Jessica L. Deichmann is a Research Biologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Her work largely focuses on problem solving via interdisciplinary biodiversity conservation and sustainability research. Dr. Deichmann identifies key environmental and climate challenges created by infrastructure development and industrial operations in high biodiversity ecosystems, primarily in the Americas and Africa. Using a… Read More

María José Andrade Núñez is an applied ecologist with extensive experience in the research area of Earth systems science, working with social-ecological systems in Latin America. She has more than 10 years’ experience using geographic information systems and performing spatial analyses to conduct multi-scale research to better understand human impact on ecosystems, communities, species, and landscapes. Dr. Andrade-Núñez earned a master of… Read More

Alfonso Alonso is Managing Director of International Field Programs of the Center for Conservation and Sustainability at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Working as a conservation biologist for 25 years with the Smithsonian, he has focused on integrating conservation needs with development priorities to maintain biodiversity. Dr. Alonso develops biodiversity assessment and monitoring programs to minimize impacts… Read More

Francisco Dallmeier is Director of the Center for Conservation and Sustainability at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He has a wide range of global experience with the energy, infrastructure, mining, conservation, and development sectors. Dr. Dallmeier has worked on functional conservation corridors for working landscapes, sustainable investment and conservation tools, sustainable infrastructure conservation… Read More

Tremaine Gregory has been a research scientist and postdoc for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute for the past 12 years. Her research focuses on the impacts of infrastructure on biodiversity, particularly in the Amazon. Dr. Gregory has extensive experience studying mammals, birds, and other taxonomic groups impacted by industrial infrastructure in Peru, Brazil, and Paraguay, and has pioneered methods for camera… Read More

Reynaldo Linares-Palomino is a Tropical Biologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He leads the Peruvian Andes Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program (BMAP) in 14 ecological landscapes under the influence of a trans-Andean gas pipeline and contributes to other conservation and development programs in critical habitats in the Andes, the Amazon, and the Alto Paraná Atlantic forests in Paraguay. Dr.… Read More

Karim Ledesma is Program Coordinator of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program (BMAP). She coordinates field surveys of the terrestrial and marine research protocols implemented along the PERU LNG gas pipeline in the Andes Mountains and desert ecosystems as well as the marine terminal of a liquified natural gas plant in Peru. Ms. Ledesma is the lead field logistics… Read More

Ximena Velez-Zuazo is the Managing Director of the Peru programs at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation and Sustainability. She has more than 20 years’ experience with conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Velez-Zuazo collaborates with scientists and stakeholders to implement long-term monitoring programs to assess the influence and mitigate the impact of marine… Read More

Anna Feistner is a Conservation Biologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation and Sustainability. She directs the Center’s Gabon Biodiversity Program and has been based in Gabon for five years. Dr. Feistner has extensive experience working in biodiversity-rich yet economically poor countries and with stakeholders in governments, NGOs, local communities, and the private sector. She has… Read More