Bibi Santidrián Tomillo
Among her responsibilities and motivations are: scientific research applied to sea turtle conservation, overseeing long-term leatherback turtle monitoring projects in Playa Grande and Cabuyal (Costa Rica), and encouraging the training of young researchers in Costa Rica.
Jeffrey Seminoff
Jeffrey has been working on research and conservation of sea turtles since 1992.
Javier Antonio Quiñones Davila
His main research and doctoral thesis focused on the occurrence of jellyfish and its relation to the environmental variability at interannual scales in Peru. Since 2007, he has conducted research on sea turtles, especially Green and Leatherback, and their population dynamics and foraging ecology. His research focus changed to seabirds in 2018, especially albatrosses and […]
Nestor Antonio Dávalos Alonso
Nestor is a young researcher dedicated to the care, protection, and conservation of sea turtles. So far in his career, , he has worked in different parts of Mexico and Costa Rica. In his last project, he worked modeling the distribution of the leatherback turtles in the Eastern Pacific.
Alan Alfredo Zavala Norzagaray
Alan is a research professor at the National Polytechnic Institute-CIIDIR Sinaloa, Mexico, where he has been working for 21 years. He is the Coordinator of the Wildlife Protection and Conservation Program in the Department of the Environment, which he established in 2005; and he is the Head of the Wildlife and Emerging Diseases Laboratory. He […]
Rosa Argelis Ruiz
Argelis Ruiz worked at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for 40 years (1977-2017) on administrative-technical roles and responsibilities for the management and coordination of scientific research facilities and a public educational center that is currently the Punta Culebra Natural Center in Calzada de Amador. In 1978, she started working with sea turtles on Isla Cañas […]
José Urteaga
A Conservationist interested in conservation as a social process and how conservation projects encourage the involvement and empowerment of local communities.
Velkiss Gadea Espinal
Velkiss has a Bachelor in Biology with a focus on Fishery Resources from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) at León. She has 21 years of experience with conservation work in coastal marine areas of the Pacific of Nicaragua focused on programs for fisheries management and sea turtles conservation. Her professional development started in […]
Bryan Wallace
Bryan is a bilingual collaborative conservationist and co-coordinator of the Red Laúd OPO. His work integrates primary research, collaboration, and facilitation to assess how people affect natural resources and develop strategies for resource management within limited budgets. He has experience in collaborative projects related to research and wildlife monitoring management in various geographies, mainly in […]
Anielka García Hernández
Anielka is a Bachelor of Biology with a major in Natural Resource Management. She has experience in in Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). She has worked with birds in Radio Telemetry and recently in an EIA Environmental Impact Assessment Course. She has worked with different taxa in both Flora and Fauna. She had […]