OceanExpert ID : 35169
Javier Andrés VERA-DUARTE
Assistant Research and SCUBA diver
Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Recursos Naturales
Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
Avenida Borgoño 16344 Reñaca Viña del Mar
Casilla 5080 Reñaca Viña del Mar Viña del Mar
Valparaiso
Chile
Nationality
Chile
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ORCID :
http://0002-0539-1245
Marine Biologist
Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Operational Support (technical)
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Research Support Services
I am a marine biologist who works as Assistant Research at Labiti Lab located in Montemar, Cochoa, Chile.
My duties are related to support researchs from CIMAR, FONDECYT and INACH projects (e.g. technical support, sampling expeditions, data management, and elaborate manuscripts).
In addition, I have been doing some expedition to oceanic islands such as Juan Fernández archipelago and Rapa nui (Easter island) to understand their marine ecology and how their community has been working to conserve their resources.
As a research assistant I have been working in trophic ecology from diverse fish larvae (e.g. Labrisomidae, Notothenidae, Pinguipedidae and Myctophidae) and juveniles stages of fishes (e.g. Gobidae, Labridae) which have been collected in different environments such as open and coastal sea of Chile and Antarctica, and oceanic islands such as Rapa nui (Easter island) and Juan Fernández archipelago.
Additionally, I have been working with morphological tools such as Geometrics morphometrics (it has been possible helped by double staining method) and Elliptic Fourier Analysis to evaluate shape changes in life history traits of fishes (e.g Gobidae and Gobiesocidae) which are related to feeding structures and otolith shapes to compare among temporal and spatial scales.
Spanish and English
