Elva Escobar Briones
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Dr. Elva Escobar is a full time professor in oceanography at Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM.
Her knowledge creation activities have contributed to deep-sea biodiversity conservation and sustainable use through scientific research on board UNAM’s research vessels and publications in collaboration with national and international institutions. These results have been used to define policies as well as to design conservation networks and programs in the deep ocean.
Escobar is also heavily involved in capacity building programs in oceanography. She is a lead member of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) and a Member of the Executive Planning Group of the UN Decade.
CEO and founder, The Ocean Data Alliance and Pre-Vetted Digital Transformation Crisis Consultant, UNDP
Ocean Physical Modelling Program Manager, ARGANS France, and Senior Earth Observation Scientist, ICM-CSIC
Officer in Charge/Head of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, Indian Ocean Commission
Head of Department Marine Zoology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Oceanic Volcanism – Research Division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Professor in Oceanography, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML) UNAM
Head of Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Project Manager of “FACE-IT” at the Department of Marine Botany, University of Bremen, Germany
Director of State Key Lab. of Marine Pollution, Chair Professor of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong
Clara Manno, Pelagic Marine Ecologist at BAS and co chair, SCAR Plastic in the Polar Environments Working Group
Chair, PAME, the Arctic Council’s work on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment
Research Scientist, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt
Head of “Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development”, BMBF
Science Director, REV Ocean, and Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University & Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Chair, United Nations Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection