Student Information
Graduate Student
Environmental Life Sciences
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Graduate Student
Environmental Life Sciences
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Edauri Navarro Pérez is a soil ecologist and Ph.D. student in the Environmental Life Sciences program at Arizona State University (ASU). Currently, her research is about how grass root functional traits: 1) are affected by different abiotic conditions and species, 2) the relationship of root traits and mycorrhizal colonization and 3) how root traits affect drylands soil properties. She is part of Heather Throop's lab.
mostly interested on biogeochemistry of soils with human impacts. In the past, she has worked with tree frogs in Costa Rica, plants and Maya's remnants in Belize, soils and human impacts in Puerto Rico and permafrost in Alaska. Currently, she is starting a PhD in Arizona State University in the Environmental Life Sciences Program.
Education
Undergraduate Bachelors of Environmental Sciences in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Research Interests
Her research interest involve biogeochemistry of soil, climate change and human impacts.
Courses
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2020 Spring
2019 Fall
Honors / Awards
GRFP 2018 Fellow
Fonalleda's Scholarship 2014
Toyota Environmental Scholarship (2013-2017)
Work History
Research assistant at the Center of Applied Tropical, Ecology and Conservation.
Undergraduate researcher at the Woods Hole Research Center (Polaris Project).
Undergraduate researcher at El Verde Long Term Experimental Research Station.
Undergraduate researcher at Organization of Tropical Studies.