If you are a TCD student (enrolled in either a TCD certification or concentration) and is not listed in the table below, please contact TCD.
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| Picture | First Name | Last Name | Degree | Department | Adviser | Co-adviser (if applicable) | Home Country | Research Interests | Research Country(ies) | |||
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 | Marliz | Arteaga | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Dr. Stephen Perz | NA | Bolivia | Political ecology Environmental governance Social ecological systems Sustainable development Mixed methods Transdisciplinary participatory research | Amazon | |||
 | Charles | Barstow | PhD | Anthropology | Rick Stepp | NA | USA | Ecological and environmental anthropology, ethnobiology and ethnoecology, cognitive anthropology, biocultural diversity, Native/Indigenous Peoples, pastoralism, mountains and grasslands/rangelands, subsistence practiced and food systems, local/traditional ecological knowledge, applied and community-based approaches | USA (Southwest) | |||
 | Shambadeb | Basu | PhD | Biology | Charles Baer | Jim Austin | India | Small cats, Urban carnivore conflict, Diet analysis, TEK | India | |||
 | Monique | Bohora Schlickmann | PhD | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva | NA | Brazil | My research interests are related to using remote sensing data to measure vegetation metrics, fire fuel, plant water stress, etc., and through computer modeling predict how tropical forests and savannas will be distributed in the future. | Brazil | |||
 | Denver | Cayetano | PhD | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | Daniel Johnson | NA | Belize | Biodiversity conservation, landscape ecology, and forest dynamics, primarily related to disturbance, regeneration, and carbon dynamics in tropical forest ecosystems. | Belize | |||
 | Silvia | de Melo Futada | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Joel Correia | NA | Brazil | Environmental Justice Governance of Protected Areas Indigenous and traditional rights Socioenvironmental Policies | Brazil | |||
 | Johanna | Depenthal | PhD | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | Dr. Karen Kainer | NA | Mexico | Changes in the production of chicle (latex of Manilkara zapota) by communities in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico from 2000 to 2020 | Mexico | |||
 | Sinomar | Fonseca Jr | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Stephen Perz | Catherine Tucker | Brazil | Biocultural Conservation, Protected Areas Management, Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Participatory Monitoring of Natural Resources and Biodiversity, and Empowerment. | Brazil | |||
 | Metolo | Foyet | PhD | Geography | Brian Child | NA | Cameroon | |||||
 | Claudia | Garnica-Díaz | PhD | Biology | Dr. Grace P. John | NA | Colombia | Tropical ecology, plant anatomy and eco-physiology, functional traits, elevational gradients, high Andean forest, serpentine forest. | USA and Colombia | |||
 | Antony | Gathiru | MDP | Center for African Studies | Dr Marit ¯steb¿ | Dr Kyriaki Kaplanidou | Kenya | Monitoring and Evaluation, Sustainability, Sports for development, Gender equality and female participation in sports. | Kenya | |||
 | Trent | Gautney | MDP | Sustainable Development Practice | Sarah McKune | NA | USA | Community organizing and engagement, governance, gender and development, men and masculinities, gender and health. | Guyana | |||
| Nicholas | Gengler | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Lyn Branch | Miguel Acevedo | USA | Landscape ecology and conservation biology in agricultural landscapes in Latin America | Argentina | |||
 | Angelica | Gouveia-Nunes | PhD | Forestry, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences | Taylor Stein | NA | Brazil | Community-based tourism; collaboration for natural resources management; conservation behavior | Brazil | |||
 | Priyanka | Hari Haran | PhD | The School of Natural Resources and Environment | Emilio Bruna | NA | India | ornithology, applied ecology, conservation, community ecology, tropical mixed-use landscapes | India | |||
 | Omar | Hernandez | MDP | Center for Latin American Studies | Glenn Galloway | Manda Wittebort | Mexico | Sustainable community-driven development, Community organizing and participation, Climate change adaptation/mitigation, Food systems and biodiversity and Power and social justice/change | Mexico, United States | |||
 | Caroline | Huguenin | PhD | Geography | Dr. Katy Serafin | NA | Costa Rica | hydrology, remote sensing, climate-change scenarios, extreme hydrometeorological events, environmental protection, and disaster risk reduction | Costa Rica | |||
 | Chioma | Iyamu | MDP | MDP | Dr. Ann Wilkie | NA | Nigeria | Environmental and Food Waste Management | United States | |||
 | Joanna | Jaramillo | PhD | Entomology and Nematology | Dr. Rachel Mallinger | NA | Colombia | Bees, Taxonomy, Ecology, Floral resources | North Central Florida | |||
 | Diego | Juárez-Sánchez | PhD | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Dr. Christina Romagosa | NA | Guatemala | I am interested in predator-prey interactions, trophic ecology, and invasion ecology. For my dissertation, I will be evaluating how important is the diversity of native predators to regulate the populations of an invasive prey. I am using the native river predators (large fish, crocodiles, fishing birds and river otters) and the invasive Armored catfish (Pterygoplichthys sp.) in northern Guatemala as a model to address my question. | Guatemala | |||
 | David | Klinges | PhD | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Dr. Brett Scheffers | NA | USA | microclimate, climate change ecology, ecophysiology, conservation in Madagascar, reptiles & amphibians | Madagascar | |||
 | Murielle | LeMaire | MA | Center for Latin American Studies | Dr. Susan Paulson | NA | USA | Human-Environment interactions, National Parks, Environmental humanities, human-wildlife conflicts, border zone communities, political ecology | Ecuador | |||
 | Andrés | León-Reyes | PhD | School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences | Dr. Taylor V Stein | NA | Ecuador | I have actively collaborated with researchers in several other disciplines in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Andes, and the Galapagos Islands. The overall principal research aims to identify the motivations behind the increase of wildlife photography on social media (by visitors and professional photographers) to communicate and express engagement with nature. | USA and Ecuador | |||
 | Vanessa | Luna | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Bette Loiselle | Karen Kainer | Peru | Environmental governance, Andes, Amazon, Fire management | Latin America | |||
 | Mesly J | Mata Loya | MDP | Center for Latin American Studies | NA | Mexico | Ecosystem restoration, nature-based solutions, community forestry, wildlife conservation | Brazil | ||||
| Katherine | McCall | MDP | Center for Latin American Studies | Dr. Galindo | NA | USA | monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL); youth engagement; | Kenya | |||
 | Sebastian | Mena | MSc | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Brett Scheffers | Robert Fletcher | Ecuador | Insect Ecology, Environmental and Social Governance, Political Ecology, Amazon. | Florida, Ecuador | |||
 | Mirian | Molina | MDP | Center for Latin American Studies | Glenn Galloway | NA | Honduras | Entrepeneurial and bussiness strategic planning, M&E, Supply and value chain analysis with Gender perspectives and Forest Landscape Restoration as a mean of diversification for Community Forest Entreprises | Honduras | |||
 | Fernando | Noriega | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Vincent Lecours | Jessica Kahler | Mexico | Humpback whale and human overlapping spatial distribution in areas of high ecological and economic importance. | Mexico | |||
 | Juan | Restrepo | MSc | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Vanessa Hull | NA | Colombia | Feeding ecology, movement ecology, human dimensions, biodiversity conservation | Ecuador and Colombia | |||
 | Viviana | Rojas-Bonzi | PhD | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Vanessa Hull | Lyn Branch | Paraguay | I am broadly interested in wildlife ecology and conservation, and I am working now with medium and large-sized mammals in protected areas. I am interested in how anthropogenic impacts within and surrounding protected areas affect mammal species and communities. | Paraguay | |||
 | Autumn | Rose | MA | Anthropology | Dr. Kitty Emery | Dr. Rob Guralnick | USA | zooarchaeology, human-animal relationships, community-based archaeology, curation and use of digital data | Belize, Guatemala, Mexico | |||
 | Audrey | Smith | PhD | Geography | Dr. Jane Southworth | Dr. Brian Child | USA | Human-environment interactions, coupled human & natural systems, land change science, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, food/nutrition security, sustainable livelihoods, gender equity, ecosystem services | Tanzania, Ethiopia, Namibia | |||
 | Emily | Swanson | PhD | Sociology, Criminology, & Law | Christine Overdevest | Charles Gattone | USA | Environmental sociology, applying sociological theory to environmental issues, political sociology, climate change, the carbon offset market in the tropics, food security, sustainability in the tropics. | Latin America | |||
 | Natalia | Uribe Castaeda | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Martin Main | NA | USA | Strategies to Engage communities in Coral Reef Conservation | Colombia, Belize and United States | |||
 | Akshay | Vinod Anand | PhD | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Dr. Robert Guralnick | Dr. Bette Loiselle | India | I am broadly interested in understanding the drivers that govern the elevational distributions of birds in the Nilgiri mountain range of the Western Ghats of India. Additionally I am interested in the development of Artificial Intelligence technologies that can be used to monitor wildlife, particularly birds. For my PhD I will be exploring the role of interspecific competition in structuring the elevational distributions of birds in the Nilgiris. I will also be looking at altitudinal migration patterns of birds in this mountain range, with a specific focus on tracking migration patterns as a function of phenology changes along an elevational gradient. | India | |||
 | Vincent | Vitale | MSc | Geography | Brian Child | NA | USA | Land use economics, economic geography, natural resource policy and management | Namibia | |||
 | Marlyn | Zuluaga | PhD | Wildlife Ecology and Conservation | Bette Loiselle | NA | Colombia | Bird Ecology and Conservation | Colombia |