Tiffany G. Troxler
Research Associate
troxlert@fiu.edu

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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tiffany grew up in Bradenton, Florida. She has received two undergraduate and two graduate degrees: a B.A. in anthropology from Tulane University in 1993, a B.S. in environmental studies from Florida International University (FIU) in 1997, a M.S in biology from FIU in 2001 and a Ph.D. in biology from FIU in 2005. Her dissertation work is entitled “Investigating ecosystem responses to hydrologic change and mechanisms for nitrogen sequestration in seasonally flooded tree islands of the southern Everglades.” While at FIU, Tiffany participated in the national Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network as both the co-chair of the Graduate Student Committee and as the co-chair of the Graduate Student Collaborative Research Symposium Committee. While a graduate student, she also served on the board of directors of the Coastal Plain Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration International.

Tiffany’s research interests include: coastal and wetland ecology; biogeochemistry; landscape biogeochemical processes; pattern and process controlling plant community structure; plant-soil interactions; conservation, management and restoration of coastal landscapes. She has given numerous lecture and poster presentations in the United States, Canada and Europe and has recently published two peer-reviewed papers based on her thesis and dissertation work and has collaborated as co-author on two other papers with her colleagues.

In 2004, Tiffany began cross-site work in wetland ecosystems in Panamá funded in part by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). As a collaborator with IRC, she has returned to Panama several times and developed additional projects in Bolivia and the Yucatan, Mexico. She joined IRC as a research associate upon successful completion of her Ph.D. dissertation in the fall of 2005.