Juan Pablo Gómez

Principal Investigator

PhD. University of Florida
Assistant Professor
Departamento de Química y Biología
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla

Juanita Aldana-Dominguez

Principal Investigator

PhD. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Assistant Professor
Departamento de Química y Biología
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla

Elena Ortiz Acevedo

Associate Resarcher

PhD. University of Florida
e.ortiz.acevedo at gmail.com
Elena is an entomologist and butterfly specialist. She has plenty of experience in butterfly collections, phylogenetics and systematics. Her research has focused on understanding systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies and in particular a colorful group in the Nymphalidae family. She is currently a professor at the British International School in Barranquilla.

Sergio Chaparro Herrera

Associate Researcher

sergioupn at gmail.com
Sergio joined our lab as a staff scientist. He is mainly working on the project related to the influence of environmental gradients on bird community composition but has also actively participated and come up with a number of projects and proposals investigating the systematics of Glaucidium brasilianum, ecology and conservation of Megascops gilesi and creation of environemental niche models for all species of the dry forests in Colombia. He is one of the lead researchers in the Atlapetes project that investigates the ecology and natural history of a recently re-discovered bird species in Colombia that was thought to be extinct since the 70's. 

Carrol Gómez

Associate Researcher

carrolgomezd at gmail.com
Carrol's research interests lie in the fields of Social-Ecological Systems, Environmental Justice, and Remote sensing. In her MS thesis she plans to propose and start answering questions related to landscape change and its implications for local communities in the Colombian Caribbean. She is currently pursuing her Master degree in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at University of Washington.

Students

Jose Alejandro Vergara
PhD. Natural Sciences.

Jose is funded by the Bicentenario fellowships from Ministerio de Ciencias of Colombia. His research interests are focused on functional ecology of birds and how can we use it to design environmentally friendly cattle landscapes that preserve correct ecosystem functioning and ecological processes. Jose is also a lecturer at Universidad de Cordoba in Montería

Meriele Rebolledo
​PhD. Natural Sciences

Meriele is a Biologist and recent graduate from our Master's program in Natural Sciences. She is one of the recipients of the Bicentenario Scholarships from the National Ministry of Sciences in Colombia to pursue her PhD. She is broadly interested on pollination systems and their implications on plant's reproductive success. In the last years, she has focused her interests on understandign how the study of functional traits involved in plant-animal interactions and climatic niches help understand the selective forces that favor evolutionary transitions in pollinations systems in tropical plants.

Master Natural Sciences

Juan Salvador Mendoza

His thesis focuses on studying population dynamics and conservation of American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in shore swamps of the Magdalena department in Colombia.

Julieth A. Prieto

Julieth's interests are focused on conservation and land management. His current job as an officer at Corpamag has inspired her to propose her thesis investigating the distribution of human threats on aquatic mammals and reptiles across the shores of the Magdalena Department.