OceanExpert ID : 24821
Dr. Laura Elena CARRILLO
Researcher, Principal Investigator of the Academic Group Procesos Oceanograficos y DInamica de Sistemas Acuaticos
Department for the Observation and Study of the Land, Atmosphere and Ocean
Unidad Chetumal, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Av. Centenario km 5.5, CP 77014
AP 424 Chetumal, Quintana Roo
Mexico
Nationality
Mexico
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Telephone
+52 983 8350440
ORCID :
ORCID: 0000-0001-8296-007X
PhD
Research
Physical Oceanography
I am working in the Western Caribbean Sea that includes the Yucatan channel (the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean) towards Honduras. Observational coastal oceanography by using of mooring instruments, field data collection, hydrographic and currents data from oceanographic cruises in the Mesoamerican Reef.
Research Interest: Cross-Shelf exchange, thermohaline structure and circulation
in reef systems and estuaries, physical oceanographic processes and marine resources,
biophysical coastal processes (connectivity), coastal altimetry.
Caribbean Sea
Observational Physical Oceanography, Shelf sea and coastal circulation, Dynamics of coastal lagoons, Physical oceanographic processes of reef areas
English and Spanish
I am a physical oceanographer based on a research center located in the Mexican Caribbean ECOSUR (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur -Unidad Chetumal) from the Mexican Council of science and technology called CONACyT. ECOSUR is a multidisciplinary center that focus on conservation and biodiversity, also social aspects.