Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez
Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy
jc_villasenor@miami.edu
Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and a Core Faculty member at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing. He applies modern data science tools to study the human dimensions of marine conservation and environmental change. His research leverages extensive vessel-tracking and georeferenced fisheries data to explore the costs and benefits of Marine Protected Areas and other area-based conservation measures, focusing on their magnitude and distribution.
Paul Sikkel
Research Professor in the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology
pcs75@earth.miami.edu
Paul Sikkel is a Research Professor in the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology. His research is rooted in field studies in marine ecology, particularly fish behavior, and currently focuses on the role and importance of “cryptofauna”, particularly parasites. His work occurs in both the tropical western Atlantic and Indo Pacific, including The Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and Micronesia and leverages the “natural experiments” created my marine protected and adjacent fished areas to study effects of human disturbance on host-parasite interactions and associated symbioses such as cleaning behavior. He enables members of local communities through his research and promotes the engagement of artists in science communication.
