Pablo obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) in 2012. During his years as an undergraduate, he worked on a project related to the feeding ethology of a dwarf bird species, and insect collection in the Puerto Rican forests. He also worked in fish parasitology, where he acquired his microscopy skills.
In the fall of 2012, Pablo started his Master’s degree in Conservation Technology at Florida Institute of Technology. He came to work at the Paleoecology laboratory as a Research Associate in 2013. He is now the Senior Research Associate at the Center for Applied Biogeography within the Department of Biological Sciences. He also recently completed his Master’s degree in December of 2014.Latter, in 2016 he completed a GIS Certificate with Penn State university.
His work and research interests are dedicated to palynology, including field sampling (soil and pollen), modern pollen micro-processing, mounting, and imaging. Currently, Pablo is working on processing soil samples from Central America. His work also focuses on pollen morphology and pollen database development. He also enjoys training future researchers in the field of pollen morphology.
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