Paul – MFS
A Comparison of Herbivore Damage Among Native Tree Species in Mixed and Pure Forest Plantations in Central Panama
2009 TRI Fellow in Panama
Harikrishnan Radhamoni – MESc
Soil and other habitat characteristics preferred by minnato (Heteropsis Araceae) in the Caura river basin of Venezuela
2009 TRI Fellow in Venezuela
Marian Thorpe – MESc
The Effects of Transnational Advocacy on Indigenous Mobilization in Panama
2009 TRI Fellow in Panama
Neda Arabshahi –

2008 TRI Fellow in Mexico
Jennifer Baka – PhD
Miracle Crop or Miraculous Flop? Evaluating the Sustainable Production Potential of Jatropha Biofuel
2008 TRI Fellow in India, Brazil
Mercedes Bravo –

2008 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Peter Christensen –

2008 TRI Fellow in Mexico
Stephanie Day –

2008 TRI Fellow in Argentina
Sarah Enders – MESc
In Pursuit of Participatory, Science–Based, Transboundary Management in the Shared Headwaters of Honduras and Nicaragua
2008 TRI Fellow in Nicaragua, Honduras
Christopher Finney – MEM
Improving Brazilian Land Use Law: A Case Study of Plantation Forestry in Southern São Paulo
2008 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Tal Ilany – MFS
The Future of Small Yerba Mate Farmers in Argentina: An Opportunity for Agroforestry
2008 TRI Fellow in Argentina
David Kneas – PhD
Conjuring Copper: The Cultural Politics of Resource Extraction in the Ecuadorian Andes
2008 TRI Fellow in Ecuador
Janet Lawson – MESc
The Future of Small Yerba Mate Farmers in Argentina: An Opportunity for Agroforestry
2008 TRI Fellow in Argentina
Jordan Macknick – MESc
In Pursuit of Participatory, Science-Based, Transboundary Management in the Shared Headwaters of Honduras and Nicaragua
2008 TRI Fellow in Nicaragua, Honduras
Claudia Octaviano –

2008 Compton Fellow in Mexico, India
Daniel Piotto – PhD

2008 Compton Fellow in Brazil
Esteban Rossi –

2008 TRI Fellow in Costa Rica
Stella Schons –

2008 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Trisha Shrum –

2008 TRI Fellow in Mexico, Bolivia
Norio Takaki – MEM
The Emergence of Trash Picker Cooperatives and the Challenges to Social Inclusion
2008 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Cecilia Viana –

2008 TRI Fellow in Peru, Ecuador
Georgia Basso – MESc
Local Conservation Initiative in Working Landscapes, The Paso de la Danta: An Innovative Model
2007 TRI Fellow in Costa Rica
Alicia Calle – MESc
Using PES to Transform Environmental Attitudes: Impact of a Pilot Project in Degraded Agricultural Landscapes in Colombia
2007 Compton Fellow in Colombia
Laura Frye-Levine – MESc
Developing a Spatially Explicit Model of Land Use and Infrastructure Access: A Means of Informing Development Strategy in Cusuco National Park, Honduras
2007 TRI Fellow in Honduras
Elaine Hooper – PhD
Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Seed Dispersal and Forest Regeneration in Amazonian Forest
2007 TRI Fellow in Brazil
James Leslie – MESc
Conservation in Flux: Pursuing Social Resilience in Mozambique and Peru
2007 TRI Fellow in Mozambique and Peru
Daniel Piotto – PhD
Spatial Dynamics of Forest Cussession in the Atlantic Forests of Southern Bahia, Brazil
2007 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Micha Rahder – MESc
The Integration of Scientific Research and Community Forest Conservation in the Peten, Guatemala
2007 TRI Fellow in Guatemala
Teresa Sarroca –
Impact of Selective Logging on the Structure, Development and Species Composition of Gulch Forests in Northern Uruguay
2007 TRI Fellow in Uruguay
Yulia Shmidt –
What is Wilderness?: A Study from Tourism
2007 TRI Fellow in Guatemala
Jeffrey Stoike – MESc
Cacao, the Guaymi and Reforestation in Western Panama
2007 TRI Fellow in Panama
Brenna Vredeveld – MESc
Modeling Land Cover Change in the Peri-Urban Interface of Guayaquil, Ecuador
2007 TRI Fellow in Ecuador
Jennifer Lewis – MEM
A Journey Towards Sustainability?: Migration Patterns and Community Forestry in the Amazon
2006 TRI Fellow in Brazil
Alvaro Redondo-Brenes – MFS
Assessement of the Effect of Landscape Matrix on Wildlife Conservation in the Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor, Southwest Pacific, Costa Rica
2006 TRI Fellow in Costa Rica
Brandon C Whitney – MESc
The Political Ecology of Indigenous Discourse in the Ecuadorian Amazon
2006 TRI Fellow in Ecuador

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