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Forest engineer

Research
Data Management

Research Support Services

• To plan, participate, and lead mangrove field trips, where a forest inventory is carried out: determination and maintenance of plots, measure of diameters and estimation of heights, botanic identification, count of seedlings and propagules at sub-plots, perform vegetation and land profiles, and measure of physical-chemical variables of the water and soil, according to the project’s requirements.
• To scan and analyze the mangrove data. This includes characterizing the composition and structure of the tree community (importance value index, density, basal area, and diametric distribution, among other indicators), and regeneration (density of seedlings and propagules per species), and the physical-chemical characterization of water and soil (average and extreme values of temperature, salinity, electrical conductivity, and oxide-reduction potential at various depths), as well as the multiannual changes assessment of each sub-component, according to the project’s requirements.
• Preparation of technical reports and presentation on the mangrove, based on the results of structure, natural and physical-chemical regeneration, both specific and multiannual.
• To support other components at research cruises or various activities. Support to processing water samples and fishing survey.

Caribbean Sea

• Environment: Field, laboratory and office work. High mountains, mangroves, flat lands, deserts, hot and cold climate.

• Aptitudes: Personnel management and coordination, research and public speaking.
• Abilities: Database management, mapping, topographic levelling for land profiles, profiles drawing, planting evaluation, forest species arrangement designing, driving, diving, simple and complex report writing, geodatabase generation, forest zoning, plots establishment, trees, saplings and seedlings measurement, botanic prosecution for herbarium and species identification, physical-chemical parameters measuring, secondary information research for environment characterization, photographic interpretation, land cover classification, GPS management, and biomass estimation.
• Software: Geographic Information System packages, Microsoft Office package, Statistics packages, AutoCAD, CorelDraw.

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I'm a Forest engineer with the capacity to understand and to manage the territory and the forests as from the regional as the local ambit; solid knowledge in forest inventory, cartography, forest planning, ecology, coastal ecosystems, environmental services and climate change. I have affinity and pleasure to field work, ability with the information processing and analysis, excellent writing skills of reports. I’m constantly interested on learning, researching, and applying of knowledge. Leadership, teamwork and interdisciplinary work Capacities. I am dedicated, responsible, aesthetic sense, creativity and requirement for the well done job.