Venni Keskiniva defended her PhDOn June 7th, 2024, Dr. Keskiniva defended her doctoral thesis dealing with the taxonomy and systematics of the neotropical fern…
Remote sensing of forest understory – Eduardo Maeda´s visitOn March, 19th, we received the visit of Eduardo Maeda, that gave a lecture tilted “Assessing forests below canopy complexity…
Lassi Suominen defends his PhD thesis about indicator speciesLassi is the freshest PhD holder member of the team! Dr. Suominen defended his thesis titled “Environmental variation, niches of…
Pilot Futures WorkshopAmazon team member and PhD researcher Marianna Ferreira-Aulu of the Finland Futures Research Center led a pilot workshop at the…
A new member in the team: Welcome Rajit!A new postdoc researcher just joined the group. Rajit Gupta arrived from India to work in the project “Evolution of…
Field work in Rio NegroIn November and December 2022, some Amazon Team members went to Manaus, Brazil, for a series of activities including plant…
Welcome new Amazon Team member Chi-Chuan !The Amazon team has a new member. PhD Chi-Chuan Chen joined the team in October 2022! Chi-Chuan has defended her…
Wanted: Another postdoc researcher (2 years; focus on remote sensing and habitat mapping)The project “Evolution of landscapes, rivers and biota in Amazonia” seeks a postdoc researcher for a fixed term employment of…
Wanted: Postdoc researcher (1 year; focus on ferns — your choice of ecology, systematics or biogeography)The project “How did Amazonia become so species rich? Answers from ferns” seeks a post doctoral researcher for one year…
Six new Neotropical fern species were described!PhD. candidate Janina Keskiniva and her advisor Hanna Tuomisto have just published the describion of six new fern species from…