Nathan Soley

Nathan Soley is a researcher in the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, USA. There, he is helping to document hundreds of species of pollinating insects in the southern Illinois region along with principal investigator Dr. Sedonia Sipes and her students. Master of Science degree in Plant Biology under Dr. Sipes in 2013, investigating plant reproductive biology and plant-insect interactions. He has also published research on birds with Dr. Lynn Siefferman at Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA. Nathan’s time as a Peace Corps (USA) volunteer in Latin America has allowed him to participate in many environmental conservation projects in Panama and Peru, including organizing the second BioBlitz of Peru with collaborators at SERNANP, Universidad Continental, Denver Zoo, and ECOAN. He spent a year as a Peace Corps Response volunteer at Universidad Continental developing and teaching an ecology course for the environmental engineering program with professors Elizabeth Ore Nunez and Janet Inga Guillen.