Undergraduate researchers

Stephanie Nuñez

Biochemistry | Class of 2023

Stephanie has been working on her capstone project on herbivory damage and secondary metabolites in herbacous native Texan plants along a plant species richness gradient.

Mandy Tran

B.S. Environmental Science (Biology), Public Policy Certificate | Class of 2024

Mandy has been working on quantifying the growth-defense tradeoff in herbacous native Texan plants and how it relates to ecosystem functioning.

Rosalva Bravo Ozuna

B.S.A Chemistry, B.S. Biology: Marine and Freshwater Sciences | Class of 2023

Rosie has been working on automating the process of quantifying understory light availability along tropical forest succession.

Sophia De Mendoza

Sophia has been working on analyzing leaf area photos from seedlings along tropical forest succession.

Sivani Balaji

B.S. Biology | Class of 2026

Sivani has been working on digitizing field data on community and ecosystem level processes.