Previous Fora / 2013
MILOSLAVICH, Patricia
Joint Coordinator, Census of Marine Life Caribbean Regional Committee
Patricia Miloslavich graduated in Biology at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela and holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada. She is currently a Senior Professor at the Department of Environmental Studies, Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, where she is in charge of the Marine Biology Laboratory and teaches Marine Biology, Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates, Principles of Biology, and Advanced Topics in Invertebrate Reproduction. She is a National Researcher SNI III and is responsible for the coordination of the Census of Marine Life Program in the Caribbean region and the Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA) project for South America. Her research focuses on reproduction of marine invertebrates, especially gastropod mollusks, and on seagrass mollusk assemblages, being the Curator of the Mollusk Collection of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales at the Universidad Simón Bolívar. She is author of more than 30 publications in scientific journals and editor of the book Caribbean Marine Biodiversity: the known and the unknown.