Birds

My research program broadly focuses on the evolution, population genetics, and ecology of (mostly) birds. I generate questions from genetic methods derived from both field-based sampling and museum specimens. I started studying birds as an undergraduate and it remains the focus

Camu Camu

In collaboration with Dr. Juan Carlos Castro Gomez and La Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (Iquitos, Perú) I have been studying various aspect of the tropical fruit shrub camu camu (Myrciaria dubia). Camu camu is a common Amazonian shrub of oxbow lakes that is