Nora Oleas
Florida International University
University Park Campus
Biology Department
11200 SW 8th St.
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-4062
Fax: (305) 348 1986
E-mail: nolea002@fiu.edu
 
Education
 
M.Sc. Florida International University, Biology, 2004
B.Sc.  Catholic University, Ecuador, Biology, 2000
 
Research and Field Work Experience
 
8/02-present  Full-time graduate student and teacher assistant. Biology Department at Florida International University.
9/00-8/02   Consultant (Botany). Andean Bear Conservation Project.  EcoCiencia NGO.  Duties included development of methods to classify forest types in Sangay National Park and Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve, taxonomy identification, botanical collections, data analysis and report writing.
02/98-05/99  Undergraduate thesis student.  Rare Plant Conservation Project in Ecuadorian National Parks.  QCA Herbarium, PUCE, INEFAN/GEF Project.  Phaedranassa (Amaryllidaceae) study.
10/95- 8/02   Field assistant on environmental impact studies of mining operations in Ecuador (El Pangui, Zamora-Chinchipe; Chical, Sucumbios province; Tena, Napo province; Malal, Cañar province; La Bonita, Sucumbios province; Celica, Loja province; Chinapinza, Zamora-Chinchipe province). Duties included bibliographic information research, surveys with local inhabitants, botanical collection and taxonomy identification.
 
Publications
 
Peer review articles
 
Oleas, N., Iturralde, J.  A.  2002.  Caracterización vegetal de la cuenca baja del Río Oyacachi, provincial del Napo, Ecuador.  Pp.  104-117 en: Freire-Fierro, A & D.A.  Nelly (eds.) 2002.  La Botánica del Nuevo Milenio, Memorias del III Congreso Ecuatoriano de Botánica.  Publicaciones de la Fundación Ecuatoriana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo de la Botánica FUNBOTANICA 4.  Quito 260pp.
Iturralde, J.A., Oleas, N.  2002.  Caracterización vegetal de algunos bosques montanos en la cuenca del Río Upano, Parque Nacional Sangay.  Pp.  118-140 en: Freire-Fierro, A & D.A.  Nelly (eds.) 2002.  La Botánica del Nuevo Milenio, Memorias del III Congreso Ecuatoriano de Botánica.  Publicaciones de la Fundación Ecuatoriana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo de la Botánica FUNBOTANICA 4.  Quito 260pp.
Oleas, N., Meerow, A., Francisco-Ortega, J. 2005. Isolation and characterization of eight microsatellite loci from Phaedranassa tunguraguae (Amaryllidaceae). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 791-793.
 
Books chapter, Theses and Symposium abstracts
 
Oleas, N.  2000.  Amaryllidaceae.  Pp.  66-67,  In Valencia, R., N. Pitman, S. León-Yánez, & P.M. Jørgensen (eds.).  Red Data Book of the Ecuadorian endemic plants.  Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Oleas, N.  2000.  Abundance, distribution and conservation status of four Phaedranassa species (Amaryllidaceae), endemics of the Ecuadorian Andes. Undergraduate thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Oleas, N.  2003.  Toward the conservation of Phaedranassa, a rare genus in Ecuador.  Fifth Annual Biology Research Symposium.  Fairchild Tropical Garden, FIU Department of Biological Science.
Oleas, N.  2003.  Toward the conservation of Phaedranassa, a rare genus in Ecuador. II Congress of the Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon basin, IV Ecuadorian Botanical Congress. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja-Ecuador.
Oleas, N.  2004.  Genetic structure of Phaedranassa tunguraguae Ravenna Amaryllidaceae, an endangered species of Ecuador. M.S. thesis Florida International University, Miami, Fl.
Oleas, N., Meerow, A., Francisco-Ortega, J., Kuhn, D. 2004.  Developing microsatellite markers for studying the genetic structure of Phaedranassa schizantha and P. tunguraguae (Amaryllidaceae). Botany 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Oleas, N., Meerow, A., Francisco-Ortega, J., Kuhn, D. 2005. Genetic structure of Phaedranassa tunguraguae (Amaryllidaceae), an endangered species from Ecuador. Seventh Annual Biology Research Symposium. Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, Miami, Florida.
Oleas, N., Meerow, A., Francisco-Ortega, J., Kuhn, D. 2005.  Genetic structure of Phaedranassa tunguraguae Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae), an endangered species of Ecuador. Botany 2005, Austin, Texas.
Oleas, N. 2006. Population genetic structure and migration pattern of Phaedranassa tunguraguae Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae), an endangered species of Ecuador. 2006 Scholarly Forum, Graduate Student Association, Florida International University, Miami.
 
 
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
 
Fulbright Scholarship.  For graduate studies at Florida International University, 2002- 2004.
Barsa Scholarship.  For graduate studies at Florida International University, 2002-2004.
Best Master student presentation. Seventh Annual Biology Research Symposium. Biology Research Symposium, 29th January 2005, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden.
Third prize Biology and Earth Science section. Scholarly Forum, GSA, FIU, March 8th 2006, Miami.
 
Languages
 
Spanish, English, Portuguese