Gerardo M. Rivera Chaparro

Joined: Nov 26, 2022 Last Active: Oct 7, 2024 iNaturalist

BSc Agricultural Sciences in Horticulture – University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

MS Biology student – University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

MBA student – University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

Master's of Agribusiness student – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) of Costa Rica

USDA-NRCS Agronomist at Missouri State Office focusing in statewide agronomic related natural resource conservation concerns and policy, Horticulturalist, Landscape Designer, Plant Collector, Plant Researcher & Political Activist

Interests: Plant conservation of Puerto Rican natives & endemics, plant evolutionary biology, plant physiology, morphology & genetics. Particular interest in the genus Peperomia in Puerto Rico (that was my MS thesis topic) and the Caribbean.

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