Member since: November 27, 2007

Username: jahumada

Title: Technical Director

TEAM Role: Coordinating Unit, Technical Liaison    Coordinating Unit Role: Technical Director

Institution: Conservation International

Mailing Address: 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, 22202, United States

Email:     

Work Phone: (703) 341-2543    Mobile Phone: 202-716-3374    

Skype or IM: ateles39 (skype)

Area of expertise and Interest

Research Core Areas: Diversity Indices, Modeling/Synthesis
Research Discipline: Animal behavior, Animal ecology, Animal population biology, Biological Diversity, Community ecology, Conservation biology, Ecological complexity, Ecological modeling, Epidemiology, Forest Ecology, Plant Population Ecology, Statistical Ecology, Statistics, Theoretical Population Biology, Zoology
Research Region: Global
Research Organism: Animals in general, Terrestrial Vertebrates

Bio: Jorge A. Ahumada is the Technical Director for TEAM since 2006. Jorge got his degree in Biology at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. He spent 3-4 years doing field research on neotropical primates in Colombia and Panama. A few years later, Jorge obtained his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University where he worked with Andy Dobson and Henry Horn on the reproductive strategies of neotropical wrens in variable environments. He then returned to Colombia to take a position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. During his tenure there, he created the Laboratory of Population Ecology and worked on the reproductive ecology of cloud forest birds and the effects of forest fragmentation on these communities. In 1997, he became Chair of the Department of Biology and held his position for two years. Jorge returned to the US to expand his academic opportunities working with Steve Hubbell on models of tropical forest dynamics. He then was hired by the University of Hawaii to model the dynamics of bird diseases in Hawaii as part of a Biocomplexity project looking at the impact of malaria and pox on Hawaiian native birds. Jorge is broadly interested in applying mathematical models to solve applied conservation problems. He has worked on the impacts of climate change on disease and biodiversity, incorporating the effects of temperature and rainfall on models of disease-transmitting vectors and more recently on the use of camera traps for monitoring vertebrates. He likes the outdoors, cooking, savoring good wine and is a fanatical salsa dancer.

TEAM Site: Barro Colorado Nature Monument - Soberania National Park, Bukit Barisan, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Caxiuanã, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Cocha Cashu - Manu National Park, Korup National Park, Manaus, Mudumalai Game Reserve, Nam Kading, Nouabalé Ndoki, Pasoh Forest Reserve, Ranomafana, Rio Doce, Udzungwa, Volcán Barva, Yanachaga Chimillén National Park, Yasuni

Language(s): English, Portuguese, Spanish