Curriculum VitaeAna Fonseca

General information

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Competence areas

Research on marine ecology and geo-information; Coordination of scientific expeditions; Environmental Impact Assessments; Protected Areas Management Plans; Monitoring; Rapid Ecological Assessments; Mapping; creation and development of Geographic Information Systems; Geographic information multi-criteria analysis (Gap, Risk, Vulnerability); Remote Sensing; Environmental training and education; Conservation Programs Management.

Work experience

Conservation

Species Coordinator for WWF Latin America and the Caribbean: March 2010 to present. Marine and Species Programme officer for Latin America and the Caribbean at WWF Central America

Program Office, San José Costa Rica: November 2008 to March 2010. 17 consultancies for conservation organizations. The most relevant are:

1. Marine and coastal chapter for the State of Nation. Estado de La Nación: May to June 2008.2. Analysis of the marine and coastal situation in Central America. UICN/ORMA: July to December 2007.3. Analysis of the Tropical Eastern Pacific Marine and Coastal Corridor. Case study: Costa Rica. UICN/ORMA: June 2007.4. Creation of a Geographic Information System for the Director Plan to Integrated Marine and Coastal Management of the

South Pacific and Gulf of Nicoya Multiple Use Marine Areas. BID: January to June, 2007.5. Bathymetric and marine habitats map of Caño island, TNC: January to July 2007.6. Conservation Plan of Osa (“Área de Conservación Osa”, ACOSA). TNC: June to August 2006.7. Scientific and logistic coordinator for the Rapid Reef Assessment in the Caribbean of Honduras and Guatemala. TNC: June

to August, 2006.8. Scientific coordinator for the Rapid Reef Assessment of Marine Ecosystems at Cayos Miskitus, Nicaragua.

Proarca/Costas and WWF: July to August 2001. 9. Scientific coordinator for the Marine Habitats Mapping of Cayos Cochinos, Honduras. HCRF and WWF: May to June

2001.10. Scientific coordinator for the Marine Habitats Mapping and Rapid Reef Assessment at Barbareta island, Bay Islands,

Honduras. WWF: February to March 2001.11. Rapid Reef Assessment of Punta Manabique Coral Reefs, Caribbean coast of Guatemala. FUNDARY and TNC: May 2000.

3 Environmental Impact Assessments Marine Biologist at the Institute for Sustainable Politics (IPS): May to August 2002. Environmental coordinator of the Namasöl Program, at the Iriria Tsochök Foundation: September 1999 to

June 2000.

Research

Researcher at the Marine Research Center (“Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología” CIMAR), University of Costa Rica (UCR): 2000 to 2008. 34 scientific publications. The most relevant are:

1. Fonseca E., A.C. 2008. Coral reefs of Miskitus cays, Nicaragua. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 20. 10 p.2. Fonseca, A.C., H. M. Guzmán, J. Cortés & C. Soto. 2007. Comparison of Quickbird and Hymap for marine habitats map of

isla del Caño. Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium of Remote Sensing. San José, Costa Rica. 3. Fonseca, A.C., J. Cortés & M. Montero. 2007. Bathymetry of isla del Caño, Costa Rica. Proceedings of the 32nd Symposium

of Remote Sensing. San José, Costa Rica.4. Fonseca E., A.C., E. Salas and J. Cortés. 2006. Monitoreo del arrecife coralino de Meager Shoal, Parque Nacional Cahuita,

Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP). Rev. Biol. Trop. 54: 755-763.5. Fonseca E., A.C., J. Cortés and P. Zamora. 2006. Monitoreo del manglar de Gandoca, Costa Rica (sitio CARICOMP). Rev.

Biol. Trop. 55: 23-31.6. Fonseca E., A.C., V. Nielsen and J. Cortés. 2006. Monitoreo de pastos marinos en Perezoso, Cahuita, Costa Rica (sitio

CARICOMP). Rev. Biol. Trop. 55: 55-66.7. Fonseca E., A.C. and H. Dean. (2006). Non-colonial coral macro-borers from the south Pacific of Costa Rica (eastern

Pacific). Rev. Biol. Trop. 54: 101-115.8. Fonseca E., A.C. and A. Arrivillaga. 2003. Coral reefs of Guatemala. Pp: 159-169 In Cortés, J. (ed.) Latin American coral

reefs. Elsevier Science. 497 p.

Site Director of CARICOMP: 1999 to 2008. Research assistant to Dr. Jorge Cortés at CIMAR: June 1992 to December 1999. Biologist at the Environmental Impact Unit of Environmental Programs (“Programas Ambientales”,

ProAmbi), UCR: August 1994 to October 1996.

Teaching

Teacher of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, basic and advanced courses for graduate and post-graduate students at the University of Costa Rica: 2006 to 2008.

Teacher of Marine Biology for exchange students at the Veritas University: 2001 to 2006 Ecology advisor for exchange students at the program “Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM):

2001 to present.

Formal studies

M.Sc. in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing applied to Coastal Zone Studies, since April 16, 2004. International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Enschede, The Netherlands: from September 2002 to April 2004.

M.Sc. in Biology with specialization on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, since March 24, 2000. Graduation with honors at the UCR.

Student exchange. Research on the Sustainable Development Model in The Netherlands, in the context of the Bilateral Agreement for Sustainable Development Costa Rica-The Netherlands (ABDS): January 1996.

Bachelor of Science (Biology) since October 24, 1994. Primary and high school at the “Liceo Franco Costarricense”: 1977 to 1987.

Languages

Spanish: 100% English: 90% French: 90%