Climate Change, mountain geography, disaster risk, landslides, water resources management, integrated watershed management.
– PhD, in Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
– MSc, in Water Science, Policy and Management, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
– Master’s Lecturer at Del Valle University, Guatemala (2012-2017)
– Bachelor’s degree in Forest Engineering (Honors), Del Valle University, Guatemala.
– Baccalaureatus in Scientiis, Del Valle University, Guatemala.
– Director of the Private Institute for Climate Change Research (ICC) since 2010.
– Defensores de la Naturaleza Foundation
Researcher in the Motagua-Polochic Water Fund, Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. 2010.
– Environmental Studies Center, Del Valle University, Guatemala. Research associate in climate change and disasters. 2010.
– Amigos del río Ixtacapa Association, Guatemala, 2007-2009, Advisor on social organization for watershed management.
– Guatemalan Meteorology Institute (INSIVUMEH), Consultant on vulnerability to climate change, 2008.
– UNDP, consultant, co-author of the report “Climate Change and Human Development in Guatemala”, 2008.
– Defensores de la Naturaleza Foundation, Coordinator of a water management project in the San Jerónimo river basin, Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, 2004-05.
– Guatemalan Scholarship Association (ABG), Board assistant and coordinator of the UWC scholarship selection process, 1999-2004.
Find weather information from Southern Guatemala generated by the 32 and 6 in El Salvador, automatic stations. Information available is rainfall, temperature, relative humidity, leaf wetness, solar radiation, wind direction, wind speed.
This information is available for researchers, scientists, professors, students and the general public. Data is generated by the ICC’s automatic meteorological station network and is available through the website http://redmet.icc.org.gt/