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.