Dr. Daniel Kramer, James Madison College and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Email dbk@msu.edu. |
Dr. Gerald Urquhart, Lyman Briggs College and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Email urquhart@msu.edu. |
| Dr. Kramer leads the "human" (social, economic, and community) side of the research project. He is an conservation economist with a joint appointment between James Madison College and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. His research examines the social, economic, and policy aspects of conservation. Professor Kramer’s teaching interests include domestic and international environmental policy, sustainable development, globalization and the environment, the social economic, and policy aspects of conservation biology, game theory, and quantitative methods. |
Dr Urquhart is leading the "natural" (biodiversity and natural resources) side of the research project. He is a tropical ecologist with a joint appointment between Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Dr. Urquhart's research focuses on the impacts of human and natural disturbances on tropical rainforests. He has conducted research in Nicaragua since 1992, spanning a wide range of topics including hurricanes, paleoecology, and biodiversity. |
Dr. Andrea Allen, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Studies in International Development
email: allenan9@msu.edu
Dr. Allen has is an anthropologist with 20 years of experience addressing international development issues, with expertise in gender and development, indigenous populations, agribusiness, natural resource management and participatory methods. She has worked with CARE and US-AID on a wide range of projects. She also assessed field programs to improve project design and reporting related to socio-economic, gender and agribusiness initiatives. She holds a Ph.D. degree in anthropology and speaks fluent Spanish.
Dr. Aaron McCright, Department of Sociology and Lyman Briggs College
Dr. Jiaguo Qi, Director, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, Department of Geography
 Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (URACCAN)
Diala Lopez, Ms.C., Coordinator, Institute for Natural Resources, Environment, and Sustainable Development (IREMADES)
Kirkman Roe, M.Sc. , CHANS Project Coordinator, Institute for Natural Resources, Environment, and Sustainable Development (IREMADES)
Graduate Student Researchers
Kara Stevens
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Email stevenskara@yahoo.com. |
Christopher Jordan
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Email jordan41@msu.edu.
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| Kara's research interests are focused on the impacts of agriculture on conservation in a landscape matrix. Specifically, she is interested in the impact of agricultural intensification on pollination, both in agricultural and protected habitats. Kara has worked in Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bolivia and truly understands the meaning of "remote." |
Chris is researching the potential of local ecological knowledge in conservation biology and the cultural, economic, and ecological roots of that knowledge. He has previously worked with several community-based monitoring projects in the neotropics and the United States and collaborates with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Chris is a frugivore. |
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Undergraduate Student Researchers
- Christine Sarikas, Lyman Briggs College
- Claire Glenn, James Madison College
- Justin Haveman, Lyman Briggs College
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