The UMEB Experience

Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology

Funded by the National Science Foundation

UMEB students Donmale Gbaanador and Cristal Watkins visit a village on
the Oueme River in Benin, West Africa, in 2007.

UMEB students Maggie Medrano, Lisa Cervantes, and Liz Carrera conducted
research on fish ecology in the Bladen River, Belize, in 2006.

Carolina Saenz, TAMU-Kingsville

Parque Nacional Corcovado, Costa Rica - 2004

UMEB students on canals of Parque Nacional Tortuguero, Costa Rica- 2004

UMEB group at Tortuguero, 2004 

left to right:  

Dr. Greg Stunz, TAMU-Corpus Christi; Clint Robertson, TAMU-C.S.; 

Steve Zeug, TAMU-C.S.; Paul Gonzalez, TAMU-Corpus Christi; 

Helga, hotel staff; Ramiro Cervantes, TAMU-Corpus Christi; 

Kirk Winemiller, TAMU-C.S.; Carolina Saenz, TAMU-Kingsville

 Upper Orinoco River Expedition, Venezuela - 2005

front to back:

Left: David Hoeinghaus, TAMU-C.S.; Stuart Willis, Univ. Manitoba

Right: Hernan Lopez, TAMU-C.S.; Carmen Montaña, UNELLEZ-Venezuela

Upper Orinoco River Expedition leaves La Esmeralda, Venezuela - 2005

left to right:

John Putegnat, Hernan Lopez, Carmen Montaña, boatman, David Hoeinghaus

The UMEB team that studied food web structure along the longitudinal gradient of the Monkey River, Belize at Monkey River Village.

Left to right

Sonny (guide), Liz Carrera, Rodney Honeycutt (mentor), Donmale Gbaanador, Percy (guide), Gaby Tamez, Kirk Winemiller (mentor), Josiah Payne, Allison Pease (graduate mentor), Kendra (guide), and John Putegnat.

UMEB students arrive by boat

Parque Nacional Corcovado, Costa Rica - 2004

tiger heron, Parque Nacional Tortuguero

John Putegnat, TAMU-C.S.

Upper Orinoco River, Venezuela

coatimundi, Parque Nacional Corcovado

ferry crossing, Orinoco River, Venezuela

Kirk Winemiller, TAMU-C.S.; 

Aniello Barbarino, INIA-Venezuela

and John Putegnat, TAMU-C.S.

army ants, Parque Nacional Corcovado

Brent Winemiller, Parque Nacional Corcovado