Ecuador
Inty Arcos
Institution: Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecorregión Andina. (CONDESAN) y Fundación Imaymana
Webpage: https://condesan.org / https://fundacionimaymana.org
Email: inty.arcos@condesan.org
Country (ies) of expertise: Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Landscape-scale ecological restoration, sustainable land management, environmental governance, conservation strategies, environmental services.
IAI themes:
Food security
Languages: Spanish
Alisson F. Barbieri
Institution: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Webpage: -
Email: barbieri@cedeplar.ufmg.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Demography, climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, urban, Amazon health, land use and land cover change
IAI themes: -
Languages: English and Portuguese
Mercy J. Borbor
Institution: Facultad de Ingeniería Marítima y Ciencias del Mar FIMCM, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral y Centro Internacional del Pacifico para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres
Webpage: https://coda.io/@mercy-borbor-cordova/research
Email: meborbor@espol.edu.ec / mjborbor@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Ecuador
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Marine-coastal resources, climate, health, risk management, urban ecology, multi-hazard early warning systems
IAI themes:
Health and wellness
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish and English
Fernando Casanoves
Institution: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Webpage: https://www.catie.ac.cr/
Email: casanoves@catie.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Omar Defeo
Institution: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
Webpage: http://undecimar.fcien.edu.uy/
Email: odefeo@fcien.edu.uy / omar.defeo@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Fisheries, climate change, artisanal fishing, adaptation, coastal management, beaches
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Kam-biu Liu
Institution: Louisiana State University, Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Webpage: -
Email: kliu1@lsu.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: U.S.A. (including Puerto Rico), Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Dominican Republic
Region (s) of expertise: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean region, Baja California, Central America, Amazonia, Andes
Keywords: Paleotempestology, paleoecology, coastal environmental changes, paleoclimatology, hurricanes, mangroves, sediments, wetlands, lakes, lagoons, ice cores
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: English
Betina Lomovasky
Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; CONICET, UNMDP
Webpage: https://www.iimyc.gob.ar/iimyc/es/grupos-de-investigacion/grupo-emccc/
Email: lomovask@mdp.edu.ar
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Fisheries, yellow clam, climate change, small-scale fishery, adaptation, ocean acidification, SDG 14.3
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Carlos Murillo
Institution: CINPE Costa Rica, Observatorio Del Desarrollo, UCR
Webpage: -
Email: camuza@gmail.com / carlos.murillozamora@ucr.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Central American countries. Colombia, Ecuador (especially), and Taiwan (maritime issues).
Region (s) of expertise: Central America, Eastern Tropical Pacific
Keywords: Foreign policy, the law of the sea, maritime delimitation, public policy, international relations, international relations
IAI themes:
Poverty and equality
Languages: Spanish and English (basic)
William Pan
Institution: Duke University
Webpage: -
Email: william.pan@duke.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Panama, Honduras
Region (s) of expertise: Amazon, Darien, Peruvian coast (Tumbes), Ecuador highlands
Keywords: Infectious disease, malaria, dengue, climate, land use/land cover change, gold mining, logging, mercury exposure, mercury bioaccumulation, tipping points, ENSO, chronic disease, child health, migration, fertility
IAI themes:
Food security
Health and well-being
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Poverty and Equality
Languages: English
Jeremy Pittman
Institution: School of the Environment, University of Waterloo
Webpage: -
Email: jpittman@uwaterloo.ca
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Uruguay, Dominica, Saint Lucia
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Environmental governance, Conservation policy, Sustainable livelihoods
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Health and wellness
Poverty and equality
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: English
Victor Raul Pacheco Torres
Institution: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Webpage: https://vrip.unmsm.edu.pe/dimapa/
Email: vpachecot@unmsm.edu.pe
Country (ies) of expertise: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia
Region (s) of expertise: Neotropics, Latin America
Keywords: Diversity, conservation, environmental impact, mammals
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Languages: Spanish and English
Evelia Rivera Arriaga
Institution: Instituto de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía del Golfo de México (EPOMEX) de la Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, UNDP-INECC
Webpage: -
Email: evrivera@uacam.mx
Country (ies) of expertise: Mexico, Ecuador
Region (s) of expertise: North America
Keywords: Coastal-marine management, marine policy, governance of socio-ecological systems
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Catherine Tucker
Institution: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Webpage: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/tuckerc/
Email: tuckerc@ufl.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Honduras, Mexico, Peru, (and to a lesser degree: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia)
Region (s) of expertise: Central and South America, and Mexico
Keywords: Economic and environmental anthropology, Environmental governance, political ecology, community-based conservation, institutional analysis, climate change adaptation, coffee production, value chains, belief systems, sustainability, indigenous ecological knowledge, agroforestry"
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese (basic)