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Dr. Juan Carlos Herguera CIGoM Workshop at SUT USDr. Juan Carlos Herguera
Researcher, Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE) - Oceanography Division

Title of Presentation:
CIGoM presentation and overview of the project

Dr. Juan Carlos Herguera received his bachelor's degree in Geological Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 1982. He holds a diploma in Geological Sciences from University College London, England 1983; And a PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California San Diego, 1991. He received a Fulbright Scholarship during his UCSD doctorate and the Hispanoil Scholarship for his graduate degree at the University of London. and was an assistant researcher at the University of California, San Diego from 1986 to 1991. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2013. He is currently a Researcher of the Oceanography Division at CICESE, and has been an Associate Researcher of the SIO since 1997. He was Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Marine Ecology at CICESE during 2003-2007. He has directed 3 doctoral and 13 master's students. He has 32 articles in international journals of high impact, and 8 chapters in international books and is co-author of a book. He has also given a large number of invited talks at national and international meetings and presented more than 350 papers at national and international meetings and symposia. He has been responsible for several large-scale research projects in Paleoceanography and Climate Change. Currently he is the PI for the megaproject (Mexico's largest) funded by the SENER-CONACYT Hydrocarbons Fund entitled "Implementation of oceanographic observational networks (physical, geochemical and ecological) for the generation of scenarios of possible contingencies related to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico ". This project brings together 10 national institutions in the CIGoM Consortium and collaborations with 6 other national and 9 international institutions, and coordinates the work of more than 160 researchers.


Dr. Paula Perez CIGOMDr. Paula Perez
Researcher, Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE)- Department of Physical Oceanography

Title of presentation: 
Analysis of oil spill scenarios

Paula Pérez Brunius graduated from Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1996 and obtained a PhD in Physical Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, USA, in 2002. After two years working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, she returned to Mexico in 2005 to continue her postdoctoral degree at CICESE, where she is currently a Researcher in the Department of Physical Oceanography.
Her research interests have ranged from physical processes that occur on large oceanic scales such as the meridional circulation of the Atlantic, to increasingly smaller scales such as those involved in the mixing and dispersal of tracers in the Gulf of Mexico. Also of interest are the biophysical interactions relevant to the population dynamics of marine species in the region near the Pacific coast of Baja California and in the Gulf of Mexico. Her main working tool is the analysis of data obtained in the field, with particular interest in data measured by drifting instruments. In the Gulf of Mexico she has been a Principal Investigator in three group projects focused on the monitoring of various oceanographic variables: the most extensive is the program of continuous measurements of currents in the deep Gulf of Mexico financed by PEMEX, and complemented by a program of measurements with acoustically tracked subsurface floats funded by the US BOEM agency. Currently, she is part of the coordinating committee of a multi-institutional and interdisciplinary project (CIGoM) that addresses the issue of oil spills in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico financed by the SENER-CONACYT-Hidrocarburos fund, Mexico.
 
 

Dr. Victor Vidal SUT SpeakerDr. Victor Vidal
Parasite Ecologist and Senior Professor, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV-IPN)

Title of presentation: 
Analysis of oil spill scenarios

Biologist (1986) by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM; MSc (Marine Biology, 1990) CINVESTAV-IPN Mérida, México-MSc; PhD (Parasite Ecology) (1995) by The University of Exeter, UK. Professional Experience: Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV-IPN Campus Mérida (1990-1992); Senior Professor CINVESTAV-IPN Merida (1995-present). Member of the National Research System since 1992-present as SNI-Level 3. Academic Secretary of CINVESTAV-IPN Merida (2005-2008). Member (2009-2011) and Vice-President (2012-2015) of The Aquatic Animals Health Standards Commission of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE, France). Member of the Mexican Academy of Science since 2015. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Parasitology (USA) and the Journal of Helminthology (UK). FAO consultant since 2015. Member of the selection committee of the National Research System (Biology-Chemistry) (2016-2018). Author of more than 80 ISI scientific papers, editor of seven books and author of two books. Academic supervisor of seven PhD, 12 MSc and ten BSc theses. Financial support obtained from The National Research Council (México), the Mexican Oil Company (PEMEX), CONABIO (México) and The British Council (UK). Currently in charge of the Perdido region oceanographic cruises as part of the grant “Oceanographic Platforms, Baseline studies, Model Simulations, and Scenarios of the Natural Response to Large-Scale Oil Spills in the Gulf of Mexico ($75,000,000 USD) (2015-2020).



Dr. Tomas Salgado SUT CIGoMDr. Tomas Salgado
Researcher, Engineering and Industrial Development Center (CIDESI) - Energy Division

Title of presentation:
Observational Platforms, ROVs and Gliders
 
He leads the Underwater Robotics Laboratory (2007 - Present). The laboratory objective is to apply the underwater robotics and instrumentation knowledge to solve specifics needs by developing: technological services, applied research and technological Development. 
Dr. Tomás SALGADO is electrical engineer. He received a Master degree in Mecatronics by the CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico in 1999 and his Ph. D. degree in Automation by the LIRMM, France in 2004.  His research interests are: underwater robotics (ROVs and AUVs) technology, underwater robots applications, and underwater robots modeling and control. 



Dr. Francisco Ocampo CICESE SUT US Workshop

Dr. Francisco Ocampo
Researcher, Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE) - Department of Physical Oceanography
 

Title of presentation
Observational Platforms, ROVs and Gliders

Dr. Ocampo is an oceanographer, research scientist interested in ocean wave energy and the dynamics of ocean surface waves, as well as in the various air-sea interaction processes where sea waves play an important role. PhD in Oceanography by the University of Southampton (1989). His research focuses on approaching the problem of getting a better knowledge of the fundamental processes that affect the transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, including direct field observations, numerical modelling and remote sensing of the ocean surface. 
He is the leader of the Waves Group at CICESE, within the Department of Physical Oceanography,
he is author or co-author of more than 30 scientific articles published in internationally recognized journals, 
and he has been director or co-director of more than 20 undergaduate and graduate thesis. 



Dr. Alexei Licea CIGoM SUT US Workshop

Dr. Alexei Licea
Researcher, Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE) - Applied and Experimental Biology Division

Title of Presentation
Natural degradation of hydrocarbons

Dr. Licea receive his Ph.D degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1997. Since 2009 he has served as head of the Applied and Experimental Biology Division at the Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE), and PI of the Biomedical Innovation Department since 2000. His scientific achievements include 52 papers, 5 patents, and has advised 62 undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. students. His current research projects include the metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community from the Gulf of Mexico, characterization of the oil biodegradation using mass spectrometry, shark antibodies to develop new drugs and diagnostic tools, and conotoxins as drugs for tuberculosis, diabetes, cancer, pain and to revert photo-aging.



Dr. Sharon Herzka CIGoM SUT WorkshopDr. Sharon Herzka
Researcher, Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE)

Title of presentation
Baseline studies and environmental monitoring

Dr. Herzka received a Bachelors degree in Environmental Sciences from Lehigh University in 1993, and a Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and 2000 respectively. Since January 2001, she works as a research professor at the Scientific and High Education Research Center from Ensenada (CICESE) in the Department of Biological Oceanography.
Currently, she coordinates Line 2. Baseline studies and environmental monitoring for the SENER-CONACYT Hydrocarbon project "Implementation of networks of physical, geochemical, and ecological observations to generate scenarios upon possible contigencies related to the exploration and production of hydrocarbon in deep sea waters in the Gulf of mexico". Action Line 2 will perform 21 cruises within the Gulf of Mexico and generate an integrated database of physical, geochemical and ecological conditions in Mexico’s EEZ. It also includes surveys and satellite tagging of cetaceans and large pelagics and surveys of seagrass meadows on the Yucatan platform.



 

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