Cooper Rosin grew up loving the sciences. His first exposure to the wonder of tropical forests was during a semester abroad in Ecuador, where he studied ecology and conservation. After several more years in research, teaching, living and working in the New World tropics he enrolled in the Masters of Environmental Management at Duke University, where he is currently working towards a PhD in Ecosystem Science and Management. He hopes to continue pursuing conservation-oriented research in order to understand the human impacts on biodiversity and ecological integrity in tropical forests.