Project Library
Undergraduate Theses
Liv Davison, BA Environmental Studies and Sociology 2023
- Title: The Sustainability of Study Abroad: Impact on Students’ Environmentalism at the Fundación Para La Conservación de los Andes Tropicales Station in the Chocó Rainforest in Ecuador
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/The-sustainability-of-study-abroad.pdf
- Faculty advisors: Amalia Leguizamón, Laura McKinney, Casey Love
Levi Hoskins, BS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
- Title: Regional abundance and diversity of plants in the northwestern Andes Mountains in response to abiotic variables
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Regional-abundance-and-diversity-of-plants-in-the-northwestern-Andes-Mountains-in-response-to-abiotic-variables.pdf
- Faculty advisors: Jordan Karubian, Nicole Katin, Matthew Sumpter
Sloan Livaccari, BS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2022
- Title: Phenology of palm trees in the Chocó Rainforest
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Phenology-of-palm-trees-in-the-Choco-Rainforest.pdf
- Faculty advisors: Jordan Karubian, Sunshine Van Bael, Nicholas Mattei
Autumn Nieves, BA 2020, Political Science and International Relations
- Title: Extraction, dissent & deforestation
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Nieves-Autumn_Extraction-dissent-amp-deforestation.pdf
- Faculty Advisors: Casey Love, Ruth Carlitz, Jordan Karubian
Masters Theses
Liat Perlin, MA Latin American Studies 2022
- Title: Explaining Smallholder Farmer Tropical Deforestation in NW Ecuador
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Explaining-smallholder-farmer-tropical-deforestation-in-Northwest-Ecuador.pdf
- Faculty advisors: Amalia Leguizamón, Jordan Karubian, Claudia Chávez Argüelles
Katherine Perkins, MS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2022
- Title: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis prevalence across different habitats in northwest Ecuador in the direct developing frog Pristimantis achatinus
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Batrachochytrium-dendrobatidis-prevalence-across-different-habitats-in-northwest-Ecuador-in-the-direct-developing-frog-Pristimantis-achatinus.pdf
- Faculty advisor: Jordan Karubian
Katherine Rompf, MS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2022
- Title: Effects of manakin gut passage on germination success of a neotropical melastome
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Effects-of-manakin-gut-passage-on-germination-success-of-a-neotropical-melastome.pdf
- Faculty advisor: Jordan Karubian
Tanner Mazanec, MS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2022
- Title: Herpetofauna richness, community composition and abundance in forested and agricultural habitats of the Mache Chindul Reserve, Northwest Ecuador
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Herpetofauna-richness-community-composition-and-abundance-in-forested-and-agricultural-habitats-of-the-Mache-Chindul-Reserve-Northwest-Ecuador.pdf
- Faculty advisor: Jordan Karubian
Erin Sheehy, MS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2021
- Title: Lek habitat selection by four sympatric manakins in Northwestern Ecuador
- https://tieraprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lek-habitat-selection-by-four-sympatric-manakins-in-Northwestern-Ecuador.pdf
- Faculty advisors: Jordan Karubian, Renata Durães Ribeiro, Amalia Leguizamón
