Buen día!
My name is Jorge Ramos, and I am a Master of Science student in Dr. Josh Lawler's Landscape and Conservation Ecology laboratory at the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington. Having been raised and educated in México, a country rich in biodiversity and also one of the fastest growing countries in Latin America, I have always been exposed to changes in our natural landscape. I moved back to the United States and started my college education at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2006 from where I received my Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science in 2006. As an undergraduate, I took advantage of many opportunities that gave me the privilege to work in ecosystems all the way from the Chihuahuan desert to the Arctic tundra. I focused my research on the effects of human disturbances in various animal populations. Before starting graduate school, I worked for the Ecological Society of America as their SEEDS Student Coordinator. Living in Washington, DC and working with the SEEDS program, I was inspired to start thinking about science not just inside the laboratory, but how science should be readily available to everyone and how it help the global challenges that we as a society now face.
During graduate school, I plan to learn landscape analysis techniques and species-specific model building. With these tools, I plan to discover if our changing landscape influences the presence of amphibians and the species assemblages in an urban area.