Welcome to my site. I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management in UC, Santa Barbara, where I broadly study the economics of biodiversity conservation. I draw from my training in ecology and environmental economics and combine geospatial, econometric, and machine learning methods to answer questions around the design and evaluation of policy interventions that seek to conserve and manage natural resources. I also run ERRE, a blog about all things R and RStudio in Spanish, and help organize EcoDataScience a community of Environmental Data Science at UCSB and beyond.
My research is supported by the Latin American Fisheries Fellowship Program, UC MEXUS - CONACyT, The Schmidt Environmental Fellows Program, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation .
Ph.D. Environmental Science and Management, Expected by June 2022
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB
Master of Environmental Science and Management, 2017
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB
B.Sc. in Oceanography, 2015
Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, UABC (México)
2020 - Present
Interactions between biodiversity and economic use of the oceans
Human and environmental dimensions of conservation
Environmental institutions and Ecological implications
The invasive lionfish in the Caribbean
Tutorials and short instruction sessions:
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for reproducible workflows as an eco-data-science workshop. Santa Barbara, USAWorkshops: