Manuel Flores is a senior in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. He traveled to Costa Rica to study the physiological differences of shade tolerant plants across varying elevation gradients. Manuel will continue developing his thesis with the LAUNCH Undergraduate Research Program. Manuel Flores Poster
Sarah Brinkley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Horticultural Sciences. She traveled to Honduras to study how soil health impacts coffee quality and how it may improve agricultural management practices. Sarah Brinkley Poster
Simon Kiacz is a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He traveled to the Madre de Dios region of Southeastern Peru where he expanded his previous research on South Texas redcrowned parrots to the family group ecology of clay lick parrots in the genus Amazona.