Speaker: Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, PhD
Deputy Director & Principal Investigator | Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center
Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Simon Fraser University, https://oceannexus.uw.edu/
Prof. Irina Marinov (EES Dept.) will be the moderator.
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Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor is deputy director of the Ocean Nexus Program and Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in applied resource economics and is engaged in research and policy on human development and the Blue Economy, including artisanal and Indigenous fisheries, ecotourism, and emerging ocean sectors in developing and developed regions including Belize, Canada, Central America, East Asia, Mexico, Patagonia, the USA, and West Africa. Cisneros-Montemayor has published over 60 peer-reviewed studies and book chapters, and is an active participant and advisor in international and national ocean policy.
Irina Marinov is a climate scientist and modeler working at the interface of chemical, biological, physical oceanography and large-scale atmosphere and climate dynamics. She runs climate models and analyze output of the latest generation of climate models and satellite data, to understand and predict changes in ocean circulation, and the global carbon, nutrient, oxygen and energy cycles on the planet. At Penn, she teaches classes on “Global Climate Change” and “Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics”. While at Penn she received the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Mentorship award.