Project Directors
Director. The Erlich of this data incubator. Responsible for picking the right people to do the actual work.
Director. The Jared of the project. Keeps things working from behind the scenes. Also responsible for running the EIA hormone lab at Taboga.
Director, field coordinator, communication maven. Responsible for running things on the ground, coordinating lab and field studies of capuchin cognition, and translating government documents into English (her favorite pastime).
Field Assistants
Alexander Fuentes
Long-term field assistant with roots in Monteverde, but his heart lies in Bagaces. When we say boots on the ground, it is Alex’s boots we are talking about. First project member to see capuchins at Taboga (Marcela claims it was a tie). Responsible for finding, habituating, and learning monkeys. Also clearing trails.
Juan Carlos Ordoñez
Long-term field assistant and phenology expert. Responsible for finding, habituating, and identifying monkeys. Hobbies include birding and cooking with loud rock music.
Elena Ramírez Herra
Mario Chaves
Fernando Pinto, operations manager
Undergraduate Researchers
Justin D. Kim
A junior undergraduate student majoring in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience. He works as a research assistant performing elutions and hormonal assays for various projects advised by Jacinta Beehner. In his free time, Justin enjoys being active as a stress reliever whether that be fitness, dance, or going for runs.
Project Alumni
Sophia Prisco
Field assistant who started her life at Taboga the same day as Tiny, one of the newest babies of the Tenori group. She works on collecting data, vocalizations, habituating monkeys and fighting ant infestations.
Evan Farese
Field assistant who, along with Sophia and Ren, works on collecting data, vocalizations, and habituating monkeys. In his time here, he has grown very fond of taking the car to the mechanic in Cañas.
Ren Rees
The newest field assistant to join the project, also helping to collect data, vocalizations and monkey poop. From the UK, she enjoys teaching the others weird British words and foods.
Celia McLean
Former field manager from Portland, Oregon. She was responsible for data collection and management, collecting vocalizations, and writing website posts once in a blue moon. Off to grad school at Cornell!
Ariek Norford
Former field assistant from Pennsylvania. Their job was collecting and cleaning data (and everything else, really). Obsessed with anything to do with monkeys, recounting all their drama, and befriending all the underdog monkeys. They started graduate school at Stony Brook University in 2019.
Jahmaira Archbold
Jahmaira is a former field assistant who hails from Arogno, Switzerland. She spent 8 months at Taboga, primarily in charge of data organization and recording capuchin vocalizations. Jahmaira has a masters in behavioral ecology and spent 6 months in the Congo studying bonobo vocalizations.
Courtney Anderson
Courtney was the project’s first field manager, and is now in graduate school at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
