Hydrographic surveyor cat. A and B, second commander of the BAP “Zimic”, hydrographic vessel of the Peruvian Hydrographic Service. His research focuses on deep, mid and shallow water surveys, with different objectives as cartographic, scientific, geological, oceanographic. Experience in many hydrographic campaigns, he was in charge of the hydrography division of the B.A.P. “Carrasco” during … Continued
Cussui Segura is an experienced engineer with a major in geography and over 14 years of working in natural protected areas across Peru. Her expertise lies in utilizing GIS tools to track and analyze deforestation patterns, spatial and temporal planning of conservation activities to address identified threats, monitoring and analyzing biological diversity within protected areas, … Continued
David Correa is a physicist associated with the Peruvian Institute of Marine Research (IMARPE). He specializes in the dynamics of the Peruvian coastal upwelling, marine meteorology, and related processes. He has contributed to the project “Adaptation to Climate Change of the Fishery Sector and the Marine-Coastal Ecosystem of Peru,” which was funded by the Inter-American … Continued
Dr. Dimitri Gutiérrez is a biological oceanographer of the Peruvian Institute of Marine Research (IMARPE). His studies have been focused on the effects of climate variability on the marine productivity and subsurface oxygenation in the coastal South Eastern Pacific involving paleoproxies and in situ data analyses, benthic responses to natural and human-induced hypoxia, and recent … Continued
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
