People: Gregory Lewbart, Kenneth Lohmann, Maximilian Hischfeld, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Daniela Alarcon-Ruales, Diane Deresienski, Eli Cohen, et. al Virtually nothing is known about the physiological and health parameters of wildlife in Galapagos. With such small and isolated populations, these animals … Read more
People: Gregory Lewbart, Kenneth Lohmann, Maximilian Hirschfeld, Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez, Daniela Alcarón, Diane Deresienski, William Moore Drive, Ronald K. Passingham, Gregory Scott, Eli Cohen, and Olivia Petritz The marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, is an iconic lizard endemic to the Galapagos … Read more
People: Diego Riveros-Iregui, Elizabeth Anne Shank, Will Larsen, Sarah May Yannarell, Alexi Van Ess, Jia Hu, Alex Beebe, Courtney Price, Caroline MacVicar, and Katarzyna M. Dubiel The goal of this project is to understand the operation of the hydrological cycle … Read more
People: Carlos Mena, Phil Page, Steve Walsh, María Sampedro, Lorena Benítez, Patricia Martínez, María Belén Zapata, Manuel Narváez, Fernando Astudillo, Ariel Pila, Ricardo Torres, and Cristian Javier Serrano Heredia The beaches of the Galapagos Islands are substantially affected by the … Read more
People: Carlos Carrión, Paul Taillie, Ana Carrión, Daniel Armijos Vega, and Cristian Sevilla The goal of this project is to estimate the abundance and habitat occupancy of the endemic rat of Santiago Island (Nesoryzomys swarthi) and its relationship with introduced rodent … Read more
People: Antonio León Reyes, Noelia Barriga, Dario Ramírez, Corbin Jones, Beth Shank, Alexi Ann Van Ess, Sarah May Yannarell, Gabrielle Marie Grandchamp, and Diego Riveros-Iregui Gossypium darwinii, or Darwin´s cotton, is an endemic bush from the Malvaceae family found in … Read more
People: Cynthia Fraga Rizo, Mimi Chapman, Rain Masa, and Natalia Villegas Rodriguez Although youth in the Galapagos face many of the same social and health problems that young people face on Ecuador’s mainland and elsewhere in Latin America, the unique … Read more
People: Will Vizuete This project is funded by the Center for Galapagos Studies Seed Grant.
People: Hannah Jahnke, Amanda Thompson, Margaret Bentley, and Enrique Terán This project, led by UNC-CH doctoral candidate Hannah Jahnke, examines the effects of maternal distress during and after pregnancy on infant development in the Galapagos Islands, where geographic isolation, food … Read more
People: Khristopher Nicholas, Margaret Bentley, and Amanda Thompson This research project, led by doctoral student Khristopher Nicholas, explores food environments in the Galapagos islands, their determinants, and how they impact diets and health. For this work, the team is first devising … Read more
