Dr. SANDARA BRASIL
FORMER FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR & PHD STUDENT
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ
FORTALEZA, BRAZIL
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ
FORTALEZA, BRAZIL
Sandara was a Brazilian PhD student who received a Fulbright Scholarship to spend 9 months on the lab. She has a Master's degree in Ecology and Natural Resources and for her PhD she studied how fragmented habitats influence the genetic diversity of carpenter bees.
Dr. Maria del mar leza salord (mar)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, LABORATORY OF ZOOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
MALLORCA, SPAIN
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
MALLORCA, SPAIN
Mar travelled from Mallorca to Riverside to work in the Woodard lab in Spring 2017 to begin a collaborative project on understanding the factors involved in pollinator population decline. During her time in the lab, she led an experiment on the combinatorial effects of neonicotinoid insecticides and diet on bumblebees (Leza et al. 2018). Learn more about Mar and her work by visiting her university website and her ResearchGate page. To read about her work on invasive hornets, visit the website for her citizen science app.