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Verena Häussermann
Summary
Vreni Häussermann is the scientific director of the Huinay Scientific Field Station located in the Comau Fjord in Chilean Patagonia. She is in charge of promoting and carrying out multi-disciplinary research that is needed to facilitate conservation and sustainable resource management in this region. She is dedicated to baseline research projects such as species inventories and studies of patterns in biological diversity through space and time. She was the organizer and main editor of the book Marine Benthic Fauna of Chilean Patagonia, the first marine field guide for multiple groups of organisms in the fjord region. Through her work for the Huinay Foundation she is active in counselling governmental and non-governmental organisations on conservation and proper marine resource management and brings research results not only to the scientific community, but also to decision makers, industry representatives, fishermen and the broader public. In 2006, her team developed and submitted a proposal for a marine protected area (MPA) in two fjords with unique cold-water coral banks. In 2017, they are presenting their proposal for a network of MPAs for Chilean Patagonia to the Chilean govermment. She has contributed to international initiatives such as the Census of Marine Life, the Discover Life program, Mission Blue and Google Ocean.
Conservation Biology Ecosystem Science Marine Biology Paleontology Toxicology