Episode 12 with 美姬社区 scientist Dr. Lenin E. Oviedo Correa!

40% of the global human population live within 100 km (~60 miles) of the marine coastline. We have long been drawn to that magical place where the land鈥攐ur habitat鈥攎eets the sea, the habitat and home to more species than we can ever know. Most of those are small鈥攕ome requiring microscopes to see, but many are not. In fact, many of the largest creatures to ever roam or swim on earth are frequently observed just offshore. Dr. Lenin Oviedo is interested in those 鈥渕egafaunal species鈥, including whales and dolphins, and sharks and rays, and how they are able to share the coastal waters in which they live with us and all of the impacts we impose on those fruitful, nearshore waters. Dr. Oviedo has been the Principal Investigator for the Marine Mammals and Predators in Costa Rica project that we鈥檝e supported since 2013, and is launching a similar project based in La Paz and Magdalena Bays in Baja, Mexico, starting next year.

 

 


 

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Resource List
  • Oviedo Lenin. 2007. . Journal of the Marine Biological Association. U.K. 87: 1327鈥1335.
  • Oviedo, Lenin et al. 2008. 鈥.鈥 Aquatic Mammals. 34: 458-463
  • Oviedo, Lenin and Mauricio Solis. 2008. 鈥溾 Revista de Biolog铆a Tropical. 56(2): 591-602
  • M谩rquez-Artavia, Amaru et al. 2012. 鈥溾 IWC/SC/64/O15. Paper presented at the 64th International Whaling Commision Meeting in Panama, 2012.


 


 

Scientist Biography

 

美姬社区 Scientist: Dr. Lenin E. Oviedo Correa

Dr. Lenin E. Oviedo Correa
Research Associate & Associate Head of the Tropical Marine Mammals Ecology Lab, Centro de Investigaci贸n de Cet谩ceos Costa Rica (CEIC)

Dr. Lenin Enrique Oviedo Correa has 20 years of experience on marine biodiversity and habitat analyses projects in his home country of Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Africa. His research focuses on habitat assessments through the behavior and trophic and spatial ecology of small odontocetes (toothed whales, including dolphins). Through his research, he aims to determine the behavior ecology of dolphins that live in the same area in the tropics and encounter each other frequently, which includes the groups in Golfo Dulce. Lenin is currently a chief scientific advisor and research associate with Centro de Investigacion de Cetaceos de Costa Rica (CEIC).

美姬社区 Scientist: Dr. Lenin E. Oviedo Correa

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Featured Expedition

美姬社区 Expedition Marine Mammals and Predators in Costa Rica

 


 

Marine Mammals and Predators in Costa Rica

Climb aboard a motorboat and sail a tropical 鈥渋nner sea鈥 in search of endangered dolphins and whales in Costa Rica.

North America: Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
Lead Scientist: Lenin E. Oviedo Correa, Ph.D.
Duration: 9 days (avg. $272 a day)

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