Zuzana Buřivalová is among 18 faculty who have been honored with 2026-27 H.I. Romnes Fellowships. The fellowships recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.

Buřivalová, associate professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, is a tropical forest ecologist whose lab uses bioacoustics to investigate  biodiversity in tropical and temperate forests, helping conservation decisions become evidence-based. Her Soundscape Baselines Project creates acoustic time capsules of intact forests worldwide. Her work has shaped strategy at The Nature Conservancy and supported Gabon’s first community-conserved area. She also teaches the popular undergraduate course Forests of the World.

Read more about the H.I. Romnes Fellowship and other recipients.