INOGO - Affiliated Researchers

Will Oestreich

levic — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:56:54 +0000

Will

Oestreich

Title and Credentials:

PhD Student, Hopkins Marine Station

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Will’s research focuses on connecting the behaviors of highly-mobile marine animals across scales. This includes studies linking the behaviors of individuals to the behaviors of populations, and understanding how oceanographic variability drives behavioral patterns at these scales. He is particularly interested in using findings from this research to improve dynamic marine forecasting and management strategies.

Andre Boustany

levic — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:12:56 +0000

Andre

Boustany

Title and Credentials:

Principal Investigator, Fisheries Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Affiliated Researchers

Andre has over two decades of experience tagging and tracking pelagic fishes including tunas, billfish, and sharks to examine population structure, migration patterns, and habitat use. He is primarily interested in answering questions with direct implications for the conservation of highly migratory fish species. In addition to conducting scientific studies, Andre also attends international fisheries meetings to ensure the latest science is properly applied to the management of shared fish stocks.

Hannah Blondin

levic — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:28:15 +0000

Hannah

Blondin

Title and Credentials:

PhD Student, Hopkins Marine Station

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Affiliated Researchers

Hanna is interested in the spatial ecology of highly mobile pelagic fish species in relation to environmental drivers. In particular, she is intrigued by questions relating to fisheries interactions and how dynamic approaches can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of fisheries management when compared to traditional, stationary approaches.

Danielle Haulsee

levic — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:17:25 +0000

Danielle

Haulsee

Title and Credentials:

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Hopkins Marine Station

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Affiliated Researchers

Danielle’s research interests include environmental drivers of animal movements and distributions in a dynamic ocean, as well as the behavioral ecology of large marine predators. She is interested in utilizing advances in animal tagging, remote sensing, and underwater robotic technology to advance the conservation and management of economically or ecologically important marine species.

Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano

cmmenke — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:05:36 +0000

Angelica

Almeyda Zambrano

Title and Credentials:

Postdoctoral Scholar

Type:

Affiliated Researchers

Department:

Biology

Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano is a postdoctoral research member of the terrestrial ecosystems component of INOGO. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Stanford in 2012 under the direction of Dr. William H. Durham. We was also a graduate student researcher in the Gregory Asner Lab in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institute for Science. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Angelica was a Fellow in the Sustainability Science program at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, where her advisor was Dr. William Clark. She completed her Master’s in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida with a specialization in Conservation and Development in the Tropics, and her B.A. in Forestry Science at the National Agricultural University La Molina.

Her doctoral thesis compared the impacts of the developmental politics of transportation infrastructure and the possession of land in land-use by small producers in the area of the tri-national border between Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia in the southeastern Amazon. She has also conducted research about the socio-economic and environmental effects of sustainable tourism in Costa Rica, about the microclimates and physiology of tropical forests in Hawaii, and continues to participate in forest ecology projects related to nutrient cycling of slash-and burn agriculture in the Amazon.

Eben Broadbent

cmmenke — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:18:47 +0000

Eben

Broadbent

Title and Credentials:

Postdoctoral Scholar

Type:

Affiliated Researchers

Eben N. Broadbent is an assistant professor, starting August 2014, in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama where he co-directs the Spatial Ecology and Conservation (SPEC) Lab and is an affiliated researcher with the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His general research interests are to use new spatial technologies for conservation ecology and sustainability science. From 2012-14 he was a postdoctoral fellow with INOGO, where he coordinated fieldwork, including participatory mapping efforts, related to the terrestrial ecosystem component and currently leads the INOGO Mapas effort developing automated techniques to map land use and land cover from high-resolution satellite imagery. In 2012-13, he served as a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute linking the ForestGEO plot network with global deforestation data and with Harvard Forest using coupled models of land use, forest composition and disturbance, and ecosystem services to assess impacts of different future scenarios in New England. Prior to this he served as a research fellow in the Sustainability Science Program of the Harvard Kennedy School.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in botany from the University of Vermont in 2000, where he investigated niche partitioning among tree canopy cloud forest epiphytes in Costa Rica. He obtained his master's degree in forestry from the University of Florida in 2005, where his thesis linked field measurements of forest regeneration in selective logging tree fall gaps in Bolivia with spectral unmixing of ASTER satellite imagery. He then received his doctorate in Biology from Stanford University in 2012, where his dissertation focused on using remote sensing to understand forest dynamics in the tropics. Funding for this research came from NSF and NASA, and from the DOE GCEP program where he was a research fellow. Over the last decade he has conducted research in the Brazilian, Bolivian, and Peruvian Amazon, Papua Indonesia, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and also including work in California and in his childhood forests of New England. He is involved in a variety of projects linking social sciences with forest ecology, conservation biology and remote sensing, including investigating feedbacks between soil fertility and land use decision making in the Amazon and linking land use change with water quality and biodiversity in Costa Rica.

Carter Hunt

maigari — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:44:43 +0000

Carter

Hunt

Title and Credentials:

Assistant Professor

Type:

Affiliated Researchers

School:

Humanities and Sciences

Department:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Carter Hunt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at The Pennsylvania State University. Between 2009-2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Anthropology at Stanford University mentoring under Dr. William Durham. His primary research interests focus on tourism-supported biodiversity conservation projects and the ways in which rural residents negotiate the livelihood changes associated with rural tourism development around parks and protected areas. Dr. Hunt has carried out research in the Guatemalan highlands, the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the Galapagos Islands, the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua and in the Osa Peninsula region of Costa Rica. At the Woods Institute for the Environment, Dr. Hunt worked intimately with INOGO collaborators during the initial phases of the Initiative, dedicating particular effort to field research efforts that provided data for the alternative future scenarios and the social diagnostic of the Osa-Golfito region.

Dr. Hunt obtained his M.S. and his PhD from the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M, and a B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1997. His dissertation ethnographically examined rural residents' reactions to the rapid development of tourism and ecotourism transforming the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the Anthropology of Ecotourism & Tourism, People and Parks, Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Problems, Social and Environmental Sustainability, Conservation and Development Dilemmas in Latin America, and Qualitative Research Methods.