Visiting Scholars
Karla Nascimento Sena
Karla is a PhD Student from Sao Paula State University in Brazil. Her research study consists of recording the impact of harvest residue management systems on soil structure and microbial communities under eucalyptus plantations.
Here she will work within UTRGV's Soil Ecology lab on personal and local research.
Click here to see her most recent publication with UNESP!
Thaís Soto Boni
Thaís is a PhD student from Brazil who is working to restore degraded soils in the Cerrado Biome, located in the heart of Brazil. Her goal is to bring life back to these areas. Restoring degraded soil is especially important, because without any vegetation in place, nutritious topsoil is more suseptible to displacement which only worsens the soil quality. An increase in barren landscapes reduces plant and animal biodiversity, something we can hope to prevent all over the world.