Veronica Aguilar
Title:
M. en C.
First Name:
Veronica
Last Name:
Aguilar
Gender:
femenine
Position:
Aquatic Biodiversity Analist
Institution:
National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity
Country:
Mexico
Email:
vaguilar@conabio.gob.mx
Phone:
55 54045017
Website:
www.conabio.gob.mx
Sector:
Technologies and techniques:
Oceanographic Locations:
Oceanographic Locations - Other:
Caribbean Sea
Deep Ocean Vertical Zones - Other:
benthos
Deep Sea Habitats:
Involvement in policy or management:
- Fishing (trawling/long-lining/ghost fishing/bycatch)
- Mining (polymetallic sulphides / cobalt-rich crusts / polymetallic nodules / REMs / phophorites)
- Oil and Gas
- Gas Hydrates
- Acoustics
- Bioprospecting
- Climate Change
- Ocean Acidification
- Warming temperature
- Hypoxia/ Deoxygenation
- Nutrient loading
- Sewage disposal
- Large structure (wrecks/rigs) disposal
Experience with bodies or processes:
- United Nations or UN-based meetings
- UN Regular Process for Reporting and Assessment of the Marine Environment
- National government advisors
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- International Seabed Authority (ISA)
- Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
- Developing impact assessment guidelines/standards
Primary Language:
Primary Language - Other:
English
Primary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise:
3 priority science questions that need to be answered:
1. Establecimiento de una red de IAreas marinas protegidas que incluya zonas de alta biodiversidad y ambientes criticos 2. Establecer acuerdos vinculantes para un manejo de las pesquerias de altamar y de arrastre basados en el enfoque de ecosistemas y el principio precautorio con especial atenciln en la sobrepesca y pesca ilegal. 3. Establecer protocolos internacionales juridicamente vinculantes para la extracciln de petrileo y gas que incluyan IAreas intocables de no extracciln.