Assistant Professor Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela co-authored the paper, “Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity,” with Assistant Professor Scott Winton and postdoc Neate-Clegg from the Conservation Ecology Lab in People and Nature, identifying the drivers of birdwatching tourism globally. This research was also covered in Audubon Magazine.
Ocampo-Peñuela also co-published “Functional Diversity Of Avian Mixed-Species Foraging Flocks On The Tilarán Cordillera, Costa Rica” in Neotropical Ornithology, describing mixed species flocks of birds along elevational gradients in Costa Rica. This research and resulting publication were supported by environmental studies undergraduate Sam Eberhard as part of their undergraduate thesis.
Additionally, her Ph.D. student, Julián Llano, was awarded a prestigious Fonseca Leadership Fellowship from WWF for his Ph.D. work documenting and elevating the role of Indigenous and AfroColombian communities in bird conservation in Colombia.