Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera Ayala
Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN
Jacqueline Rivera is a civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator at the Hazards Monitoring Center of the General Directorate of the Environmental Observatory (DOA) at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN). Prior to her current role, she worked there as an impact-based forecast specialist and has previous experience working in early flood warning monitoring.
She holds a degree in civil engineering from the National University of El Salvador and a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Development from the University of Seoul, South Korea. She received a dissertation award for the latter in recognition of her work on early warning systems for flood forecasts in El Salvador. Rivera was also involved in the development and implementation of the WRN (Weather Ready Nation) project in El Salvador and Guatemala, where she worked on landslide hazard monitoring. Her interests include research and its applications into natural hazards, the use of geographical information systems for better interpretation and communication of information from different sources and types on issues of natural and environmental threats, territorial, regional and urban planning and the applied topics of geomorphology.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Jerome Aucan
Head of the Pacific Community Center for Ocean Science, The Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji/New Caledonia
Claudia C. Baron-Aguilar
Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community
Silvia Chacon-Barrantes
Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Simone Pennafirme
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera Ayala
Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN
Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Raul Salazar
Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama
Ria Sen
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Sebastian Unger
Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
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