Carla Mere Roncal, Phd Email & Phone Number

United States

* Oversee conservation technology grants, including budget management and grant reporting.* Write proposals for funding to support educational, infrastructure, and research efforts in the Andes-Amazon.* Develop partnerships with stakeholders involved in conservation technology projects.

Gainesville, Florida Area

* Crafted presentations to communicate research findings to academic audiences in symposiums and seminars. * Gathered, systematized, and analyzed acoustic and camera trap data collected in lowland tropical forest of southeastern Peru.* Evaluated and handled large sets of citizen science (eBird) and remote sensing data to model bird distribution throughout the Neotropics using R language.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

* Collaborated in the design and implementation of multi-stakeholder workshops in the Peruvian Amazon through participatory mapping exercises to identify the different perspectives, priorities and concerns related to reducing the impacts of infrastructure development and improvement of environmental governance in the Amazon.* Systematized and analyzed complex quantitative and qualitative data from participatory mapping exercises conducted in four different Amazonian regions and published the results in a peer-review scientific journal.* Carried out a drone capacity-building workshop on the use of drones for monitoring and governance in the Peruvian Amazon.* Organized and chaired meetings for the GIA geospatial research group.* Developed and implemented surveys on the use and success of geospatial technologies for monitoring and evaluation of governance and infrastructure.

Madre De Dios, Peru

* Spearheaded the research projects for Los Amigos Biological Station (LA) and the Los Amigos Bird Observatory (LABO) program.* Assessed research proposals, supervised, and supported ACCA scholars in their research projects for the LA program.* Supervised the LABO Fellowship Program, including selecting grantees with a passion for ornithological research and monitoring their projects.* Helped shape the LABO program to develop a key site for birdwatching, ornithological research, and avian conservation in the southwestern Amazon.* Systematized and analyzed data from the terrestrial mammal monitoring program, the terrestrial bird species of the family Tinamidae, and all science projects related to the dung beetle community.* Created and managed social media accounts to promote science and conservation outreach for LA and LABO programs.

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

* Taught Environmental Justice course to undergraduate students.* Examined historical and contemporary socioeconomic conditions, and the implications that environmental degradation has on low-income communities, people of color, and indigenous people

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Taught Introductory Biology I and II courses to undergraduate students.

Cusco, Peru

* Researched, supervised, and monitored the behavior, impacts of hunting, climate change and deforestation to the population of Gray Woolly Monkeys in montane forests inside and around Manu National Park.* Supervised and elaborated a 15km trail for the sample strip of land used to monitor Woolly Monkeys; monitor behavior within the built transect.* Conducted and elaborated surveys with indigenous communities of three protected Andean valleys within Manu National Park and three valleys without official protection in the buffer zone and beyond the Manu National Park, about hunting pressure of Woolly Monkeys.* Developed a blog for Wayqecha Biological Station.* Promoted from Program Support Intern in the Washington DC office to Assistant Coordinator.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisted with grant proposal preparation and researched funding opportunities• Translated proposals and other documents from Spanish to English

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Created and conducted three new public demonstration programs on Arapaima, Yellow-spotted turtle and Spider Tortoise• Conducted informal and formal surveys with Zoo visitors regarding public programming• Assisted with development and implementation of special events; and developed monthly schedule of staff and volunteers to ensure that programs are delivered on schedule

Peru

• Examined causal effects of environmental stress through the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within bacterial communities.• Evaluated the structure and changes in the succession process induced by copper in two biofilm-associated bacterial communities in the mangroves of Tumbes, Peru.

Loreto, Peru

• Educated communities of the Yanayacu Pucate basin in Iquitos, Peru on issues in conservation, global warming, and how to better use natural resources in a sustainable way. • Sharpened field experience by recording and classifying related species, and writing reports of every step of the process, including the findings of the project. • Projects included: a census of Arapaima in the Cocha El Dorado area; gathering and re-nesting of Yellow-spotted turtle eggs in artificial beaches in the basin; mapping and recollecting with a non-invasive technique aguaje’s palms; and developing for and communicating to the local communities the 2011 quotas for yellow-spotted turtle and paiche (A. gigas).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Forest Resources And Conservation, Gpa, 4.0

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Science And Policy, Gpa, 3.86

Activities and Societies: Amazon WaSHRecipient of Sydney Byers Scholarship from the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) Master Thesis.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology, General

Scholarship Recipient, 2009, Field Seminar: “Exploring the Governance Dimensions of the Anchoveta Fishery in the Humboldt Ecosystem” –.