Peru2018

Hello lovely members of PFTC 3! I hope you are all fine. After some days travelling in Perú I have arrived to Uruguay. In south hemisphere we were starting the scholar and working year, so many pending activities were waiting for me when I returned! I immediately wanted to be […]

Verónica (the Uruguayan one) Post-Course Blog Post

23/04/2018 in Peru2018 / Veronica P (Uruguay) tagged TraitTrain by veronicap

My aims for the traits course in Peru were to get a general understanding of trait-based ecology, explore how I could use this approach to answer my own research questions and build network with the other participants on the course. I think I met all my goals for the course, […]

Thank you Peru, I will be back!

17/04/2018 in Peru2018 / Siri H (Norway) tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Going to Peru I surely had hopes and dreams although I had next to nothing to base them off of. Without any doubt even my wildest expectations for Peru were surpassed. As for seeing interesting new (albeit only to me as a northern European) species was startling, especially the wild […]

Making the Connections: «Climate Change and Culture Part 2»

17/04/2018 in Erik K (Norway) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I came back to Sao Paulo, Brazil, as soon as the course finished and I had forgotten how chaotic is my city. It took me some time to be ready to back to my PhD project. Now I am focused in my leaves and their venation looking forward to processing […]

A happy back to reality

17/04/2018 in Leonardo H (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I’m writing this in my Norwegian office, like nothing ever happened. But no, just a couple of weeks ago I was in beautiful Peru. The course was a wonderful experience, a great learning experience in many ways. The course has fully met my expectations and objectives. I set out to the […]

Back in the lowlands

12/04/2018 in Peru2018 / Ruben R (Norway) by rubenr

For this course I wanted to learn to how do the temperature response curves and analyses, and in general to learn more about trait-based approaches, field techniques and analyses. I think I realized my goals, not only because I did learn how to use the LiCor 6400 \o/ and understand […]

Post PFTC3 (Andrea)

10/04/2018 in Andrea S-T (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by andreast

My goals for the course were learn about functional traits, be able to work and discuss different topics with people from different backgrounds and non-Spanish speakers and experience different ways of working. I totally reached my goals!! Well, I still need to improve my English but I consider that I […]

Verónica (the mexican one)_PFT3_post-course blog

09/04/2018 in Peru2018 / Veronica M (Mexico) tagged TraitTrain by veronicam

HOLA¡¡ In fact, the Course was one of the most pleasurable experiences I’ve had! The objectives I had for the course were, first of all, to understand the best way, ecology with a focus on functional features that, in reality, was a very novel subject for me. As you already […]

Lucely post-course follow-up

08/04/2018 in Lucely B (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by tracem

The course was a great experience! One of my goals was to get introduced to functional trait science, which was completely fulfilled. Along the course we got hands in to the field and lab, learning how to collect and process leaf traits in an organized and systematic way. We also […]

Miguel.M_ PFTC 3_Post-Course

06/04/2018 in Miguel M (Norway) / Peru2018 tagged Peru / PFTC3 by miguelm

This course to Peru was a wonderful experience. Thanks a bunch to all who were involved! I am super happy to have met everybody who participated and to have started some exciting science with them! My primary goals coming into this course were to meet new people, learn new perspectives, […]

Jon H. Peru final blog post

05/04/2018 in Joh H (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by jonh

The goals of the course for me were twofold: (1) to learn more about plant functional trait collection and how to analyse the data and (2) meet a lot of awesome peers from around the world. I feel that only part of my first goal was achieved; I […]

Wrap-Up for PFTC3 Wayqecha, Peru!

05/04/2018 in Peru2018 / Trace M (Australia) tagged TraitTrain by tracem

HOLA! I’m Lucely Vilca Bustamante, I’m from Peru, specifically from the imperial city of Cusco. Study Biology at Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, take many courses in relation to Ecology and Botany, since that is what interests me the most, collaborate as a field assistant for some researchers who […]

Lucely B pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Lucely B (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

My name is Alyssa and I am a first year PhD student at the University of Arizona. We know that species diversity has profound effects on Earth’s ecosystems, but the effects of intraspecific diversity remains a frontier to be explored. Therefore, I am interested broadly in the ecological importance of […]

Alyssa S pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Alyssa S (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I am Jhonatan Sallo Bravo, I was born in the city of Cusco – Peru, I has studied biology at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad, I am interested in studies like the dynamics of populations, distribution of plant species, diversity (however I am open to new experiences). Currently […]

New Experiences!

06/03/2018 in Jhonathan B (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I am from São Paulo, Brazil. My studies has been focused in plant ecophysiology, I have done works with plant responses to elevated CO 2 and crassulacean acid metabolism. Currently, my interest is on the role of leaf venation in the ecophysiology of trees and how human-disturbance may affect the […]

Leonardo H pre-course Introduction

06/03/2018 in Leonardo H (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

I come from the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where the mountains are short and dry. I have a degree in computer science from Arizona State University and I love writing code, as well as thinking about how to use graphics to visualize ecological patterns. My interests range from large scale […]

Adam C pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Adam C (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello, everyone! I am Anders, a student from Norway, currently doing a Master’s degree in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity at the University in Bergen. I will start writing my thesis this summer, which most likely will be about sexual selection and dimorphism in a monogamous bark beetle native to the […]

Anders I pre-course introduction

06/03/2018 in Anders I (Norway) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

From city to nature – and halfway back Living in the centre of a Northern European capitol my entire life, it might not have been obvious that a city girl would develop a professional interest centred on nature conservation, local biodiversity and landscape ecology. However, spending every other weekend in […]

PFTC: PERFECT FUN-TRAIT COMBO!

06/03/2018 in Peru2018 / Signe K (Denmark) tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello everybody!! I am Erickson Urquiaga, I am from Peru, I am a biologist, my studies I did at Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco and Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. I have special interest on ecology of tropical high mountain vegetation. How this plant communities will response to climate […]

Hello from Erickson Urquiaga

05/03/2018 in Erickson U (Peru) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by sehoyac

Hello everyone! My name is Verónica Pinelli, I´m from a small county to the south: Uruguay. I study biology, more specifically, ecology. I finished my master studies in 2016, and in 2017 I started my PhD studies. I also work as a teacher in a gardening and landscape design technical […]

Verónica_P_Pre-Course Blog Post

03/03/2018 in Peru2018 / Veronica P (Uruguay) tagged TraitTrain by veronicap

My name is Andrea Sánchez Tapia, I am a Colombian biologist living, studying and working in Brazil since 2007. My main scientific interest is to understand human-related drivers of change in different contexts and kinds of vegetation, ideally in order to subsidize restoration actions here in the Tropics. I started […]

From the Andes… to the Andes :)

01/03/2018 in Andrea S-T (Brazil) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by andreast

I’m a Sonoran Desert native. Madrean sky islands have inspired an awe for nature since I was just a child. Today, I look into the hearts of giant conifer trees for memories of prerecorded climate—poetic and rigorous. By using these tree rings as proxies of past climate I am able […]

Kai_L_Pre-Course Blog Post

28/02/2018 in Kai L (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by kail

Hola! My name is Jon and I’m a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I focus on using plant functional traits to help understand or predict how plant communities might change under future conditions. These future conditions that interest me include the spread of invasive species, warming […]

Jon Henn Peru Introduction!

28/02/2018 in Joh H (USA) / Peru2018 tagged TraitTrain by jonh

Who am I? My name is Ruben Roos and I am originally from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During my master’s I discovered that the Netherlands is very crowded and that alpine and arctic biomes are much cooler (pun intended) than maritime and flatland ones. I therefore spent a summer and autumn […]

Born below sea level, now going to the Andes!

28/02/2018 in Peru2018 / Ruben R (Norway) tagged TraitTrain by rubenr

What is your background? Where are you from? What do you study? What are you most interested in, scientifically? My name is Miguel, I am from Madrid, Spain. Currently I am a PhD student at NMBU in Norway. With my project I try to understand how competition and disturbance […]

Miguel_M_Pre-Course Blog Post

27/02/2018 in Miguel M (Norway) / Peru2018 by miguelm

Hi! I’ m Paul, a plant ecologist, and data enthusiast. This post is the first step in my own adventure at the Plant Functional Traits Course 3. I graduated in Biology at the University of San Antonio Abad at Cusco, Peru. During the last years, I have collaborated with the […]

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