Costa Rica
Eric Alfaro
Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica
Webpage: https://cigefi.ucr.ac.cr/team/eric-j-alfaro-phd/
Email: erick.alfaro@ucr.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica
Region (s) of expertise: Central America
Keywords: Climatology, climate variability, climate change, physical oceanography, meteorology, physical oceanography, meteorology
IAI themes:
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Inty Arcos
Institution: Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecoregión Andina. (CONDESAN) y Fundación Imaymana
Webpage: https://condesan.org / https://fundacionimaymana.org
Email: inty.arcos@condesan.org
Country (ies) of expertise: Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Landscape-scale ecological restoration, sustainable land management, environmental governance, conservation strategies, environmental services.
IAI themes:
Food security
Languages: Spanish
Jorge Amador Astua
Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica
Webpage: -
Email: jorge.amador@ucr.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica, US, Italia, UK
Region (s) of expertise: Tropical Regions of the Intra-American Seas
Keywords: Climate, climate variability and tropical climate change, Caribbean Low-Level Jet
IAI themes:
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Julio César Calvo-Alvarado
Institution: Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Webpage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9555-6420
Email: jucalvo@itcr.ac.cr / jcesar.calvo@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica, Panamá, Guatemala, México, Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: Central America
Keywords: Ecology, hydrology, natural resources, restoration, conservation, ecosystem services, tropical soils, forestry, wetlands
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish and English
Fernando Casanoves
Institution: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Webpage: https://www.catie.ac.cr/
Email: casanoves@catie.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Víctor O. Magaña Rueda
Institution: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Webpage: -
Email: victormr@servidor.unam.mx
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Edgar Mayeregger
Institution: Ministerio de Agricultura, Paraguay – Coordinador Nacional de la Unidad de Gestión de Riesgos (UGR)
Webpage: www.mag.gov.py/unidaddegestionderiesgos
Email: shalom19@gmail.com / edgar.mayeregger@mag.gov.py
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA, México, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Turquía, Bharat (India), Israel, amongst others.
Region (s) of expertise: South America, Central America
Keywords: Agrometeorology, risk management, early warning, anticipatory action plan, agroclimatic technical tables, agricultural insurance, sustainable use of water on farmers' farms, information for decision making
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and Portuguese
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Institution: Texas Tech University
Webpage: www.parktrends.org
Email: carlos.portillo@ttu.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, USA
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America, Southwest USA.
Keywords: Forest ecology, forest conservation, remote sensing, geographic information systems, land use and land cover change
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish and English
Juan Robalino
Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Costa Rica
Webpage: -
Email: juan.robalino@ucr.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Costa Rica, México y Guatemala
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Environmental economics, labor economics, economics of climate change
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Poverty and Equity
Languages: Spanish and English
Catherine Tucker
Institution: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Webpage: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/tuckerc/
Email: tuckerc@ufl.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Honduras, Mexico, Peru, (and to a lesser degree: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia)
Region (s) of expertise: Central and South America, and Mexico
Keywords: Economic and environmental anthropology, Environmental governance, political ecology, community-based conservation, institutional analysis, climate change adaptation, coffee production, value chains, belief systems, sustainability, indigenous ecological knowledge, agroforestry"
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese (basic)