CURRICULUM
VITAE (summary) as of April 2005
Hugo
Geovanny
Romero-Saltos. Department of Biology, University of
Miami, 1301
Memorial Dr., Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA. Tel: 1-305-2846436, Fax:
1-305-2843039. E-mail
(click on link to send me an e-mail).
Personal
information
Date
and place of birth:
January 1974, Quito,
Ecuador. Citizenship: Ecuadorian.
Professional
positions
Instructor of Flora of
Ecuador (Mar. 2000–Aug. 2000).
Department of Geography and Ecotourism, Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Associate researcher (botanist) (Nov. 1999–Aug. 2000),
project "Libro Rojo de las Plantas
Endémicas del
Ecuador”, Department of Biology, Herbarium QCA, Pontificia Universidad
Católica del
Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Associate researcher
(plant ecologist) (
Jul.
1998–Sep. 1999),
international project "Non-timber forest plant products assessment in
northwestern Amazonia: Colombia, Ecuador and Perú"
(European Commision project INCO-DC,
DG 12–IC18 CT960038). Department of Biology, Herbarium QCA,
Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
Education
Ph.D. candidate,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. Nov. 2004.
M.S. in Biology,
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. Dec. 2003. Thesis:
Effect
of
rainfall exclusion on
soil water movement and depth of water uptake by Amazonian trees.
Licenciado
en
Ciencias
Biológicas (B.S.
in Biology), Pontificia Universidad
Católica
del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. Mar. 1999. Thesis: Diversidad,
análisis
estructural y aspectos florísticos relevantes de las lianas en una
parcela de
bosque muy húmedo pre-montano, Amazonía
ecuatoriana.
Engineering on
Natural Resources Management
(distance learning,
first year completed), Escuela de Ciencias
Ambientales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Quito, Ecuador.
Oct.
1998–Dec. 1999.
Pre-engineering
year, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, Escuela
Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. Oct. 1991–Jul. 1992.
Duivenvoorden J. F., Duque
A. J., Cavelier J., García
A., Grández C., Macía
M. J., Romero-Saltos H., Sánchez
M., and Valencia R. (In press) Density
and
diversity of plants in relation to soil nutrient reserves in
well-drained
upland forests in the north-western Amazon Basin. In: Symposium on plant diversity and complexity
patterns: local, regional and global
dimensions (I. Friis and H. Balslev,
eds.). Copenhagen May 25–28, 2003.
Macía M. J., Romero-Saltos
H., and Valencia R.
(2001) Patrones de uso en un bosque primario de la Amazonía
ecuatoriana:
comparación entre dos comunidades Huaorani.
In:
Evaluación de Recursos Vegetales no maderables en la Amazonía noroccidental (J. F. Duivenvoorden,
H. Balslev, J. Cavelier,
C.
Grández, H. Tuomisto,
and R. Valencia, eds.),
pp.
225–249. IBED, Universiteit
van Amsterdam,
Amsterdam. ISBN: 90-76894-02-7.
Romero-Saltos H., Valencia
R., and Macía
M. J. (2001)
Patrones
de
diversidad, distribución y rareza de plantas leñosas en el Parque
Nacional Yasuní y la Reserva Étnica Huaorani,
Amazonía ecuatoriana. In: Evaluación de recursos vegetales no
maderables en la
Amazonía noroccidental (J. F. Duivenvoorden,
H. Balslev, J. Cavelier,
C.
Grández, H. Tuomisto,
and R. Valencia, eds.),
pp.
131–162. IBED, Universiteit
van Amsterdam, Amsterdam. ISBN: 90-76894-02-7.
Valencia R., Pitman
N., León-Yánez S., and Jørgensen P.M.
(editors) (2000) Libro rojo de las plantas
endémicas
del Ecuador. Herbario QCA, Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. ISBN: 9978-77-090-9. I was one of 42 contributing authors.
Recent
synergistic activities/work
Reviewer
for American
Journal of Botany.
Teaching
assistant for
General Biology laboratory and lecture. University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA.
Graduate
student
facilitator for community outreach program “Research in Ecology”
directed
towards middle-school kids and science teachers. University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA.
Previous
advisors
M.S.: Dr. Leonel da
S. L. Sternberg, Department of Biology, University of Miami. Coral
Gables, USA.
B.S.: Dr.
Renato Valencia, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia
Universidad
Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.
Honors
and awards
Tropical
Biology Fellowship (Aug.
2005–Aug. 2006) from the
University of Miami to support Ph.D. research.
Doctoral Research Grant (summer
2004) from the Center for
Latin American Studies of the University of Miami to support Ph.D.
research.
Fulbright
scholar
(
Aug. 2000–Aug. 2002). Amazon Basin scholarship program,
administered by LASPAU (Harvard University). US government sponsored program.
First place
poster in
Economic Botany (Aug.
1999). XVI
International Congress of Botany. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
50% tuition
waiver (Aug. 1999, one
semester) for academic
merits while
studying distance-learning career.
Professional
affiliations
Botanical
Society of
America (BSA) (2004–present).
Red
Latinoamericana de
Botánica (RLB) (1999–present).
Fundación
Ecuatoriana
para la Investigación y Desarrollo de la Botánica (1999–present).