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Mercedes SANTOS

national director of marine protected areas, Argentina

Direccion Nacional de Areas Marinas Protegidas

Administración de Parques Nacionales

Work Location

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Casa Central - Carlos Pellegrini 657 (C1009ABM)
1059 Buenos Aires
Argentina

Nationality

Argentina

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Profile URL

https://oceanexpert.org/expert/MSantos

Highest Degree

Phd

Job Type

Research
Decision Making & Policy

Subject Area

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Policy, Law, Economics, Management

Activities

Current position: National Director of Marine Protected Areas. National Park Administration.

Chief officer for the SCAR Scientific Research Program Integrated Science for Integrated Science to Support Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation (Ant-ICON) https://www.scar.org/science/ant-icon/home/

From 1.2011 to 7. 2020: Director of the Ecosystem Monitoring Program-Penguins, Instituto Antártico Argentino.

From 2012 to 2020 co lider of a bionational (Argentina-Chile) MPA proposal for the western antarctic peninsula (Domain 1) CCAMLR

Sea regions of study

South Atlantic Ocean
Southern Ocean

Skills

proactive, passionate about conservation and rational use of marine resources

Working language(s)

spanish /english

Citation(s)

ResearchGate

Created: 2021-08-25 | Last Updated: 2021-08-25