Ph.D. candidate Marisol Valverde conducts research in the Brazilian Amazon on ecological and biodiversity in freshwater habitats. Working with Alex Flecker at Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, she was supported by a 2023 Cornell Atkinson Sustainable Biodiversity Fund grant.
Marisol Valverde Montellano is a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology whose summer research is focused on freshwater soundscapes and species community structure and dynamics with a focus on fishes, primarily through work at the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. Valvderde Montellano said her work is strongly field-based, as currently there are very few acoustic recordings of tropical freshwaters. Additionally, she said spending so much time in the field has been really important to gain a better understanding of Amazonian lakes, their inhabitants and dynamics. "I hope that in the same way we use acoustic monitoring for birds and anurans, we can use it one day to monitor fishes, particularly in highly-diverse and remote regions such as the Amazon River Basin, where thousands of people rely on fisheries," she said. More at https://lnkd.in/gdAW9dFb