UCLA Institute of the Environment - Center for Tropical Research

Director

CTR Director: Thomas Smith

Associate Directors

CTR Associate Directors:
Jordan Karubian, Latin America Director
John Pollinger, Conservation Genetics Resource Center Director

Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology
H. Clark Barrett
Susan Perry
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Wolfgang Buermann (and Institute of the Environment)

Biomathematics/David Geffen School of Medicine
Marc Suchard (and Biostatistics and Human Genetics)
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Biostatistics/School of Public Health
Marc Suchard (and Biomathematics and Human Genetics)
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Center for International Emergency Medicine
Eric Savitsky
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Thomas Wake
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
Daniel Blumstein
Martin Cody
Nicholas Collias
Arthur Gibson
Malcolm Gordon
Patricia Gowaty
Gregory Grether
William Hamner
Stephen Hubbell
Henry Hespenheide
David Jacobs
Glen MacDonald (and Geography)
Kenneth Nagy
Peter Narins (Steering Committee member and Physiological Science)
Peter Nonacs
John Novembre
Phil Rundel
Lawren Sack
Victoria Sork (Steering Committee member)
Charles Taylor
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Richard Vance
Robert Wayne (Steering Committee member)
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Epidemiology/School of Public Health
Scott Layne
Anne Rimoin
Nathan Wolfe
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Geography
Judith Carney
Thomas Gillespie (Steering Commitee member)
Glen MacDonald (and EEB)
Anthony Orme
Marilyn Raphael
Hartmut Walter
Yongkang Xue
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Human Genetics/David Geffen School of Medicine
Marc Suchard (and Biomathematics and Biostatistics)

Institute of the Environment (IoE)
Wolfgang Buermann (and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
Stephanie Pincetl
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Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Ann Hirsch
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Physiological Science
Peter Narins (Steering Committee member and EEB)
Barney Schlinger
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Physiology/David Geffen School of Medicine
Alan Grinnell
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Political Science
Michael Ross
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Public Policy
J.R. DeShazo
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Urban Planning
Susanna Hecht
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World Arts and Cultures
Allen Roberts (Steering Commitee member)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Katy Semple Delaney
Renata Durães
Cyril Dutech
Ryan Harrigan
Klaus Koepfli
Claire Loiseau
Nick Manoukis
Christiane Meyer
Kevin Njabo
Douglas Scofield
Henri Thomassen
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Graduate Students and Research Associates

Allison Alvarado
Chris Anderson
Shiferaw Asseffa
Victoria Arch
Gabriela Castaneda
Anthony Chasar
Jaime Chaves
Emily Curd
Caroline Dingle
Sarah Fernandez
Adam Freedman
Princess Gilbert
Ana Paula Giorgi
Kristine Kaiser
Karen Kapheim
Alex Kirschel
Ilonka von Lippke
Erin Marnocha
Edward Mitchard
Dennis Anye Ndeh
Akane Nishimura
Willis Okech Oyugi
Hilton Oyamaguchi
Setal Prabhu
Shauna Price
Amy Rogers
Raul Sedano
Jennifer Sheridan
Pamela Thompson
Ben Wang
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International Research Associates

Bertin Akpatou - Ivory Coast
Luis Carrasco - Ecuador
Tanga Mbi Chrysantus - Cameroon
Jean Bernard Dongmo - Cameroon
Francis Alemanji Forzi - Cameroon
Juan Freile - Ecuador
Legrand Nono Gonwouo – Cameroon
Jamie Guerra - Ecuador
Jessica Irwin - Canada
Matthew LeBreton - Cameroon
Sergio Nigenda - Mexico
Adán Oliveras de Ita - Mexico
Tatiana Santander - Ecuador
Jean Michel Takuo - Cameroon
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Senior Research Fellows

Arkhat Abzhanov - Harvard University
Donat Agosti - American Museum of Natural History, New York
Douglas E. Alsdorf - Ohio State University
Philippe Auzel
Carol Baird - University of California Berkeley & Cal Alive!
Frank Bayliss - San Francisco State University
Paul Beier - Northern Arizona Unviersity & Nature Conservation Research Center of Ghana
Elena Berg - Center for Tropical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Louis Bernatchez - Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Camille Bonneaud - Harvard University
Katrina Brandon - Conservation International
Jeffrey Brawn - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tom Brooks - Conservation International
Micheal Bruford - Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Paul Bunje - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ryan Calsbeek - Dartmouth College
Kuei-Chiu Chen - Cornell University
Celine Clabaut - Harvard University
Sonya Clegg - Imperial College London, England
Edward Connor - San Francisco State University
Erick De la Barrera - Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
David F. DeSante - The Institute for Bird Populations
Thomas Dietsch - Center for Tropical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Xavier Domingo-Roura - Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries, Centre de Cabrils, Cabrils (Barcelona), Spain
Roger Fotso - Wildlife Conservation Society, Cameroon
Leonida Fusani - Università di Siena, Italy
Derek Girman - Sonoma State University
Madelyn Glickfeld - University of California, Los Angeles
Benoit Goossens - Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Catherine Graham - State University of New York at Stony Brook
Russell Greenberg - Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Washington, D.C.
Alexander (Sandy) Harcourt - University of California, Davis
Alan Harper - Terra Penninsular and Audubon California
Gregor Hodgson - Reef Check Foundation
Darren Irwin - University of British Columbia, Canada
Piotr Jablonski - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hugh Jones - University of Western Australia
Blaise Kadjo - Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, CÔte D'Ivoire
Margaret Kinnaird - Mpala Research Centre, Kenya
Michael Kohn - Rice University
Brenda Larison - Center for Tropical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
William Laurance - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Gretchen Lebuhn -San Francisco State University
Jonathan Levine - University of California, Santa Barbara
Irby Lovette - Cornell University
Yadvinder Malhi - Oxford University, United Kingdom
Michael McColm - Jatun Sacha Foundation, Ecuador
John McCormack - University of Michigan
Borja Milá - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
Craig Moritz - University California, Berkeley
J. Cully Nordby - University of California, Los Angeles
Tim O'Brien - Mpala Research Centre, Kenya
Matt Orr - University of Oregon
Sonal Pandya - Conservation International
Thomas Parker - San Francisco State University
Jim Patton - University of California, Berkeley
Debra Pires - University of California, Los Angeles
Deborah Randall - Frankfurt Zoological Society
Mark Reynolds - The Nature Conservancy
David Romo - Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Sassan Saatchi - NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Eduardo Santana Castellón - Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCSUR, Mexico
Chris Schneider - Boston University
Ravinder Sehgal - San Francisco State University
Hans Slabbekoorn - Leiden University, The Netherlands
Greg Spicer - San Francisco State University
Kelly Swing - Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Gediminas Valkiunas - Vilnius University, Institute of Ecology, Lithuania
Richard VanBuskirk - Pacific University
Samuel Wanji - University of Buea, Cameroon
Paula White - Center for Tropical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Alex Hon-Tsen Yu - National Tawain University
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Partner Organizations

Conservation International
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Institute for Bird Populations
Institute of the Environment (UCLA)
Instituto Manantlán de Ecología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad, Universidad de Guadalajara-CUCSUR, Mexico
Jatun Sacha Foundation, Ecuador
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Reef Check Foundation
Terra Peninsular
The Nature Conservancy
Wildlife Conservation Society
World Resources Institute
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
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Friends of CTR

Joseph Brooks
Lisa Fimiani
Garry George
John Lobel
Gary Morris
Margery Nicolson
Larry Wan
Sara Wan
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Alumni

Connie Clark
Mark Collins
Mark Fogil
Aaron French
Ellen Van Gelder
Denise Hardesty
Kimberly Holbrook
Mari Kimura
John Poulsen
Alex Richard
Kristen Ruegg
Don Stauffer
Peg Wade
Ken Whitney
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Administration

Administrative Analyst: Jean Savage
Administrative Assistant: Marie Walcek
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