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
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
Jennie Ohayon
Ph.D.
Student in Environmental Studies
My research interests center around urban ecology and urban environmental movements. Specifically, I aim to research strategies for preserving threatened species and enhancing biodiversity within an urban landscape. Employing a combination of comparative and experimental studies on urban greenways in California, I will examine how their geometry affects community composition and population dynamics of native and non-native plant species with different life history strategies. I am also interested in the potential of social movements and alternative communities to re-conceptualizing how nature and the environment are understood and how cultural change can promote the development of the "ecological city".
Curriculum
vitae johayon<at>ucsc.edu
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Studies
(Jointly advised by Jeff Bury)
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 jtorreso<at>ucsc.edu
Isis López (2006-2008)
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.
Isis began the Ph.D. program at the University of Puerto Rico in Fall 2009.
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