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| THE FEELEY LAB I am accepting new graduate students for Fall 2012. For more information see here.  Kenneth James Feeley (CV) Assistant Professor of Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology Florida International University Department of Biological Sciences, OE 238 Miami, FL 33199 USA T: 305-348-7316 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Center for Tropical Plant Conservation 11935 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156 USA T: 305-667-1651 x3434 E: kjfeeley at gmail dot com PhD Students  Brian Machovina received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida International University, where he studied the ecology of Amphiuma means, a salamander, in Everglades National Park. He then spent several years as a research assistant at FIU studying seagrass communities in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Brian moved to Los Angeles to establish a rainforest conservation foundation, Oasis Preserve International, which helped establish the Los Amigos Conservation Concession and Los Amigos Biological Station in Amazonian Peru. Subsequently, he worked for several years with Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products, where he helped pioneer a rainforest-harvested tea, Guayaki Yerba Mate, as a model of market-driven conservation and reforestation. Brian was also the Executive Director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance, a coalition of environmental advocacy organizations preventing water pollution and promoting kelp reforestation. Brian was also an owner and manager of Essential Living Foods, an importer of organic and wild-harvested commodities. Brian’s research interests for his doctoral degree at FIU involve the roles of agroeology in rainforest conservation.  After completing a Master's degree from the State University of New York, Evan Rehm has spent the last several years overseas studying threatened and endangered birds. He has worked with Mariana Crows (Corvus kubaryi) in Rota, Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens (Malurus coronatus) in Australia and the Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Loxigilla portoricensis). Evan's background is in avian ecology but he intends to study tree line dynamics in the Peruvian Andes and the role of high elevation birds as seed dispersers. Evan hopes to establish a dynamic network of partnerships ultimately leading to increased conservation in South America. personal website: http://bioserv.fiu.edu/erehm/Welcome.html Masters Students  Catherine Bravo obtained her bachelor degree in Biology after studying tree composition and diversity of a mountain forest in Peru, her home country. She then worked in several environmental projects as part of the botany team. During the last few years, she worked as an educational and training assistant for the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), through the Global Programs and Partnerships Division, organizing and designing field courses for students and professionals from Andean countries. More recently, Catherine was working for the Network of Conservation Educators & Practitioners, an initiative of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History to strengthen the capacity in science and conservation in Peruvian universities. For her Masters studies, Catherine is studying the dynamic of cloud forests in the Central Andes of Peru. Visiting Researhers  Yu Mingjian is an associate professor of plant ecology in the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, China. His major research interest is community and ecosystem ecology in subtropical forests. He and his colleagues in CAS established a 24-ha forest dynamics plot since 2005 in Gutianshan National Natural Reserve, China,where his lab researchs species-area relationships, the joint effects of habitat heterogeneity and dispersal limitation on maintenance of species diversity, and the role of gaps in forest dynamics. He and his lab are also involved with several large studies researching the islands in Thousand Island Lake – a man-made reservoir formed by damming a river in 1959 in Zhejiang province. Working with birds and plants on over 150 islands they are investigating the effects of habitat fragmentation on species diversity and community assembly and the mechanisms impacting biodiversity dynamics. Dr. Yu is visiting the Feeley Lab for the fall 2010 semester to build on existing collaborations looking at forest structure and community responses to habitat fragmentation, and other related questions.  Hu Guang received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from ZhejiangUniversity, China. He is currently a PhD student in College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University under Prof. Yu Mingjian. His primary research interests are community and landscape ecology in fragmented habitats. He has studied plant communities for several years in the Thousand Island Lake (TIL), a natural laboratory for habitat fragmentation and metacommunity dynamics. Guang led a group to investigate the plant species composition on more than 150 islands and established several long-term plots on 25 islands in TIL. He hopes to study the mechanisms of species maintenance and community assemblage in the fragmented landscape. Guang Hu is visiting the Feeley Lab at FIU during Aug 2010-Jan 2011. Guang will collaborate with Dr. Feeley and his colleagues on the effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Field Personnel  Flor Zamora  Nelson Cahuana |
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