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Exploring prenatal stress and its influence on maternal placental physiology and infant development in Galapagos
Recent UNC PhD graduate Dr. Hannah Jahnke and team including UNC’s Dr. Amanda Thompson and USFQ’s Dr. Enrique Teran have published a paper in Placenta titled “Maternal stress, placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2, and infant HPA axis development in humans: Psychosocial … Continued
How microbes respond to environmental shifts helps understand energy flow in Galapagos’ waters
UNC researchers Scott Gifford, Harvey Seim and Adrian Marchetti as well as MS candidate Liang Zhao have recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology in a paper titled “Microbial Niche Diversification in the Galapagos Archipelago and Its response to El Niño.” … Continued
Groundbreaking work on distribution and evolution of Scalesia
USFQ researcher and UNC Adjunct Faculty, Dr. Gonzalo Rivas-Torres and his team, have collaborated with the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid to show one of the most important results of their “Scalesia project” that seeks to explore evolutionary, ecological, and … Continued
UNC alumnus and Founder of Island Innovation, James Ellsmoor, works to understand COVID-19’s impact on islands globally
UNC alumnus and Founder of Island Innovation, James Ellsmoor (BA ’16), has collaborated with the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) and launched a survey aiming to better understand how Covid-19 was being dealt with on islands globally. … Continued
High-resolution drone and aerial imagery helps engage farmers in Galapagos highlands
UNC undergraduate Mia Colloredo-Mansfeld, UNC PhD candidate Francisco Laso and UNC researcher Javier Arce-Nazario have engaged farmers in mapping their own land and shared aerial images with them in order to further the sharing of agricultural knowledge. This latest publication … Continued
First High-Resolution Land Cover Maps of Humid Highlands in the Galapagos
UNC PhD candidate Francisco Laso alongside UNC researcher Javier Arce-Nazario and other partners from Universidad San Francisco de Quito have published the first high-resolution land cover maps of the humid highlands in the Galapagos. The humid highlands include the region’s … Continued