Anna Sugiyama
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Anna received a BA in Forestry from the University of Tokyo where her senior thesis project was on cryopreservation of recalcitrant seeds that cannot be stored for a long time. She received a PhD in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia where her dissertation research focused on effects of forest fragmentation on regeneration of animal-dispersed tree species in Costa Rica. After graduating, she held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Japan, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her postdoctoral research has been based in Panama where she has been studying spatiotemporal dynamics of tree species in the 50 ha plot on Barro Colorado Island. In 2016, she started her position as a NatureNet Science Fellow at Yale University and the Nature Conservancy, where she will be assessing a system to effectively manage secondary forest succession to increase long-term carbon storage in tropical forests.