Visiting Scientists and Students
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Quintin Bergman (2018)

Quintin is a visiting MS student from Purdue University - Fort Wayne, studying the spatial ecology of hawksbills in Costa Rica. Using satellite telemetry to delineate the internesting habitats and foraging sites of hawksbills is an important step in their conservation. Quintin's other interests include trophic ecology and the optimization of conservation efforts for marine megafauna.

 Hector Barrios-Garrido (2017- current)

Hector is interested in understanding the relationships between natural resources and human communities, and has been working with Indigenous communities in the Gulf of Venezuela, especially with community-based conservation since 1997. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Zulia , Founder-President of the Venezuelan NGO "Working Group on Marine Turtles of the Gulf of Venezuela - GTTM-GV", member of the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), and the Marine Turtle Specialist Group-International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN MTSG-).

Robson Carvalho (2017)

Robson is interested in understanding how direct and indirect human activities, such as fishing , ingestion of marine debris, and especially climate change affect sea turtle populations in Brazil. He is currently a PhD student (2016-2020) in the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Juiz de Fora, where he studies the influences of climate change on the breeding of green turtles at  Brazilian islands.

Tawane Nunes (summer 2017)

Visiting undergraduate student from ​ the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles at the Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil.  Tawane is working on a project  on marine debris and it's ingestion by green turtles (Chelonia mydas), comparing the types, forms and colors of marine debris available on the environment with those ingested by stranded turtles.

Jonathan Monsinjon (summer 2017)

 Jonathan is doing his PhD at the Université Paris-Sud, France  modelling the development of sea turtle embryos and predicting the primary sex ratio of various populations under climate change constraints. He  enjoys field work and interacting with local communities which gives him perspectives beyond computing science.

Ian Silver-Gorges (summer 2016, 2017, 2018)

Ian is a visiting student from Oberlin College and Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he is pursuing a Masters in Biology with Dr. Frank Paladino.

 Ronaldo Santos Junior (Summer 2015)

 Exchange undergraduate student  through the Program Sciences without Borders (Brazil) from ​ the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles at the Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil.