Oscar Ancco is a Fishing Engineer with mention in Marine Geology and Hydroacoustics. Currently, he belongs to the geological team of the project “Exploring the biodiversity and deep-sea habitats of the Nazca Ridge and adjacent areas” led by the Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE). His research focuses on prospecting for areas of gas flares … Continued
Igor Fernández is a biologist from the Basque Country University (Spain), with postgraduate MSc and PhD studies in Biological Oceanography at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). During his thesis, recognized with the extraordinary PhD award, Dr. Fernandez elucidated the environmental control on the plankton metabolism and the efficiency of the biological … Continued
Javier Quiñone’s main research and PhD thesis was focused on jellyfish occurrence and its relationship with environmental variability in Peru. In 2007, he started a strong research on sea turtles, their population dynamics, and foraging ecology. Lately, since 2018, he has shifted his research to migratory seabirds, especially albatrosses and petrels, their spatial distribution, foraging … Continued
Jorge Cardich Salazar is a biologist with a PhD in Geosciences from Federal Fluminense University in Brazil. He is a tenured professor at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University (UPCH) and in charge of the marine biology laboratory. Jorge specializes in benthic foraminifera and paleo-oceanography in oxygen-deficient settings, such as the Peruvian Sea. His research interests are … Continued
Electronic Engineer and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Concepción, Chile. He works as a development engineer at the Center of Instrumentation for Oceanography (CIO), where he focuses on the development of the next generation of monitoring systems and chemical sensors using artificial intelligence methods. On this cruise, he will deploy the Lander “Lafken” … Continued
Biologist Jose Santamaría works at Peruvian Sea Research Institute (IMARPE), where he is part of the Biodiversity Area Team since 2018. He is in charge of the Institutional Scientific Collection, the largest biological collection focused on marine species from Peru. His research focuses on the taxonomy of marine invertebrates, particularly crustaceans and molluscs. He is … Continued
Luis Quipúzcoa is the coordinator responsible for the Marine Benthos Laboratory of the Instituto del Mar del Perú. He is a graduate of the Universidad Particular Ricardo Palma – Faculty of Biological Sciences and has a Master’s degree in Aquatic Resources from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, with extensive experience in field work, … Continued
Michelle Graco is a Biologist and holds a Doctorate in Oceanography from the University of Concepción and Paris VI University. She currently serves as the Coordinator of Research at the Chemical and Geology Oceanography Department at IMARPE. Additionally, she is a professor at the Master of Marine Sciences program at the University Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). … Continued
Nadín Ramírez is an Oceanographer dedicated to work in the Center for Oceanographic Instrumentation in the University of Concepción, Chile, with focus on enhancing the accessibility on scientific equipment, calibrating oceanographic sensors and developing new technologies for ocean exploration. During the last years the exploration under the umbrella of the Millenium Institute of Oceanography, Chile … Continued
Biologist Patricia Ayón is the director of Biological Oceanography Research at the Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE) and is also a professor at Ricardo Palma University. Her scientific interest focuses on the diversity and ecology of zooplankton biovolumes and early stages of commercially important species as anchovy, jack mackerel, hake, squid among others, … Continued
