Luisa is a forest engineer who has worked for the National forest Inventory of Colombia, the Colombian National University, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She has ample fieldwork experience in the Andes, Amazon, and Central American forests, on both scientific and logistic/coordination roles. Knowledge in R, Python, diverse GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS, GRASS), drone photogrammetry, and terrestrial and mobile laser scanning (TLS and MLS). Experience conducting diversity and composition studies and defining project baselines in compliance with environmental Colombian regulations. BEng in Forest Engineering (2019), MSc in Forests and Environmental Conservation (2023).

Cecilia spends ~6 months per year walking in the forest measuring trees, taking leaf, root, and wood samples, and thinking about life.  She has much experience with seedlings, including transplantation experiments, and soil sampling and analyses. Before her PhD she worked in projects for a number of foundations and institutions in Colombia, including Ecometrópoli, Guayacanal Station,  E-qual Environmental Consulting,  and G2-Seismic. During her PhD she worked in Panama and the US as part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.  BSc in Biology (2009), MSc in Biology (2012), PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2021). 

Professional with more than 20 years of experience in the field of conservation, sustainable tourism, and rural community development in Latin America. He has worked with international cooperation, in the private sector, and as a public servant from municipal roles to Vice Minister of Tourism in Bolivia. He knows Bolivian roads, trails, and people, as the back of his hand. Since 2005 he teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels on ecotourism, land use planning, and sustainability in Bolivia and as a visiting professor in the US. Currently, he works as an independent consultant and organizing specialized expeditions to any location in Bolivia. Oikobit and Marcelo’s Huellas Foundation have worked together on the ecotourism proposal “Elbow of the Andes,” a botanical journey through Bolivia’s varied landscapes. 

Raquel has organized and participated of multiple expeditions to remote areas in the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado), Brazilian and Colombian Amazon, and Panamanian forests. She studies landscape dynamics combining her knowledge of forest ecology with GIS and remote sensing tools, including drone piloting and image processing. She has organized and taught more than 14 field courses covering the topics of forest inventory and geotechnology. She has worked in projects for the INCT-Madeiras da Amazônia (Brazil), Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments -Tropics (US) and Forest Global Earth Observatory (US and Panama). BSc in Forest Engineering (2010), MSc in in Tropical Forest Sciences (2013), PhD in Tropical Forest Sciences (2019). 

Caique has worked in the field and analyzing data from Amazonian forests since 2009. He works with remote sensing, GIS, LiDAR data, photogrammetry, and analyzing spectral and spatial image data. He has worked in the estimation of carbon stock and model error propagation for the Brazilian National Forest Inventories and REDD+ projects. He has predoctoral and postdoctoral experience with the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, the University of Brasilia, the University of California Berkeley, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. BSc in Forest Engineering (2007), MSc in Tropical Forest Science (2011), PhD in Tropical Forest Science (2017), R and Python programmer.