I've started this blog to document my travels and research in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. I am a Ph.D student at the University of North Carolina, in the Dept. of Geography, working in the Landscape Characterization and Spatial Analysis Lab under the supervision of Steve Walsh. As I have just completed the first year of the Ph.D program, my research objective have not been concretely defined, but my research interests are plant ecology dynamics, feedbacks between plants and the environment, advanced remote sensing techniques, and computer modeling as pertain to mangrove forests in the Galapagos Islands. This summer I will be traveling to the Galapagos Islands (namely Isabela, Santa Cruz, and San Cristobal) for exploratory research - to investigate the current state of mangrove forests in the Galapagos, collect sample field data for the calibration of remote sensing imagery, and to meet my collaborators in the Galapagos.
I will be leaving on Wednesday to join Steve in the Galapagos to meet with scientists at the Charles Darwin Research Station to examine and discuss our research objectives in the coming years. Thus forthcoming posts through the month of June will be posted from the field, after which this blog will continue as a professional posting of my research.
