Meet Juan Luis Orengo
Today is a great day as I have been provided a space by the Puerto Rico Science Trust and Colmena 66 to work for a few hours and launch our campaign. I also heard that I have running water again and I'll be heading out soon to fill some containers before the service is cut out! But before I do, I wanted to introduce one of the best students I have had the pleasure of working with: Juan Luis Orengo. Juan will be joining us in the field and your donations will help this talented young man get back to the field.
Juan Luis, is currently an undergraduate student in the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras majoring in Environmental Sciences. Some of his academic achievements include being a general biology tutor for the course of a year and being selected to attend an undergraduate research experience (REU) internship at Mountain Lake Biological Station in Virginia where he worked with salamander populations and green infrastructure composition in parts of the Appalachian forest during the summer of 2017. He is now working on his undergraduate thesis which seeks to understand ecosystem services provided by residential green infrastructure on two neighborhoods located in the Río Piedras River Watershed: Puerto Nuevo and University Gardens.
Juan is in Ponce, but I was able to reach him by phone and he is very exited about this opportunity and to get back to work! Please donate to keep this going!!
Tomorrow we have a meeting with our PI Dr. Ellvia Mélendez-Ackerman and we will work on a Lab Note describing our methodology. I am excited to get feedback from our crowdfunding community! Until tomorrow.
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