Professor of Biology at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador. 

• Albuja, L. (1994) Nuevos registros de Saguinus tripartitus en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Neotropical Primates 2: 8-10.

Juan Jose Bravo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador

juanjovincenzo@hotmail.com

Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington (1987); postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Institution; currently on the faculty at University of Michigan.  Research interests include the evolution of modern tropical ecosystems from the earliest angiosperm-dominated environments of the Mesozoic up to and including complex tropical rainforests of the modern Amazon Basin. Specifically, her research efforts have been directed toward reconstructing ancient forests from the patterns of plant litter preserved in the fossil record. Current research efforts are directed toward the extant and fossil history of vines and lianas and their role in ecosystems over time. Research projects involve: liana distribution and diversity in Amazonian Ecuador; Miocene fossil plants from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia; and plant taphonomy in tropical lowlands of South America.

• Burnham, R.J. and A. Graham (1999) The History of Netotropical vegetation: new developments and status. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86:546-589.
• Chetana, M. and R. Burnham (1999) Identification of asymmetrically winged samaras from the Western Hemisphere.  Brittonia. 51:1-14. 

Gabriel Carillo Bilbao

Central

gabriel_alberto_c@hotmail.com

Student of Biology at Central in Quito and conducting research for his licenciado on titi monkeys, Callicebus discolor.

Professor of Anatomy at the University of Puerto Rico. 

• Cant, J.G.H. (1990) Feeding ecology of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) at Tikal, Guatemala. Human Evolution 5:269-281.
• Cant, J.G.H. (1986)  Locomotion and feeding postures of spider and howling monkeys: field study and evolutionary interpretation. Folia Primatologica 46: 1-14.

Abigail Derby
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Currently a doctoral student at SUNY, planning to conduct research on the red howlers at Proyecto Primates.

Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis.  Research work in Madagascar and more recently in Ecuador on primate ecology, specifically, on frugivory and seed dispersal. Most recent studies include woolly monkeys and spider monkeys. Undergraduate work was completed at Duke University.  Currently the Director of Learning at RARE - Inspiring Conservation

• Dew, J.L. and Wright, P.C. (1998) Frugivory and seed dispersal by four species of primates in Madgascar's eastern rainforest. Biotropica 30:425-437.
• Dew, L and Wright, P.  (1995)  Conservation implication of seed dispersal by primates in a Malagasy rainforest (Ranomafana National Park).  Biotropica

Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis; postdoctoral research at the Department of Zoology, University of Maryland and the Gentics Laboratory, National Zoo, Smithsonian Institution. Undergraduate work at Cornell University. Currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University.

• Di Fiore, A. and Rodman, P.S.  (2001)  Time allocation patterns of lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) in a neotropical terre firma forest.  International Journal of Primatology 22: 449-480.
• Di Fiore, A. and Rendall, D. (1994)  Evolution of social organization: a reappraisal for primates by using phylogenetic methods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91:9941-9945.

B.A. in Anthroppology from SUNY Stony Brook. Previous research on St. Catherine’s Island, GA (ring-tailed lemurs), Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica (spider monkey) and Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.

Undergraduate work in Biology was completed at Boston University.  Previous research on Morgan Island (Macaca mulatta dominance) and at the Titptini Biodiversity Station in Yasuní (fruiting cycle of a neotropical tree species).  Currently using GIS modeling techniques to examine the effects of trailbuilding on the sustainability of hunting of primate populations in eastern Ecuador. 

• Greenberg, J.  (2000) The effects of road and trailbuilding on primate populations in the Yasuní National Park, Eastern Ecuador.  Paper presented at U.C. Davis.
• Greenberg, J. and Dew, L. (2000) Biologists and bushmeat: Modeling the effects of road and trail building on primate populations in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.  Paper presented at the S.F. Bay Area Conservation Symposium.

Andres Link
Department of Anthropology, New York University
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
al898@nyu.edu

Worked for a year studying woolly and spider monkeys at Proyecto Primates. currently a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at New York University.

Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. Undergraduate work was completed at Michigan State University. Research in Yasuní was primarily at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station run by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Boston University. 

• Kostrub, Chelsea E. (1997) Preliminary field observations of golden-mantled tamarins, Saguinus tripartitus, in eastern Ecuador. Neotropical Primates 5:102-103

Melissa Moreano
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador

Completed a licenciado in Biology at P.U.C.E. by conducting research on saki monkeys, Pithecia monachus.

Ph.D. thesis, Inst. of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus (2000). Field-work in Nepal for pollination ecology project in 1992. Dissertation field-work at the Yasuní Scientific Research Station in Ecuador in 1996-1997 (9 months) and for 5 months in 1998. Work with identification of collected plants in the herbaria Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) and New York (NY) in 1997 (1 month). Collaboration with scientists in Florida in 1999 (1 month). Field-work in Yasuní in 1998 (2 months). Field-work in La Chonta, Guarayos, Bolivia in 2001 (1 month).

• Nabe-Nielsen, J. (2001): Diversity and distribution of lianas in a Neotropical rain forest, Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:1-19. 
• Nabe-Nielsen, J. (in press): Growth and mortality rates of the liana Machaerium cuspidatum in relation to light and topographic position. Biotropica. 

Undergraduate work at University of California, Davis; Ph.D. from Department of Anthropology, University College London.  Ph.D. dissertation on the social relationships among female rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago.

Ph.D. from the Department of Botany, Duke University. Undergraduate work at Princeton University. Currently a research associate at the Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University.  Research interests include large-scale patterns of tree species distribution and abundance in Amazonian forests, taxonomy and systematics of tropical plants, and the destruction of tropical forests.

• Pitman, N.C.A., J. Terborgh, M.R. Silman, P. Núñez V. 1999. Tree species distributions in an upper Amazonian forest. Ecology 80(8): 2651-61.
• Pitman, N.C.A. 2000. A large-scale inventory of two Amazonian tree communities. Ph.D. diss., Duke University.

Currently Professor of Zoology and Biology at the Instituto Agropecuario Superior Andino, ESPE and the executive director of the Fundación Rescate Animal y Parque Hogar Zoológico.  Formerly taught scientific methods at the Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias de la ESPE (IASA).  Ph.D. in Biology (2001: specialty in the Fauna of Ecuador) from the Escuela de Biología, Universidad Central del Ecuador.  Experience includes volunteering  at the Mammals Laboratory at the Escuela Polytecnica National; working as a camp assistant on a RAP expedition to the Reserva Militar Arenillas, and investigating the mammals of banana plantations.

• Pozo R., W. E., 2000. Especies silvestres de uso potencial: El pecarí. Boletín Divulgativo, Escuela Politécnica del Ejército, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, I.A.S.A.
• Pozo R, W. E., 1999. Comportamiento ecológico de los Atelidos del Centro Oriente Ecuatoriano.  Memorias de XXIII Jornadas Ecuatorianas de Biología, Universidad del Azuay.
• Youlatos D. & W. Pozo R., 1999. Preliminary observation on the Songo Songo (Dusky Titi Monkey, Callicebus moloch)  of Northeastern Ecuador. Neotropical Primates 7(2): 45-46.
• Castro, I., M. Guerrero, M. A. Jácome, A. Castellanos y W. E. Pozo. 1999. Manual para el Monitoreo de Aves y Mamíferos del Ecuador. Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito. 
• Pozo R., W. E., 1998. Comunidad de primates vs. fructificación en el Parque Nacional Yasuní .  In Cerón, C. E., M. Moyón y E. D. Jimenez (eds):  Resúmenes Jornadas Ecuatorianas de Biología, SEB, Universidad Central del Ecuador: 101-102.
• Pozo R., W. E., 1998. Contribución al conocimiento socio - Biológico del Titi Pigmeo Ecuatoriano (Cebuella pygmaea, Spix, 1823.).  In Pozo R., W. E. (ed): Rev. IASA. Vol. 1 No. 1: 17-21.

Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Davis.  Research experience includes studies of orangutans, gibbons and other sympatric species in East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).  Currently working with his students in Yasuní as well as planning for the conservation of primates and other fauna in Yasuní  with the collaboration of Friedemann Koester and supported by the Marsh Biodiversity Fund via Conservation International.   Further research includes modelling the relationship of individual foraging success to group size and forest structure, applying digital analysis to the study of vocal communication, determining vocal recognition in primates, sex-biased dispersal in mammals, comparing the diets and morphology of apes, and the evolution of human bipedalism.

• Rodman, P. S. (1999) Whither primatology? The place of primates in contemporary anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology 28: 311-339. 
• Rendall, D., Owren, M. J.; Rodman, P. S.  (1998) The role of vocal tract filtering in identity cueing in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103:602-614. 
• Rodman, P. S. (1994) The human origins program and evolutionary ecology in anthropology today. Evolutionary Anthropology 2: 215-224. 
• Grether, G. F., Palombit, R. A., Rodman, P. S. (1991) Gibbon foraging decisions and the marginal value model.Int. J. Primatology 13: 1-17. 
• Mitani, J. C., Grether, G. F., Rodman, P. S., and Priatna, D. (1991) Associations among wild orangutans:   Sociality, passive aggregations or chance? Anim. Behav. 42:33-46.
• Rodman, P. S. (1991) Coexistence of Macaca fascicularis and M. nemestrina by segregation into structurally differentiated habitats in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Int. J.Primatology 12: 

Dylan Schwindt

Undergraduate work in Biology at New York University. Worked for a year with Diane Dorin at the Mondika Research Center, a study site she established in 1995 in the Ndoki-Sangha National Park of the Central African Republic. Currently conducting research on titi and saki monkeys at Proyecto Primates.

Stephanie Spehar
Department of Anthropology, New York University
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology

Currently a graduate student in primatology in NYU’s Department of Anthropology and has nearly completed her field research on communication and patterns of interaction of spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth).

Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Undergraduate work was completed at the College of William and Mary in Virginia with an undergraduate thesis on captive Ateles geoffroyi.  After college, researched the psychological well-being of captive rhesus macaques at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Veterinary Sciences in Bastrop, Texas (1992-1995). Currently conducting postdoctoral research at the Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, northeastern Thailand with Andres Koenig and Carola Borries.

Currently a lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.  Doctorate from the Lab. d'Anat. Comparee, Mus. Natl. d'Histoire Nat. in Paris, France.

• Youlatos, D. and  Gasc, J. 1994. Critical foraging locomotor patterns: Head-first vertical descent in the red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus).  Zeitschrift Fuer Morphologie und Anthropologie. 80:65-77.
• Youlatos, D. 1999. Comparative locomotion of six sympatric primates in Ecuador.  Annales des Sciences Naturelles-Zoologie et Biologie Animale. 20:161-168. 
• Youlatos, D. 1999. Positional behavior of Cebuella pygmaea in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.  Primates. 40:543-550.