Linking the Marine Ecosystem to Marine Aerosols: Field Campaign in the Galapagos Islands
April 14, 2020
People: Will Vizuete This project is funded by the Center for Galapagos Studies Seed Grant.
Research Category: Seed Grant
Grass Genomes X Environments: A hypothesis/discovery-based approach connecting genome with the phenome of plant habit and behavior in natural settings
January 28, 2020
People: Corbin Jones and Alan 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 … Read more
Feasibility of Educational Support Measures for Parenting Skills and Mental Health Symptoms in Mothers of Young Children in the Galapagos
January 28, 2020
People: Julee Waldrop, Betty Martinez, Alasia Ledford, Amanda Thompson, and Hannah Jahnke This past summer (2019) our team continued to build on prior research performed by Center for Galapagos researchers, as well as Dr. Thompson’s and Hannah Jahnke’s current work. … Read more
Water Cycling and Critical Zone Processes in the Tropics: The Galapagos as a Natural Laboratory
January 28, 2020
People: Xiaoming Liu and Diego Riveros-Iregui This project examines the relationship between precipitation inputs (i.e., fog, rainfall), ecosystem water use, water storage, and water availability, with the goal of assessing the fate of precipitation, evaluating ecosystem function, and determining water … Read more