Center for Tropical Research

Leadership

Elsa Ordway

Co-Director, Center for Tropical Research; Co-Director, Congo Basin Institute

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Felipe Zapata

Co-director, Center for Tropical Research

Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Founder

Thomas Smith

Founder and Co-Director, Center for Tropical Research; Founding Co-Director, Congo Basin Institute

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Senior Staff

Ryan Harrigan

Associate Adjunct Professor, IoES; Associate Researcher, CTR

Staff

Steering Committee

Thomas Gillespie

Co-Chair, Environmental Science and Engineering (D.Env.) Program; Professor

Department of Geography

Peter Narins

Professor

David Geffen School of Medicine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Integrative Biology & Physiology