Genesis first joined the lab to participate in the NASA AVUELO campaign. She subsequently measured spectral data from seedling leaves of tropical plant species within a rainfall gradient in the center of Panama, in collaboration with the Yale Planetary Solutions Project for Tropical Plant Species Automatized Identification, and is writing her undergraduate thesis on this work.  She is interested in pursuing a masters that allows her to keep working in the ecology field, to create tools, and to research for better management strategies of tropical forests.