Allison Marcela Penate
Research Scholar
Biography
Allison M. Penate is Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University - OARDC. In 2013, Allison received a B.S. in Environment and Development from the Panamerican College of Agriculture, Zamorano, in Honduras. She did an undergraduate internship in a coffee farm in Guatemala to install and design a scale biodigester for coffee waste for cleaner production. Her graduation thesis was "Distribution of Honduran bats according to landuse". In 2014, she started working as a researcher in Nicaragua with the Costa Rican NGO “Centre of Rural Development Studies" with NICADAPTA project, focused on the market changes for the prices of coffee and cacao, and giving technical assistance to small producers. In 2015, she started working with domestic and agricultural chemical products related to soil conservation for better production, using the right volumes in M3 and Associates in El Salvador. Currently, she is doing research at the Weed Lab in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.