{"id":1195,"date":"2026-08-27T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/?page_id=1195"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:42:21","slug":"bci-edge-people-and-institutions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/bci-edge-people-and-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"BCI EDGE \u2014 People and institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ffabee52 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#173d2c;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#c8d9cf;font-size:0.8rem;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase\">BCI EDGE \u00b7 Collaboration<\/p><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:clamp(2.8rem, 6vw, 5rem);line-height:1.03\">People and institutions<\/h1><p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#dce9e1;font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.542), 1.2rem);line-height:1.7\">A multi-institutional team connecting tropical field ecology, long-term forest monitoring, population genomics, evolutionary biology and chemical ecology.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a8cf6cc7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#f5f3ed;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#527563;font-size:0.8rem;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase\">Project leadership<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#173d2c;font-size:clamp(2rem, 4vw, 3.3rem)\">Collaborative by design<\/h2><p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.342), 1.08rem);line-height:1.75\">BCI EDGE brings together investigators, postdoctoral researchers, technicians, field teams and collaborators working across North America and Panama.<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"line-height:1.8\"><li>Andy Jones \u00b7 Oregon State University<\/li><li>Helene Muller-Landau, Owen McMillan, Stuart Davies, Josh Tewksbury, Erin Spear and Joe Wright \u00b7 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute<\/li><li>Noah Whiteman and Dan Rokhsar \u00b7 University of California, Berkeley<\/li><li>Camilo Zalamea \u00b7 University of South Florida<\/li><li>Brian Sedio \u00b7 The University of Texas at Austin<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a8cf6cc7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#527563;font-size:0.8rem;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase\">Partnership<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#173d2c;font-size:clamp(2rem, 4vw, 3.3rem)\">Institutions working across scales<\/h2><p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.342), 1.08rem);line-height:1.75\">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.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a8cf6cc7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#f5f3ed;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#527563;font-size:0.8rem;letter-spacing:0.12em;text-transform:uppercase\">Training<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#173d2c;font-size:clamp(2rem, 4vw, 3.3rem)\">Building the next generation of forest scientists<\/h2><p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.342), 1.08rem);line-height:1.75\">Postdoctoral fellows, students, technicians and field teams are central to the observatory. Training spans field natural history, experimental ecology, genomics, bioinformatics and quantitative analysis.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0888539d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#e3ebe5;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/research\/\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#173d2c\">BCI EDGE overview<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCI EDGE \u00b7 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 \u00b7 Oregon State University Helene Muller-Landau, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3794,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3CtpG-jh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/joneslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}