Confluence Research Discussion Series

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.

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