STRI Staff Scientist
Director, Bocas del Toro Research Station
As well as conducting research on marine invertebrate reproduction and development, Rachel Collin has been the director of the Bocas del Toro Research Station since 2002.
E-mail: Collinr@si.edu
Links: Blog, ResearchGate, GoogleScholar
Tania Romero
Laboratory Manager
Tania started in the Collin Lab in 2019.
E-mail: RomeroTE@si.edu
Research Assistant
While working on his thesis on cycads and preparing for graduate school, Maycol Madrid manages the logistics of the Bocas-ARTS program.
E-mail: MadridM@si.edu
Links: ResearchGate
2018
Combined effects of temperature, salinity and diet on the life history of Crepdiula cf. marginalis.
Master’s student at Technische Universität München, Germany
2018-2019
Seasonal differences in abundance and diversity of planktonic gastropods in the Bay of Panama.
Masters student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2017
Latitudinal patterns in invertebrate settlement and recruitment.
PhD student at the University of Quebec, Canada
Discovering and documenting the diversity of tropical marine invertebrate larvae.
E-mail: dagovenera@gmail.com
Links: ResearchGate
The role of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in marine ectotherm’s long-term persistence to increasingly warm and hypoxic coastal habitats
E-mail: noelle.lucey@gmail.com
Links: GoogleScholar, ResearchGate
Arriving at STRI in 2020
2019
Northeastern Univ. Co-op student.
Project Title: How does environmental stability impact the life history of Crepidula cf. marginalis?
2019-2020
International Maritime University
Thesis Title: Variaciones en la diversidad y abundancia de gasterópodos holoplanctónicos (Gastropoda: Pteropoda y Littorinimorpha) en relación a los parámetros fisicoquímicos durante las estaciones seca y lluviosa en el Golfo de Panamá
2018-2019
University of Panama
Thesis Title: Estructura y diversidad de la comunidad bentónica en Bahía Almirante, Bocas del Toro, Panamá
2016-2017
Fulbright Fellow
Currently: PhD student MIT-WHOI.
Project Title: How does hypoxia effect invertebrate larval abundance in a tropical bay?
2018
Northeastern University Co-op
Project Title: How do temperature changes impact egg size of a marine snail?
2017
Gap-year student
Project Title: How do they spend their days? Time budgets for the intertidal snail Nerita scabricosta.