Director of Research, Yanayacu Biological Station
Roles: Innovation, insect inventory, bird inventory
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese (reading)
Dr. Greeney is a broadly trained organismal biologist with almost 30 years of experience studying biotic communities across the Neotropics, particularly in the Andes and upper Amazon. He has lived in several remote field stations in Ecuador, including the Yanayacu Research Station, which he founded and operated for almost 20 years, disseminating his research through more than 340 publications. He is proficient in a wide range of biological field techniques and sampling protocols, including rapid biotic inventories, and he has been an invited speaker and lecturer in Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. In 2015, his contributions to tropical ecology were recognized through the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Education
- Ph.D., Vertebrate Zoology, University Wroclaw, 2008
- M.S., Entomology, University of Arizona, 1999
- B.S., Biology, Wake Forest University, 1993