Confluence Spring 2026

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Siria Gámez
PhD. Candidate
Title: Canopy Critters: Arboreal Biodiversity in an Agroecological Landscape in Chiapas, Mexico
Bio: Siria is a 5th-year PhD student at YSE whose research is based in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico. Combining classical and applied ecology, her dissertation explores questions about biodiversity on agricultural landscapes, arboreal niche partitioning in mammals, and large carnivore conservation.

Alma Trujillo Miranda
PhD. Candidate
Title: Natural enemy impacts on tropical seedling regeneration at forest edge versus interior
Bio: Alma's Ph.D. dissertation research focuses on understanding how landscape and local factors modulate edge effects on plant diversity and regeneration, using palm species in northwestern Ecuador as a study system.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Refined Habitat Suitability Modeling of Japanese Barberry
Kellen Moore, MESc Student

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

🔘 María Gallegos Koyner, MESc Student
Topic: Tropical Tree Seedling Performance in the Dry vs the Wet Season
🔘 Peter VanderBloomer, MESc Student
Topic: Ecological Outcomes of Swidden–Fallow Agroforestry in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

Confluence is a weekly student speaker series that celebrates and highlights diverse research topics within YSE. The event will be on Thursdays from 4-5 in Sage 24 and available to watch on Zoom. Confluence is for the entire YSE community and we invite you to attend and support your peers (and enjoy a good meal!) every Thursday.

This week's speakers will be:
Aymane Eddahmani, PhD Candidate
Heat or Eat: How preferences over basic needs shape climate vulnerabilities
Aymane is a Fulbright scholar and a 5th year PhD candidate. His works focuses on understanding how preferences shape wellbeing outcomes in households experiencing poverty

Alyssa Menz, PhD Candidate
Building the Organizational Capacity to Fight versus Fold: Sustaining a Beyond-Profit Purpose Over Time Amid Industry Pressures
Alyssa Menz is a YSE doctoral candidate studying corporate sustainability. Her dissertation focuses on how organizations can create and sustain a beyond-profit purpose -- pursuing positive environmental and social impacts alongside financial success. Prior to Yale, Alyssa spent five years working at the intersection of corporate sustainability and international development specializing in climate-focused entrepreneurship and innovation, decarbonization, and energy policy. She holds a bachelor's from Columbia University and a master's from the University of Oxford.