Project Organization

PRORENA is led by a Committee of Principal Investigators, including the Project Director and two representatives each from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The Committee of PI's is advised by a Steering Committee consisting of 6 domestic and 6 international advisors.

The work of the project is carried out by the Nursery Section (responsible for nursery research and production) the Field Research Section (responsible for both socio-economic and biophysical field research), and the Business Development section (responsible for conducting financial and policy research, and for developing reforestation business models).

Field research is managed through 2 Field Offices in Cocle and Los Santos Provinces, and from the main project office in Panama City (see Where We Work). These three offices manage the project's four Core Research Sites (CRS) and associated Satellite Research Sites (see Research Programs).