Lucas B Fortini

Lucas B Fortini, B.S.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    School of Forest Resources and Conservation

    University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

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  • Advisor:

    Daniel J. Zarin

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Tropical forest ecology and management, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
     
    B.S., Resource Management, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    John Battles (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    My research interests are: Tropical forest ecology and management, tidal floodplain forests, secondary forests, population and community ecology and modeling, applied ecology

    After centuries of logging in the Amazon Estuary, the persistence of floodplain forests indicates a potential for sustainable timber management. My Phd research project evaluates the viability of sustainable timber use in the Amazon floodplain though an interdisciplinary study that integrates watershed land-use and land-cover, species ecology and the economics of timber use. The resulting watershed model will allow me to consider the interaction of these complex factors in the evaluation of current and future scenarios of timber extraction while providing insights into the main limitations to sustainable timber use in the Amazon estuary.

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  • Honors:

    2007 Awarded EPA STAR Fellowship

    2007 Awarded NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

    2005 Awarded NSF- SEAGEP Fellowship

    2004 Awarded NSF-IGERT Working Forests in the Tropics Fellowship

    2004 Awarded Honorable Mention in NSF graduate fellowship competition

    2004 Recipient of the Tropical Conservation and Development summer research grant

    2003 Awarded the Tropical Conservation and Development graduate fellowship

    2001 Recipient of the Knorr Prize, awarded for graduating student with the highest GPA in resource management major

    2001 College of Natural Resources departmental citation for best student in the Major

    2001 Graduate of Berkeley with highest honors (based on GPA) and college honors (for completion of honor thesis work and high academic achievement)

    2000 Awarded the Horace Albright undergraduate scholarship for students of natural resources

    2000 Recipient of UC Berkeley’s undergraduate research fellowship

    1999 Awarded the UC Berkeley’s Alumni Association scholarship

    1999 Awarded the Garden Club scholarship for environmental majors

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