This podcast is with Efrain Escudero PhD (c) and Jeffrey Lackmann. The podcast took place at Las Cruces Biological Station in southern Costa Rica in June of 2021.
You can find a short aerial film produced by Portent Tide of the station and gardens here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJFN6_mQM4&t=15s
Efrain is completing his PhD into the interaction between fungi and coffee plantations - particularly focused within Costa Rica. Jeffrey Lackmann is completing his Masters degree thesis into fungi growing within the leaves of coffee plants (endophytes).
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Estefania Fernandez is in the 5th year of completing her PhD dissertation into facilitating the process of tropical forest recovery, particularly through focusing on the decomposition process of logs and patterns related to this. This conversation took place at Las Cruces Biological Station/Wilson Botanical Gardens in June of 2021. A location operated by the Organization of Tropical Studies.
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Dr. Gloriana Chaverri is an Associate Professor a the University of Costa Rica and a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Gloriana completed her PhD in bat mating systems. Her lab (Chaverrilab) is based out of Golfito in south western Costa Rica and explores research related to ecology, behavior and sensory information - primarily related to bats.
Reference to Glorianna's research: Chaverri G, Gillam EH. 2013 Sound amplification by means of a horn-like roosting structure in Spix's disc-winged bat. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2362)
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Rodolfo Quiros Flores is a biologist with a focus in botany and is the logistical manager of the Las Cruces Biological Station. The station is situated within the Wilson Botanical Gardens nearby San Vito in southern Costa Rica. The Las Cruces Biological Station is connected with the Organization for Tropical Studies, one of three biological stations operated by OTS in Costa Rica. You can find a short aerial film produced by Portent Tide of the station and gardens here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJFN6_mQM4
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https://tropicalstudies.org/portfolio/las-cruces-research-station/
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