Alex Sloan

 

Dr. Steven A. Sloan is a tenured full professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamon, where he teaches biology, botany, ecology and undergraduate research. He is a biology graduate of Memphis State University (B.S.), earned a Botany degree (M.S.) from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and PhD in Tropical Biology from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. Before and after his bachelor’s degree, he participated in three different sea turtle conservation projects in St. Croix, USVI, Little Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA, and Rancho Nuevo, Mexico. He has taught and coordinated various international classroom courses, field courses and research experiences for a range of academic levels: He was a lecturer of “O” and “A” -level biology at Founders High School in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He served as a counselor for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the El Verde Field Station, located in the Luquillo Experimental Forest at Puerto Rico, he coordinated the NSF Research Experience for Teachers program at the La Selva Field Station, Costa Rica, he also coordinated the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) undergraduate Field course in Tropical Biology at three locations La Selva, Las Cruces, and Palo Verde, Costa Rica, and served as mentor of the OTS Native American and Pacific Islander Research Experience at Las Cruces Field Station, Costa Rica. His research interests include demographic studies of plants that are habitat specialists in high light conditions, and insects that interact as pollinators, herbivores, vectors of disease, and/or prey. He has also conducted research on seed dispersal by old-world primates, introduced to Puerto Rico and he is currently researching a rare carnivorous plant to better understand how they avoid feeding on their pollinators.

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Alex will be on Saba October 18-25-.

Presentation: October 21

Field Project: October 22