ABOUT ME
​I am a marine scientist and software developer interested in developing digital products that advance ecological and biogeochemical research of marine ecosystems and contribute to educating societies about environmental management and sustainability. My main interest is to cover the bridge gap between technology, science, community, and businesses.
MY RESEARCH
From Theory to Reality
A quantitative study of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations over the past 25 years in key great barrier reef catchments
2020
Building upon data provided by the Queensland Government, this study explores changes in the concentration's distribution of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, total nitrogen, reactive phosphorus, total phosphorus and ammonia over 25 years in key Great Barrier Reef catchments. I analysed how streams, environmental conditions, and agricultural activities in the area can explain variations in the abundance of nutrients over time.
Southern right whale habitat modelling to inform conservation management and mitigation of entanglement in Southern Australia
2021
This is a population growth model of the Southern right whale Eubalaena australis over 50 years to inform conservation management and mitigation of entanglement in Southern Australia. I employed a stage-structured model and sensitivity analyses, developed on R software, to understand the interactive effects of climate change and bycatch on whale population trends. Considering natural survival probabilities, fecundities, stage abundances, and harvest mortality rates as baseline parameters for calves, juveniles, and breeding females.
Analysing the size of Eastern Australian Humpback whales in relation to location and southern migration of pods
2021
This study explores how the increased commercial whale-watching industry affects the ecological cycle of the Australian Humpback whales that come to shore to breed and nurse their calves. Based on aerial data taken along the Queensland coast, I elaborated a statistical model to assess if the presence of tourist vessels influences the location of pods: off-shore or in-shore, and the season when pods migrate: autumn or winter. I used RStudio to compute my two-way ANOVA test and explanatory graphs.
Investigating areas with suitable soil for recessional agriculture in Senegal
2021
An exploration of soils with suitable conditions for recessional agriculture and regions subject to flooding in the extreme north of Senegal. I elaborated on geographical maps to show the most profitable location for constructing a dam along a river in Senegal to retain water for agricultural activities.
CERTIFICATES
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IMPACTS ON FISHERIES
This course from the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) covered the causes of ocean acidification, the impacts of ocean acidification on marine life, the economic impacts of ocean acidification on fisheries, and possible solutions to reduce it.
January 31, 2022
INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE APPS SCRIPT
March 29, 2022
This course from the Collins School of Data covered building Apps Script blocks with operators, conditionals, functions, arrays, objects, and loops to automate tools and write codes. Working with data from sheets to run programs.
GETTING STARTED WITH THE GEODATABASE
April 19, 2021
This course from Esri Academy covered how to use geographic information and spatial data to create different types of maps and delimit investigation areas, organizing GIS data with geodatabase components.
PYTHON 3 MASTER COURSE
October 20, 2022
This course from Codecademy covered how to use Python 3 to manipulate information and build control flow, lists, loops, functions, strings, modules, dictionaries, classes, and work with files in python. I completed 12 individual projects.
GETTING STARTED WITH SPATIAL ANALYSIS
This course from Esri Academy covered how spatial analysis is useful for solving geographic questions. Applying the spatial analysis workflow to navigate ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, or ArcGIS Online to solve spatial problems.
May 4, 2022
INTRO TO FLUID MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS
This course from Udemy covered the properties of fluids: pressure, density, the ideal gas law, viscosity, absolute and gauge pressure, hydrostatic forces on plane and curved surfaces, and buoyancy of floating bodies.
January 19, 2022
FELLOWSHIPS
OCEAN WATCHERS PROJECT
Fellowship offered by Sustainable Ocean Alliance and the U.S. Embassy in Peru, for instructing young Peruvian leaders in correct response capacity against oil spills. A month of theoretical and practical training to provide early career scientists with the necessary foundations to perform correct environmental assessment of polluted marine ecosystems and create spaces for dialogue with fishers, environmental and government entities for ocean conservation.
May 2022
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Open Science Conference on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) & Second International Conference on the Humboldt Current System
Pinatelli V., Brown C., Southern right whale Eubalaena australis habitat modelling to inform conservation management and mitigation of entanglement in Southern Australia
Sep 19-23, 2022
