Hi there!

Welcome to my site. I am an Environmental Scientist, and I study coupled human-ocean systems, with an emphasis on the design and evaluation of policy interventions that seek to conserve and manage natural resources. I am particularly interested in how policies and ecological processes shape human incentives, and how human actions modify the marine environment. I draw from my training in oceanography, ecology and environmental economics and combine geo-spatial, econometric, and machine learning methods into my research.

Note: I am in the process of revamping my website. In the meantime, you might find some broken links and outdated projects.

Courses at UM:

• EVR 662 - Intermediate spatial analysis: An introduction to geocomputation
• EVR 528/628 - Introduction to Data Management and Visualization for Environmental Scientists

EcoDataScience workshops:

• Apr, 2021 - GNU make for reproducible workflows
• March, 2019 - GitHub for collaboration
• February, 2018 - Advanced RMarkdown
• September, 2017 - Intro to RMarkdown

Other workshops:

• March, 2019 - Evaluation of Marine Reserves in Mexico (spanish) to environmental managers. La Paz, Mexico
• November, 2018 - Evaluation of Marine Reserves in Mexico (spanish) to environmental managers. Cancun, Mexico
• September, 2017 - Evaluation of Marine Reserves in Mexico (spanish) to environmental managers. Mexico City, Mexico
• June, 2017 - A General Approach and Tool to Evaluate the Effectiveness of No-Take Marine Reserves EBM tools Webinar

Calendar availability here.

• jc_villasenor@miami.edu
• +1 207 205 8435
• 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149