Facundo Alvarez

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Activities performed: - Photo coverage. - Development and execution of educational campaigns. - Participation in educational campaigns. - Capture and management of condors.

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Tasks and acquired skills: - Photo coverage. - Development and execution of educational campaigns. - Rescue, capture and management of wild condors. - Observation and monitoring of the condor in field. - Behavioral monitoring in the field. - Feeding condors. - Management of temporal residence-condor.

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Activities performed: - Daily monitoring of marine fauna (Cetaceans and Pinnipeds). - Monitoring of terrestrial fauna (Mammals and Birds). - Identification of strategic points for the placement of traps cameras and documented monitoring of the local fauna. - Identification of footprints of terrestrial mammals. - Shelters maintenance tasks.

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Activities performed: - Training and learning of the "Patagonian technique of watching cetaceans" from different types of boats. - Training for the recognition and identification of marine mammals from vessels.

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Tasks and acquired skills: - Extraction of blood and weight control on the arrival of P. papua and P. adeliae. - Coastal census of marine mammals (M. leonina, O. flavescens, L. weddellii, L. carcinophagus, H. leptonyx). - Monitoring of marine physico-chemical variables: CTD sensor, aquatic luximeters, passive phytotoxin samplers, ice disturbance markers, PAR and RUV sensors. - Sampling and dissection of N. concina and L. eliptica. - Potter Cove: Collection of seawater per column (Niskin bottle) for measurement of photosynthetic pigments and MPS at different depths. - Dragging of nets at different depths for phytoplankton and zooplankton sampling. Fish collection with nets. - Fourcade Glacier: Meteorological station control and data extraction. Measurement of mass balance stakes (MBS). - Coastal geology: Sediment collection using fixed underwater traps and leofilization of samples.

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Disciplines and subjects: - Extructura and population dynamics, - Ecology of natural communities, - Geoprocessing applied to ecology, - Introduction to program R, - Scientific writing in research oriented to ecology, - Morphological and functional diversity of communities, - Ecology of terrestrial environments, - Experimental design in ecological studies, - Modeling of species distribution, - Theoretical ecology and macroecology, - Ethology, - Statistics applied to ecological studies, - Multivariate statistics for ecological data, - Field ecology, -Management and sustainable development in Amazonian ecosystems, - Assessment of the physical integrity of aquatic environments, - Spatial statistics in ecology, - Use of non-linear models in ecology.

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Tasks and acquired skills: 1 - Collection and sorting of biological material: Application of different methods of collection to achieve the objectives proposed in the design and preparation of the of specimens for identification. 2 - Morphometric measurement of the collected material: Measurement of dimensions and weights of individuals collected. 3 - Data analysis: Performance of statistical analyzes that help to understand ecological processes in the study area. 4 - Delimitation of the areas of influence: Through geotechnological tools different spatial scales, such as circular collection or lateral buffer to the drainage network, for quantification of the components of the in the microbasins of the streams sampled. 5 - Database formation: Refers to the meeting of any document such as shape's, raster's and satellite images, to delimit the drainage, of the hydrographic basins of the respective sampled sites and also for characterization of the uses and land cover of the project area. 6 - Digital image processing: This is the treatment of images of information for the extraction of reliable landscape information, involving such as: atmospheric correction, mosaic creation, segmentation, classification supervised object-oriented and validation. 7 - Reporting: Compilation of analyzes and results, making it possible to understand the response of the ichthyofauna to the impacts generated by the company and possible mitigating measures.