Colton Collins

Colton Collins is a PhD candidate at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, specializing in Ecology since 2020, with notable achievements including leading a team to establish 19 remote Bornean forest plots during the COVID lockdown and executing data collection for three forest research projects in Brunei. As President of Plant Group Hawaii since 2012, Colton manages a team and oversees a living collection of over 300 Zingiberales, including 18 threatened species, while also leading the restoration of a four-acre native tropical rainforest. Previous experience includes serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at The Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i, where Colton developed distribution models for Heliconia species and presented findings at an international conference, and as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution, where tasks included digitizing field notes and conducting ecological modeling. Colton holds a Master of Science from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, a Bachelor of Science from the University of Portland, and has pursued additional courses related to environmental economics and tropical biology.