Elva Escobar
Title:
Prof.
First Name:
Elva
Last Name:
Escobar
Gender:
female
Position:
Director
Institution:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología
Country:
Mexico
Email:
escobri@cmarl.unam.mx
Phone:
52 5554350704
Website:
www.icmyl.unam.mx
Sector:
Sectors - Other:
and currently director of ICML UNAM
Subgroups Specialised:
Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheid Paracarida: Amphipoda, Isopoda, Mysidace Leptostraca
Organisms specialised in:
Technologies and techniques:
Oceanographic Locations:
Oceanographic Locations - Other:
Caribbean Sea
Deep Ocean Vertical Zones:
Deep Sea Habitats:
Deep Sea Habitats - Other:
Escarpments
Involvement in policy or management:
Experience with bodies or processes:
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Developing codes of conduct
- Developing impact assessment guidelines/standards
- Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
- International Seabed Authority (ISA)
- National government advisors
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) or any of its Commissions
- UN Regular Process for Reporting and Assessment of the Marine Environment
- United Nations or UN-based meetings
Primary Language:
Primary Language - Other:
English, German, French
Anything other contribution:
Provide standards for reporting and serving biological data, bioinformatic and biotechnology information with available repositories that cover different scales of sizes, time and space Continuous capacity building in developing countries with access to technology development
Primary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise:
Committees:
ISA (LTC 2006-2016)
CONANP (member)
SCOR (member)
3 priority science questions that need to be answered:
1. publish quality taxonomy data to support sound sound governance and environmental management , both local and regional 2. count with all accessible (open access) publications, genetic data and samples (specimens material repositories) to ensure long-term viability of data and iterative building of deep ocean ecosystems knowledge 3. accessibility of materials for its long-term use in science and baseline evaluation