Bárbara
Ayala-Orozco
Ph.D.
Candidate in Environmental Studies
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances, such as habitat fragmentation and
climate change, on species interactions, the structure of tropical plant communities,
and on the mechanisms that maintain tropical biodiversity. Working in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve in Veracruz, Mexico.
Curriculum
vitae bayala<at>ucsc.edu
Justin Cummings
Ph.D.
Student in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
(Jointly advised by Ingrid Parker)
Interactions between climate change and plant invasions in tropical landscapes. Considering working in Panama.
Curriculum
vitae cummings<at>biology.ucsc.edu
Suzanne Langridge
Ph.D.
Candidate in Environmental Studies
(Jointly advised by Dan Doak)
Addressing stakeholder concerns to resolve restoration conflicts: agricultural pests and pest control on the Sacramento River Watershed. Focused on bird, insect, and plant distributions and interactions associated with large-scale riparian restoration and agriculture in the Sacramento River watershed in California.
Curriculum
vitae sml<at>ucsc.edu
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Studies
(Jointly advised by Karen Holl)
Restoration ecology, paticularly regarding the dynamic interactions between plants, other organisms, and the environment that ultimately lead the direction of succession (or not) and forest composition. Working in Panama with the PRORENA project from the Smithsonian to look at whether there is a phylogenetic signal in the performance of tree seedlings planted under different species and the types of shared pathogens, herbivores, and mycorrhizae that associate with them.
Curriculum vitae dschweiz<at>ucsc.edu
Isis López (2006-present)
Lic. in Botany, University of Panama
Manager of field and greenhouse research on the phylogenetic signal in plant pathogen host ranges in rain forest in central Panama.
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
Porroca disease of coconuts; Novel plant-pathogen interactions
Campbell O. Webb
Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University
Phyloepidemiology: distance-and phylogeny-dependent
pathogen transmission in forest communities
Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
Phyloepidemiology: distance-and phylogeny-dependent pathogen transmission in forest communities
Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley
Ecology and diversity of epifoliar fungi
Environmental Program, University of Vermont
Tree biodiversity in shade-coffee agroecosystems