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

Kevin Njabo

Africa Director and Associate Adjunct Professor

Center for Tropical Research

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