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Ernesto F Weil
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Born In Caracas, Venezuela. Master from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1980. I worked as a researcher and the Director of the Dos Mosquises Marine Station in Los Roques, Venezuela from 1980-85, moved to the Smithsonian (STRI) in Panama to work as a research assistant to Dr. JBC Jackson and then, to the Department of Zoology, University of Texas in Austin where I did my Ph.D. Got my Doctorate in 1992 and a Postdoc with Dr. Alina Szmant at RSMAS, University of Miami until 1995. I was hired as an Assistant professor In the Department of Marine Sciences (DMS-UPR), University of Puerto Rico in July, 2006. Currently a Full Professor and Researcher at the DMS-UPR. Worked with general coral reef ecology, reproductive biology and evolution in Puerto Rico, and with coral reef diseases, their etiology, drivers, epizootic and impact all over the Caribbean and a few localities in the Indo-Pacific for the past 20 years.
Conservation Biology Ecology Epidemiology Evolutionary Studies Marine Biology Taxonomy