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Congratulations to our lab mate, Juan Sebastián Lozano, on his doctoral dissertation defense! 🎓 Last week, JuanSe defended his research, “Flood Pulse Hydrology and Amazonian Fisheries across Scales: Remote Measurement and Social-Ecolog
This August, our lab mate Tania Romero Bautista participated in the 2026 International Graduate School (IGS) North-South Summer School, titled “Healthy Forests for People: Towards Systemic Transformation in an Amazonian Landscape,” held i
Last week, Sofia and Elizabeth traveled to Iquitos, Peru, continuing #TropicalRiversLab work connecting freshwater science with meaningful socio-ecological conservation. 🌎🐟 Their time in the Amazon focused on working alongside local fishers and com
Florida’s freshwater springs are special places because they provide crystal-clear, naturally flowing water that supports unique ecosystems and wildlife while connecting people to the landscape. We’re studying Florida’s freshwater s
This past Friday and Saturday we had the privilege of hosting Dr. Joshua Benjamin in FIU! He shared his research on the Mara River in Kenya and Tanzania, exploring how land-use change and water quality influence freshwater biodiversity, food webs, an
A new report, Amazon Forgotten Fishes by The Nature Conservancy has just been released! The report highlights the Amazon’s remarkable 2,700+ freshwater fish species and the essential roles they play in supporting healthy rivers and forests, fo
A special feature for our PI, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson! Dr. Anderson was recently featured in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s “Beyond the Lab” series, highlighting her journey as a freshwater conservation ecologist and the wo
We’re back! After a little time away, the Tropical Rivers Lab Instagram is active again and ready for a fresh start! Here are some of the faces behind FIU’s Tropical Rivers Lab. We’re excited to share more of our research, fieldwork
New publication alert! Rivers of the Western Amazon have an outsized yet underrecognized importance at an Amazon Basin scale, strongly influencing hydrology, sediment dynamics, freshwater fish diversity, and human populations. Read why in our paper i