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About Carlos Martinez
In 2017, Carlos Martinez led the first long-term acoustic monitoring study of Puerto Rico’s endangered coquí frogs after Hurricane Maria, deploying custom-built, solar-powered sensor arrays across 12 ravines to track recovery in real time. His team discovered that microhabitat moisture retention, not just canopy cover, predicted recolonization success, a finding now embedded in FEMA’s post-disaster amphibian restoration guidelines. Unlike many herpetologists who prioritize taxonomy, Carlos treats species as ecological keystones: he’s documented how the decline of the Texas horned lizard correlates with localized ant community collapse, prompting land managers to revise pesticide protocols on three military bases. He speaks fluent Spanish and Taíno-derived ecological terms from Puerto Rican field elders, integrating oral knowledge into GIS habitat models. His lab publishes all raw audio, thermal imaging, and soil-moisture datasets openly, and trains high school students in southern Texas to build low-cost microclimate loggers using repurposed smartphone sensors.
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- “How did your coquí acoustic study change post-hurricane recovery protocols?”
- “What ant species are critical for Texas horned lizard survival?”
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- “How do Taíno ecological terms improve modern habitat modeling?”