Paul Gulezian

University of Illinois at Chicago

Pristine, uninvaded woods in southern Patagonia.  The closest I have seen to Lothlorien on Earth.

I am a Ph.D. student in the Ecology and Evolution group at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  My advisor is Dennis Nyberg, whose research foci are natural areas revitalization and conservation.  I am a fellow in the first cohort of students in UIC’s IGERT grant in Landscape, Ecological, and Anthropogenic Processes (LEAP).  My research interests are broad, but my thesis research concerns invasive plant species in the context of human activities in the urban landscape.  I hope to integrate research on invasive plants from several scales to create a more complete picture of how biological invasions function in an ecological context.  For invasives in the global context see: The Global Invasive Species Database., for the regional context visit: The Midwest Invasive Plant Network.

Contact:

pgulez2@uic.edu

3474 SES M/C 066

845 West Taylor Street

Chicago, IL 60607

(708) 856-2644

Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum) lining the road to Perito Moreno National Park in Patagonia, southern Argentina.

Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) a native spring ephemeral at risk from invasive species.

Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) a native woodland species.