Researchers

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Biology Research Division / Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I collaborate with Dr Octavio Aburto Oropeza and colleagues on the Gulf of California Marine Program and DataMares. (http://www.gocmarineprogram.org) (http://datamares.ucsd.edu/en/). Part of this work also involves collaborating with researchers at El Centro para la Biodiversidad Marina y la Conservación A.C. (CBMC)My work focuses on the Gulf of California (the Sea of Cortez) and combines fisheries, ecology and economics. I am passionate about integrating sound ecological knowledge into policy in order to protect the Gulf of California’s resources from over-exploitation and degradation. The land-ocean interface is an area of high productivity and because of this it is also an area that sees a lot of human activity. It is therefore essential that we understand both the ecology of the desert and that of the ocean and how the two interact. Participating in N-Gen is one of the ways we can start to investigate this important boundary ecosystem between the Gulf and the Desert.