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: 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: 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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
People: Steve Walsh, Francisco Laso, Richard Bilsborrow, Brian Frizzelle, Laura Brewington, Yang Shao, Hernando Mattei, and Phil Page. This project is designed to synthesize land cover/land use change (LCLUC) patterns on islands and to assess the drivers of change. We … Read more
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 … Read more
