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 … Continued

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 … Continued

People: Alan Jones and Corbin Jones Unraveling the rules of life requires that we understand how the total collection of genes shapes life form, physiology, and behavior. Here, we take an integrative approach to this question by characterizing the genomes … Continued

People: Steve Walsh, Laura Brewington, Yang Shao, Francisco Laso, and Phil Page This project aims to characterize the human dimension on islands through an image time-series generated from Digital Globe and Planet Labs data, particularly, small-scale agriculture and the rural-urban … Continued

People: Steve Walsh, Laura Brewington, Phil Page, and Brian Frizzelle  The goals of the project are to (1) describe a beach vulnerability framework for assessing the Galapagos Islands, with implication for other similarly challenged island ecosystems, and (2) assess the … Continued

People: Steve Walsh, Kim Engie, Phil Page, and Brian Frizzelle Contemporary fisheries in the Galapagos are the product of the legacy of overfishing, when the lobster and sea cucumber fisheries were severely crippled through overexploitation. Associated with the degradation of … Continued

People: Bryan Reatini, María de Lourdes Torres, Hugo Valdebenito, and Todd Vision This project, led by UNC-CH doctoral candidate Bryan Reatini, investigates the causes and consequences of hybridization between native and introduced plant species in the Galapagos islands. Some of … Continued

People: Alyssa Grube and Jill Stewart Antibiotic resistance represents one of our generation’s most pressing global public health challenges, with the number of deaths from antibiotic resistant infections projected to exceed cancer deaths by 2050. While antibiotic resistance is well-studied in … Continued