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1. GENERAL INFO NAME: Sandra Mansilla Pompa AGE: 31 DATE OF BIRTH: November 30th 1978 NATIONALITY: Mexican COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: Mexico CIVIL STATE: Single ADDRESS: Av. San Jerónimo 62‐14. San Ángel, Coyoacán. 01090 Mexico, D. F. PHONE: Lab. (+525)6229004 Mobile. (+521)5554521930 EMAIL: [email protected]/[email protected] 2. ACADEMIC TRAINING BACHELORS DEGREE INSTITUTION: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) SCHOOL/FACULTY: Science Faculty STATE: Mexico City COUNTRY: Mexico STUDY PERIOD: 1999‐2003 AVERAGE: 8.54 ADVISOR’S NAME: Ms. María de Jesús Guadalupe Vázquez Cuevas THESIS TITLE: The skull of the common dolphin DEGREE OBTAINED: July 7th 2004 SOCIAL SERVICE I did my social service in the Chiapas Natural History Institute from November 2002 through April 2003 support project "breaking the richness of birds and susceptible species selection of monitoring in the Northwest in the State of Chiapas area". This project supported with outputs to the field at several locations within the State, entering records in Biótica v. 4.0, updating data, and maintenance of the ornithological collection Institute bases. MASTERS DEGREE INSTITUTION: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) SCHOOL/FACULTY: Science Faculty STATE: Mexico City COUNTRY: Mexico STUDY PERIOD: 2004‐2007 AVERAGE: 9.44 ADVISOR’S NAME: Dr. Luis Medrano González THESIS TITLE: Distribution and abundance of genera Pygmy and Steno flags and adjacent waters Bay DEGREE OBTAINED: February 8, 20073. LANGUAGES English DOMAIN LEVEL: 100 % Portuguese DOMAIN LEVEL: 80 % French DOMAIN LEVEL: 70 % 4. COURSES Diploma in illustration in science and natural history DATE: October 30, 2002 DURATION: 4 months HOSTED by: Oyarzábal Aldi STATE: Mexico City COUNTRY: Mexico ACCREDITATION (record, recognition, etc.): certificate 7th European Seminar on marine Mammals: Biology and Conservation DATE: September 15‐19 2008 DURATION: 5 days HOSTED by: Peter g. H. Evans and j. a. Raga (Menendez Pelayo International University, Valencia, Spain) STATE: Valencia COUNTRY: Spain TYPE of accreditation (record, recognition, etc.): certificate and diploma 5. VOLUNTEER WORK I volunteered with the Museum of Zoology of the Faculty of Sciences (2000‐2005) in field cour ses,teaching and research, taxidermy, etc. I helped with the academic evaluation of the Science Faculty’s academic staff I also helped in gathering data for a physical anthropology research project leadered by Josefina Mansilla PhD. I also did some lab reseatch at the Medicine Faculty at UNAM in a biochemical project of parasitic fungi under the supervision of Haydee Torres PhD. Since 2002 I helped in several research field seasons and with the maintenance and creation of databases both of the osteological and photographic collection of marine mammals inside of the Group of Mastozoología Marina of the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, where I did my undergraduate and master's degree thesis. Along with my fellow co‐worker Sandra Smith Aguilar we gave the lecture "Animal communication" to students in first grade of elementary at the Atid school in Mexico City in November 2005. Gave for 3 years the class Bioconservación along with Dr. Rodrigo Medellín and Dr. Gerardo Ceballos in the sciences postgraduate program at UNAM. Collaborates with the spanish version of National Geographic magazine with the translation of texts and as content advisor in several articles. Working with Michael Fishbach and EcoInteractions in an international conservation proposal dealing with blue whales in the Gulf of California. Gave the lecture "Sustainable economy" for students of 2 ° and 4 ° semesters of the Economy Faculty at the National Polytechnic Institute in December 2009.
‐ Been interviewed once for the journal REFORMA and once for the TVC channel regarding biodiversity issues. 6. COLLABORATIONS Worked in the SPLASH (Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance, and status of Humpbacks [1]), international project in 2005 in the Bahía de Banderas (Nayarit, Jalisco, Mexico) and in 2006 in the Revillagigedo Islands (Colima, Mexico) both in field work as enclosure. Organised in February 2007, along with the Biól. Ma. José Villanueva and at the request of Dr. Rodrigo
Medellín, a whale‐watching trip to the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology in the
Bahía de Banderas (Nayarit‐Jalisco, Mexico). Actively participates with the National Evaluation Center (CENEVAL) in Mexico City with several tests. Helped in the Lancaster biology field trip for two years now in Punta de Mita, Nayarit (March 2009 and January 2010). Co‐founder and responsable of the contents of EcoTips (www.ecotips.com.mx) Published in 2009 two pictures in the book "Naturaleza Mexicana" edited by G. Ceballos and collaborators and TELMEX. Colaborates with Michael Fishbach and EcoInteractions in an internacional proposal on conservation in the Gula of California. Along with Gerardo Ceballos PhD and Rodrigo Medellín PhD gave the seminar “Bioconservación” for three semestres in the Postgraduate Programme Posgrado de Ciencias Biológicas at UNAM. Invited on October 1st to assess Strategic Innovative Projects (Proyectos Innovadores Estratégicos; PIEs) of the 2010 Call for proposals by the Fondo de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (FANP) and Fondo Mexicano Para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (FMCN). 7. INTERVIEWS (October 2009) for the supplement UNIVERSITARIOS of the REFORMA newspaper for my academic trend and colaboration with the Society For Conservation Biology (SCB). (August 2010) for the “El Universal” newspaper on the launching of EcoTips. 8. GRANTED SCHOLARSHIPS/SUPPORTS Supported by CONACyT (# 189383) and a DGEP (General Direction of Postgratuate Studies) scholarship since July 2004. CONACyT (#165061) granted me the doctoral scholarship. CSI (Cetacean Society International) have granted me thrice for the development of my doctoral thesis and to attend the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of marine Mammals. I got a full scholarship from the UIMP (Menendez Pelayo International University) to attend the course 7th
European Seminar on marine Mammals: Biology and Conservation in Valencia Spain.
For two years my doctoral project was supported by DEGAPA (UNAM) ‐ PAPIIT IN226108. I’ve been granted twice the Student Travel Grant by the Society for Marine Mammalogy to assist the 17th and 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. ‐ I’ve been granted several travel and internship grants from the Postgraduate Programme at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
9. MEMBER OF July 2005date ‐ Society for Marine Mammalogy December 2005 the date ‐ Mexican society on marine mammal survey (SOMMEMA) March 2007 to the date ‐ fellow of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) January 2008 to date ‐ Member of the American Society of Mammalogists September 2008 to the date ‐ Member of the American Cetacean Society July 2009‐ Member of the elected Board of Directors as Director of communications of the section America Austral and Neotropical (ANA) of the SCB. 10. CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
November 2004. Assistance to the 3rd . Humpbacked whale in the Bahía de Banderas Symposium held at
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.
December 2005 ‐ participation in the 16th Biennial Conference on marine mammal (sixteenth Biennal on
the Biology of marine Mammals) held in San Diego, California by the Society of Marine Mammalogy.At that
Congress presented the poster entitled "Geographic variation in skull morphology of Delphinus delphis and
D. capensis in the tropical eastern Pacific".
November 2006. Participation in the first international meeting on the study of aquatic mammals SOMEMMA‐SOLAMAC in Mérida, Yucatán (organized by the Mexican society on the study of the marine mammal); with the oral presentation of the work "geographical variation in the cranial morphometrics of Delphinus delphis and D. capensis in the Tropical Eastern Pacific".
December 2007.Presentation of theworks: Habitat use, residence patterns and population structure for the
genuses and Steno Kogia in Bahía de Banderas, Mexico in the category of poster and global patterns in
marine mammal distributions: hotspots, coldspots, and the implications for conservation as oral presentation, both in the seventeenth biennial Conference marine mammal organized by the Society of Marine Mammalogy held in Cape Town, South Africa from 29 to December 4.
July 2009. Oral presentation of the work global patterns in marine mammals: implications for conservation in Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Beijing, China; 11 to July 16.
August 2009. Oral presentation of the work global patterns in marine mammals: macroecology and its
implications for conservation in 10 th International Mammalogical Congress guest at the Symposium
"GLOBAL PATTERNS OF MAMMAL SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: AN OVERVIEW" organized by Gerardo Ceballos,
Pablo Ortega and Richard Ojeda. The Congress took over from 9 to 14 August in Mendoza, Argentina.
October 2009. Oral presentation of the work Global patterns of marine mammals: implications for conservation at the 18° Biennial Conference on the Biology of marine mammals organized by the Society of
Marine Mammalogy in Quebec, Canadá, October 11 to 16th.
‐June 2010. Gave the conference Global Patterns of Marine Mammal Distribution: Implications for
Conservation at the Environmental Research Division in NOAA’s Pacific Grove building (during a short research internship there). 10. PUBLICATIONS Scientific ‐ Ceballos, G., S. Pompa, E. Espinoza y A. García. 2010. Extralimital Distribution of Galapagos (Zalophus wollebaeki) and Northern (Eumetopias jubatus) Sea Lions in Mexico. Aquatic Mammals 36(2):188‐194. ‐ Pompa S., M. J. Vázquez y L. Medrano. Distancia geográfica y variación craneométrica de Delphinus spp. en el Pacífico Oriental tropical; en 60 Años de la Colección Nacional de Mamíferos del Instituto de Biología, UNAM. 2009. Instituto de Biología, UNAM. p. 109‐122.
Other magazines
‐ “Seres Abisales”; OTREDAD, Year 1 No. 1. (http://revistaotredad.com/)
‐ “Qué son los servicios ambientales” in colaboration withL. Martínez y C. Equihua. ¿Cómo Ves? Year
12, No. 144, p. 30.
I’m currently working on my PhD Project at the Ecology Institute at UNAM Ander the supervisión of Gerardo
Ceballos PhD from which we soon expect the publication of the manuscript Global patterns in marine
mammal distributions: hotspots, coldspots, and the implications for conservationAlso on review is the
manuscript Modeling abundance and dispersal of two pelagic cetaceans (Steno bredanensis and Kogia sima)
establishing on coastal environments of the Eastern North Pacific (Bahía de Banderas, México).
