Director of Upward Bound

Year Joined RCNJ: 2009

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7774
• Email: ssuarez@ramapo.edu
• Office: G-427
• Office Hours: MR 12:00-1:00; Other times by appointment

Education:

• B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• M.A., New York University
• M. Phil., New York University and NYCEP
• Ph.D., New York University and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology

Courses Offered:

• Genetics (lec & lab)

Research Interests:

• Genetics as a tool for understanding animal behavior, in particular in New World Primates
• Animal behavior in general, especially reproductive behavior and mating systems
• Population genetics in New World Primates, specifically, gene flow with regard to various behavioral characteristics, such as hybridization and inbreeding avoidance
• Neotropical ecology and field methods and the various ways in which primates adapt to their environments, including: feeding ecology, polyspecific associations, and competition
• Sustainable development, land-use planning and conservation. I am particularly interested and concerned with how developing countries will manage to maintain their natural areas while competing in a global economy, fighting poverty, and managing their own political instability and corruption

Recent Publications:

• S.S. Suárez. 2006. Diagnóstico de Fauna. In E. Chávez de los Ríos, et. al. ‘Mancomunidad Amazónica Unión Amazónica Filadelfia-Bolpebra’: Plan Municipal de Ordenamiento Territorial Mancomunidad Filadelfia – Bolpebra. Landivar S.R.L., Santa Cruz.
• A.K. Surridge, S.S. Suárez, H.M. Buchanan-Smith, and N.I. Mundy. 2005. Non-random association of opsin alleles in wild groups of red-bellied tamarins (Saguinus labiatus) and maintenance of the colour vision polymorphism. Biology Letters 1(4): 465-468.
• A.K. Surridge, S.S. Suárez, H.M. Buchanan-Smith, A.C. Smith, and N.I. Mundy. 2005. Color vision pigment frequencies in wild tamarins (Saguinus spp.). American Journal of Primatology, 67 (4): 463-470.
• S. Suárez y G. Calderón. 2003. Large Mammals. In Rapid Biological Inventories:05 – Bolivia: Pando, Madre de Dios. W.S. Alverson (ed.), Chicago, Illinois: The Field Museum, pg. 39-42.
• S. Suárez, G. Calderón, V. Chávez. Mammals. 2003. In Rapid Biological Inventories:06 – Bolivia: Pando, Federico Román. W.S. Alverson, D.K. Moskovitz, I.C. Halm (eds.), Chicago, Illinois: The Field Museum, pg. 49-53.
• S. Suárez, A. Hanson, V. Sodaro, S. Dammermann, L. Haggerty. Primates. 2000. In Rapid Biological Inventories:01 – Bolivia: Pando, Río Tahuamanu. W.S. Alverson, D.K. Moskovitz, J.M. Shopland (eds.), Chicago, Illinois: The Field Museum, pg. 40-44.