Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Climatology, Meteorology
Research Support Services
Activities
He has been Professor/Researcher at the Marine Sciences and Maritime Engineering Department from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador (www.espol.edu.ec), since 1989. Since 2017 He is the Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office, of the World Climate Research Program. For six Years he was the Director of the Institute of Science and Technological Research at ESPOL (www.cicyt.espol.edu.ec), where he was responsible of the overall research policy of the University. And He has worked in several private and public positions in Ecuador.
He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ecuador since 1997, he is also a member of the Committee for the Regional Study of El Niño Phenomenon (ERFEN), since 1996. And was a member of the consulting Committee for Latin America of the American Geophysical Union between 1994 and 1996
He was the Director of the International Research Center on El Niño (CIIFEN) since 2002 (until June 30th 2005) (www.ciifen-int.org). CIIFEN is an international organization which has as members of its International Board the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the governments of Ecuador and Spain, the Inter Governmental Oceanic Commission among others.
Sea regions of study
South Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
