Rodrigo Beas.

 

beas@biology.ucsc.edu· 2882 Chesterfield dr. Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Work Experience

As of fall 2007

PhD Student – University of California at Santa Cruz.

Fall 2006 to Spring 2007

Research Scholar – Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, CA, USA.

Data base management for a trophic cascade project that aims to test the generality of trophic cascades in marine ecosystems and management of multispecies complexes.

Summer 2005 to summer 2007

Field technician - Baja Biocomplexity Project. Stanford University and UT Austin, USA.

Interdisciplinary Biocomplexity project that theorical modelates the anthropogenic effects of the fishing communities off the Baja California coast on the marine environment. Methodology development for data collection, Scuba Diving, social surveys and environmental education.

Summer 2003 to summer 2006

Research Assistant. UCSB and Fullerton University, CA, USA.

Collaboration on the population connectivity and management of coastal fishery species across the California – Mexico international Border. Three consecutive year sampling on Kellet’s whelks from Point Conception to Punta Eugenia. Scuba Diving, Writing proposals for permits and founding.

Spring 2005 winter 2005

Technician/Diver – The Eastern Pacific Consortium for Research on Global Change in coastal and Ocean Regions / CICESE. – Oceanographic instruments Installation and recovery. Kelp forest evaluation and invertebrate larvae collection

Fall 2002 to Spring 2005

Student – Marine Ecology Masters degree.- CICESE, Ensenada México.

Population dynamics of the purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) in the thershold between a kelp bed and an urchin barren. Master of science.

Spring 2002 to summer 2002

Biologist – Teaching and Projects Abroad England – Mexico. Majahuas Jalisco, Mexico.

Guide, teacher and sponsor of a group a English volunteers in The Olive Ridley turtle conservation matters managing projects like abundance, repopulation, hatch and hatchlings census, recollection and cleaning up federal beaches, at the research center in the twelve-kilometer stretch of beach

Winter 2002 to spring 2002

Biologist assistantship – Wild Life Connection – Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

Specialized tours to observe the bottle nose dolphin Tursiops truncatus which in turn, helped to obtain economical resources for scientific research and conservation of dolphins and whales.

Winter 2002

Research work assessor. Potable Water and Sewage Commission. Jalisco Government , México.

Activities based on professional work like data entry, results Tabulation and writing of the proposals about the main water problems within the studied communities surrounding the metropolitan zone of Guadalajara, coming up with improvements to this projects which help this populations with their water and environmental problems.

Spring, 2001 to fall 2001

         Temporary professional biologist/ Diver – Darling Marine Center, University of Maine. Walpole ME, USA.

Research work with larval settlement, recruitment, resilience and the commercial fishery management of the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis and the ecology and fishery sustainability of the American lobster Homerus americanus. Applying scientific diving, field sampling techniques, experimental laboratory procedures, projects design and construction, algal, fish and invertebrates’ identification.

Winter, 2001 to Spring 2001

            Biology Teacher- Federal Secondary “Jose Maria Luis Mora”. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Taught Ecology, Evolution, Cell Biology, and Wildlife Conservation courses. Lead 9 groups of 50 students each in classroom instruction, laboratory practices, and field research. Encouraged environmental awareness through local habitat restoration projects and recycling programs.

Fall, 2000 to Spring 2001

            Research assistance – Marine Ecosystems and aquiculture laboratory, University of Guadalajara. Mexico.

Involved in a diversity and distribution of the mollusk in the coast of Jalisco and Colima Mexico. SCUBA diving sampling the long of the coast of these two Mexican states, and working in the taxonomy and management of the collection.

Summer, 2000

            Intern – Idaho Panhandle National Forest. Cour D’Alene, ID. USA.

International Internship program in a fisheries work at the Fernan Ranger Station Monitoring the effects of grazing on riparian habitats including locating monitoring sites, conducting channel cross-sections, fish habitat surveys, and riparian plant survey. Record data on forms, in out data into computer files, and generate in a conservation and management fisheries project at Tepee Creek. This Survey methods include electro shocking, hand netting, spawning surveys, snorkeling.

Fall, 1999 to Summer 2000

Biological Technician – Marine ecosystems and aquiculture Laboratory, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Involved in ongoing research on the Biometrics, Scuba diving Samplings and statistics of a sea cucumber Isoctichopus fuscus, a fish Huachinango lutjanus peru and an octopus, Octopus Hubbsorum.

 

 

 

Fall, 1998 to spring 1999

            Research assistance- Ecology Laboratory, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Collaborated with a mycorrizal project in arid enviromets with Pitayo Stenocereus spp. counting spores and tasting them in different kinds of soils

Fall, 1997 to summer 1998

            Volunteer –“ La perseverancia” an auto sustentable Farm., Tapalpa , Jalisco, México.

Worked in an aquiculture, agricultural and social activities like cultivate strawberries, corn and in the aquiculture was basically the management and genetics of the rainbow trout Onconrhynchus mykiss.

Summer,1997 to fall 1997

Volunteer - Sea Turtle Protection National Program. Universidad de Guadalajara. Majahuas Island Jalisco, México. Quelonids protection related activities on the sea shelf of Jalisco. Patrolling and assistance to the turtles during the spawning, recruitment and liberation of the baby turtles.

Other Involvements

Summer, 2004

Oxygen provider course for Diving accidents, DAN – CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico.

Summer, 2004

First journey about medicine and security on SCUBA diving. CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico.

Fall, 2003

International workshop on restoration of Macrocystis pyrifera (giant kelp) forest. Considerations, impacts and users of marine algal ecosystems. CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico.

Spring, 2002

Geographic information systems. Forest Department, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Winter 2001

Marine Animals Eco-physiology course. Ecology Department and Grad School of Biological Sciences, University of Guadalajara. Mexico.

Winter 2001

Update course for secondary teachers. Biology Academy. SEP (Public Education Secretary), Mexico.

Fall 2000

Communities Ecology Course. Ecology Department. University of Guadalajara. Mexico.

Summer 2000

Fish Management and Habitat description, Fernan Ranger Station. ID, USA.

Spring, 2000

Eco-tourism and Ecology of a tropical coast line. Marine Ecosystems Laboratory, University of Guadalajara.

Fall, 1999

Second International Student Workshop on the environment. Agrarian University of Habana. La Habana, Cuba.

Spring, 1999

Toxic and noxious phytoplankton course, Ecology Department, University of Guadalajara. Mexico.

Fall, 1998

            Management and Fishing Arts Techniques course. Aquiculture department, University of Guadalajara.

Education

·       1984 to 1990 Elementary school at Urbana 130 “Luis Pérez Verdía”

·       1990 to 1993 Secondary school at Tecnica 1 “Lic. José Vasconcelos”

·       1993 to 1996 High school at Preparatoria 2.

·       1996 to 2000 Biology at University of Guadalajara.

·       2002 to 2005 Marine Ecology Masters Degree. CICESE.

Awards

·       01/09/1998 – 30/10/1998 SAGARPA, Bachelors degree student support.

·       01/09/2002 – 30/08/2004 CONACYT, Masters of Science Scholarship.

·      01/10/2004 – 30/12/2004 CICESE, Ecology department.

Skills

·       IBM-PC and Macintosh software: office, statistica, JMP, Map info, mat lab.

·       Microscope Experience: Identifying micro mollusk, counting spores, plankton samples, urchin larvae from astro turfs and suction sampling.

·       Read, speak and write fluently in English and Spanish.

·       Diving Certification: Open water (*), 1992. Advanced (**), 1996. Dive master (***), 1997. By the Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatiques (CMAS). Over 450 dives.

·       From EAN 21 to EAN50 NITOX 2002 diver by SSI (Scuba School International)

·       American Association of Underwater Scientist, AAUS Diver. Reciprocity from Stanford, UCSB, Fullerton and Maine.

·       CPR and First Aids courses at the Mexican Red Cross, one for each year since 1997.

·       DAN Oxygen Administration 2001, 2004, 2006.

·       Operation, launching and recovering of 20-foot Outboard and smaller vessels.

·       GPS /Chart Navigation.

• Implementation of experiments in Flowing seawater laboratories.
• Power and Hand Tool Proficient.

 

Publications

 

                   

                  E. Ríos-Jara, M. pérez-peña, R. Beas-Luna (2001). Gastropods and Bivalves of commercial interest from the continental shelf of Jalisco and Colima, México. Tropical Biology 49(3):785-789

                  G. Hernández, R. Beas-Luna (1998). Manual de Biología para prácticas de Laboratorio. SEMS Universidad De Guadalajara. pp 235. Guadalajara, México.