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Rachel Collin, STRI Staff Scientist and Bocas del Toro Research Station Director.
Principal Investigator Collin is a marine biologist interested in how environmental conditions effect marine invertebrates. On the Caribbean coast her work focuses on how warming and hypoxia impact the performance and survival of coral reef animals. For this project she is overseeing the weekly collection of physical and nutrient data, rainfall, and documentation of the river hydrology. |
Kasey Clark, STRI Research Associate and Lecture in Environmental Change, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool
Former post-doctoral fellow, Clark is a hydrologist and biogeochemist with general interests in tropical river hydrology, role of rivers at the land-ocean interface, nutrient cycles, carbon cycle, mangrove die-back, river particulate organic carbon and river suspended sediment. Within this project, Clark is determining river discharge and nutrient fluxes into Bahia Almirante. In 2019, Clark set-up six river gauging stations, developed field protocols, oversees routine river monitoring carried out by the techs, and carried out fieldwork, during rainstorm events when river discharge and nutrient fluxes are high, and the most challenging to quantify. |
Ximena Boza, MarineGEO Research Technician
Boza is a marine biologist with a specialization in Oceanography. She is mostly interested in the physical pathway of Oceanography, including sea level rise, ocean and atmosphere interactions, and understanding how the ocean reacts to global climate change. She works to collect all the different data streams on this project. |
Carolina César, MarineGEO Research Technician
Research Technician César is marine biologist interested in studying health, lesions and diseases of the coral reef ecosistems, including how the environmental conditions of the ocean can affect them. She works to collect all the different data streams on this project. |