Meet Our Team

  • Catherine Hulshof, PhD

    PI. I study contemporary patterns of biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales, ranging from variation in species traits to gradients in the assembly and dynamics of ecological communities.

    Catherine is co-founder of Collaboratory.

    Curriculum vitae

  • Pablo López Bustamante

    PhD Student - Plant functional trait variation in tropical dry forests

    Research Infographic

  • Perla Ortiz-Colín

    PhD Student - Climate change in the tropical dry forest - wet forest ecotone

  • Cat Terry

    Post-bacc researcher - Lepidoptera research in Puerto Rico: Connecting the past to the future

    Research Poster

Lab Alumni

  • Robyn Dudrick

    Senior Lab and Field Technician

    ALTA Story Map

  • Megan Gaitan

  • Ramón Agosto Díaz

    Puerto Rico Field Manager

  • Emelia Obodum Kusi

    MSc. The effects of abiotic and biotic factors on species distribution models.

    PhD Student, University of Massachusetts

  • Allyson Richins

    MSc. Plant-pollinator networks in a serpentine savannah.

    Data analytics. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico.

  • Claudia Gárnica Díaz

    MSc. Plant functional diversity across climatic and edaphic gradients in Puerto Rico.

    PhD Student, University of Florida Gainesville

  • Dayneris Aparicio Jiménez

    MSc. Effects of forest cover on the recovery of diurnal butterflies after Hurricane Maria.

  • Amelia Mateo Jiménez

    MSc. Phenology of tropical dry forests of the Caribbean.

    Instructor, UASD

All-Star Undergraduate Alumni

  • Eric Escobar-Chena, a biology major who will graduate in December, is a teaching assistant in a VCU entomology course and works in VCU's "bug lab." (Photo by Kevin Morley, University Marketing

    Eric Escobar-Chena

    Ecological Society of America SEEDS Inaugural Chapter President at VCU

    In the Bug Lab

  • Mariangeli Echevarría Ramos

    Phenotypic variation of the Puerto Rican monarch

  • Luis Velázquez Román

    Species distribution models of Puerto Rican butterflies and effects of future climate change

  • Oscar Ojeda Cana

    Digitization of Lepidoptera collections of Puerto Rico

  • Andrea Manzano Castro

    Origin and diversity of plant species in supermarkets of Puerto Rico