Ciencia Puerto Rico

I am currently working with the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research Program (LTER), where I sample shrimp and fishes in streams of the Luquillo Experimental Forest (El Yunque). I am also working with LTER databases to try to relate how environmental variables affect shrimp populations. I also run experiments in laboratory settings to relate the effect of predatory fishes to shrimp behavior.

In Florida International University, I am participating in preliminary experiments that will test the ecological role of shrimp and crayfish in the Everglades. I will use this data and compare it to data I will generate in Puerto Rico through experiments and predictive models that will try to examine the role of exotic crayfish in freshwater ecosystems of the island.