Hugo Montoro is a retired Captain of the Peruvian Navy, specializing in Hydrography and Navigation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Maritime Naval Sciences from the Naval Academy, a Master’s degree in Earth Sciences from the University of New Hampshire, USA, and a Master’s degree in Maritime Strategy from the Naval War College. He also … Continued
Kemron Beache is from St.Vincent and the Grenadines, located in the South Eastern side of the Caribbean. Kemron holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He works for the Coast Guard as a Sub lieutenant and was last assigned to the Maritime Administration where his duties involved being the contact point for St.Vincent to the … Continued
Daina Mathai, from Mombasa, Kenya, is a Coastal and Marine Researcher with a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences. She earned a European Joint Master Degree (EJMD) in Water and Coastal Management from University of Bologna and the University of Càdiz. Her thesis work focused on the quantification of coastal ecosystem services with an emphasis on the … Continued
Erin E. Easton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and the Director of the UTRGV Marine Ecosystems Institute. Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of benthic fauna (i.e., those organisms that live in, on, or in association … Continued
Gustavo Cuadros, a fisheries engineer, has played a prominent role at the Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), serving as an integral part of the hydroacoustics team. His expertise lies in research on fish populations using this technique, addressing aspects such as biomass and vertical and horizontal distribution. A graduate of the Universidad Nacional Federico … Continued
Currently, head of the marine geology project at the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute – Perú (INGEMMET). The INGEMMET as the governing body of Geosciences, cooperates with the geological knowledge of the Peruvian coast and the seabed for strategic, geopolitical, marine planning purposes, identification of marine resources and governance for regional and local according to … Continued
Caio Gonçalves is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Geochemistry at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil, supervised by Dr. Rut Díaz. He received his B.Sc. in Geology from the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) in 2016, and his M.Sc. in Environmental Geochemistry from UFF in 2019, where he worked with … Continued
Dennis Romero has worked as a researcher at Instituto del Mar del Peru since 2014. His main scientific interests are focused on small-sized benthic communities from soft-bottom substrates in the Humboldt Current off Peru. In particular, he investigates the ecology of shelled microscopic organisms called foraminifera and their potential use in sediment records to reconstruct … Continued
Edgart Flores, is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research under the framework of the “Microbial Lipidomics in Changing Oceans” (MILCO) project funded by the NSF, delves into the lipid remodeling of microorganisms in response to a changing ocean. Dr. … Continued
Ernesto Fernández Johnston, is a Biologist at the team of Marine Geology Lab of the Peruvian Institute of Marine Research (IMARPE). His studies are about paleoecology of mollusc assemblages from quaternary marine terraces and paleolagoons, paleocology of oysters natural Banks from the mangroove and sclerochonology and microgrowth in mollusc shells. He participate also in collaborative … Continued
