Last Name: Ahumada     First Name: Jorge

Title: Technical Director

TEAM Role: Technical Director, Technical Liaison

Institution: Conservation International

Address: 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500

City: Arlington     State:      Postal Code: 22202

Country: United States

Primary Email:      Secondary Email:

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

Website:

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 Protocols: Climate, Terrestrial Vertebrate, Vegetation - Trees & Lianas

TEAM Site: Not Applicable

Language(s): English, Portuguese, Spanish