Faculty

Leandro Castello
Associate Professor
Research Interests: The ecology and conservation of fish and fisheries with aims to improving societal capacity to solve the problems of tropical fisheries
Email: leandro [at] vt.edu
POSTDOCS

Monalisa Silva
Postdoc
Research topic: Ecology and governance of fisheries in a tributary of the Amazon
Email: silva.monaro [at] gmail.com
George Brooks
Postdoc
Research topic: Integrated population modeling (co-supervised /Kindsvater)
Email: boa10gb [at] vt.edu
Doctoral Students

Mahatub Khan Badhon
PhD student
Research topic: Socio-Ecology of provisioning fisheries in the Great Lakes
Email: badhonmk [@] vt.edu

Priscila Cunha
PhD student
Research topic: Ecology and Co-Management of Arapaima in the Brazilian Amazon
Email: prisrcunha [at] vt.edu

Gabriel Borba
PhD student
Research topic: Climate change effects on Amazon fish catch
Email: gabrielborba [@] vt.edu
Email: gabrielborba [@] vt.edu

Emma Hultin
PhD student
Thesis topic: Integrated population modeling of arapaima fisheries in the Amazon
Email: emmah6 [at] vt.edu
Undergraduate Students

Matthew Louvet
Undergraduate student
Research topic: Provisioning fisheries in the Great Lakes
Email: mlouvetjr [at] vt.edu
Jared Rasmussen
Undergraduate student
Research topic: Vulnerability of floodplain lakes of the Amazon to poaching
Email: jaredras26 [at] vt.edu
Alumni

Luciana Pereira
PhD

Fernanda Silva
Postdoc

Felipe Carvalho
PhD

Carolina Freitas
Postdoc

Ram Thapa
Postdoc

Gretchen Stokes
MSc

Jesse Olsen
MSc

Jordan Richard
MSc

Sasha Doss
MSc

Gwyneth Martin
Undergraduate student

Aaron Betancourt
Undergraduate student

Madeline Wood
Undergraduate student

Clare Posey
Undergraduate student

Haley Jenkins
Undergraduate student

Skylar Wolf
Undergraduate student

Alex Pelletier
Undergraduate student

Erica Ascani
Undergraduate student
