BCI EDGE · Collaboration

People and institutions

A multi-institutional team connecting tropical field ecology, long-term forest monitoring, population genomics, evolutionary biology and chemical ecology.

Project leadership

Collaborative by design

BCI EDGE brings together investigators, postdoctoral researchers, technicians, field teams and collaborators working across North America and Panama.

  • Andy Jones · Oregon State University
  • Helene Muller-Landau, Owen McMillan, Stuart Davies, Josh Tewksbury, Erin Spear and Joe Wright · Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  • Noah Whiteman and Dan Rokhsar · University of California, Berkeley
  • Camilo Zalamea · University of South Florida
  • Brian Sedio · The University of Texas at Austin

Partnership

Institutions working across scales

The project joins Oregon State University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, UC Berkeley, the University of South Florida and The University of Texas at Austin, with support from the Simons Foundation.

Training

Building the next generation of forest scientists

Postdoctoral fellows, students, technicians and field teams are central to the observatory. Training spans field natural history, experimental ecology, genomics, bioinformatics and quantitative analysis.