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: 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
People: Steve Walsh, Richard Bilsborrow, Laura Brewington, Yang Shao, Hernando Mattei, Francisco Laso, Phil Page, and Brian Frizzelle This project is designed to synthesize land cover/land use change (LCLUC) patterns on islands and to assess the drivers of change. We … Continued
People: Xiaoming Liu, 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 availability … Continued
People: Francisco Laso, Steve Walsh, and Javier Arce-Nazario Farmers on the Galapagos Islands face a confluence of environmental and social challenges, including severe droughts, extreme climatic events (El Niño/La Niña), encroaching invasive species, a lack of affordable labor, and relentless … Continued
