People at MBC

Tracy Monique Magellan
Outreach Manager

Montgomery Botanical Center
11901 Old Cutler Road
Miami, FL 33156

305-667-3800 ext. 114
tracym@montgomerybotanical.org

Summary

Ms. Tracy Magellan has headed the Outreach and Communications department at Montgomery Botanical Center since 2008.  Her responsibilities include grant writing and development, volunteer management, and print and website communications.

Ms. Magellan began her botanical career in 1997 while at G. Holmes Braddock Sr. High in Miami, FL.  She was a genetics intern at Florida International University (FIU) working with Dr. David Kuhn in the Botany Department.  She also worked at the Botany Department at FIU for two summers while in college: one summer with Dr. David Lee (1998) and one summer with Dr. Jennifer Richards (1999). 

Ms. Magellan received an Associate of Arts in Biology from Miami Dade College in 2000 and a Bachelor of Science in Botany from the University of Florida in 2002.

Upon graduation, Ms. Magellan acquired a position with the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service-Subtropical Horticulture Research Station (aka. Chapman Field) in Miami, FL and worked there for two years (2002-2004) in the Entomology department under the supervision of Robert Heath, Dr. Nancy Epsky, and Dr. Tom Weissling. 

Ms. Magellan returned to school and earned a Master of Environmental Science with a focus in Tropical Ecology from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2007.  While at Yale she studied ecology and completed two master's projects. One on the diversity of lepidoptera in pure and mixed plantation of eight native tree species at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica and the second on cedar swamp ecology in Connecticut and the growth patterns in 15 years.  

Ms. Magellan's training is in Botany, Terrestrial Ecology, Plant-Insect Interactions, and Conservation.

Education

Master of Environmental Science
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2007).

Bachelor of Science, Major in Botany
University of Florida (2002).

Associate of Arts, Major in Biology
Miami Dade College (2000).

Publications

Magellan, T. M., Montagnini, F. and Montero, J. 2011. Diversity of Lepidoptera in Pure and Mixed Plantations of Eight Native Tree Species at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. In F. Montagnini and C. Finney (Eds.) Restoring Degraded Landscapes with Native Species in Latin America. Hauppauge: Nova Press, pp. 127-144.

Griffith P., A. Strader, T. Magellan, and L. Noblick. 2011. Roystonea and Pseudophoenix: essential palms at Montgomery Botanical Center. The Palm Journal 196: 9-11.

Magellan, T. M. 2010. Book Review of Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research.  Economic Botany 64(4):390-391.

Magellan, T. M. 2010. Book Review of The Global Migrations of Ornamental Plants: How the World Got into Your Garden.  Economic Botany 64(2):183-184.

Field experience

Costa Rica (2006)

United States (1998-1999, 2002-2004, 2005-2006, 2011)

Volunteering
Fairchild Tropical Garden - laboratory experiments
Miami Children’s Hospital - Oncology and Hematology
Miami MetroZoo- Museum Volunteer
5th Meeting Group of the Working Group of Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere
Community Day at the USDA
West Kendall Regional Library

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11901 Old Cutler Road • Coral Gables, Florida  33156 USA
(305) 667-3800  •  FAX (305) 667-5984