Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Arisa Lohmeier '14 is an Environmental Science concentrator interested in botany and reconciling development and conservation goals. Together with Professor Erika Edwards (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Voss postdoctoral associate Radika Bhaskar, and Francisco Mora (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Arisa plans to investigate tropical dry forest regeneration in abandoned pastureland in Jalisco, Mexico. Arisa’s ultimate goal is to understand how management can facilitate forest regeneration, and in turn contribute to sustainable land use practices. Arisa is from Rhode Island, and was the sustainability coordinator for A Better World by Design 2012. She also was a coordinator for the Brown Market Shares Program.