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Patricia Ocampo Thomason Patricia took a B.Sc. in Marine Biology in Valle University in her native country, Colombia. After that she worked for 3 years as Project director in a Colombian government office. The project aims were to research alternative techniques of fish and shrimp farming in mangrove areas along the Pacific Coast of Colombia. After that she went to work for a European Community project on the settlement of oysters, also on the pacific coast of Colombia. Subsequently she was technical director for a government funded artisanal fishermen's project. In 1992 she moved to England where she learned English and took a Masters degree in Tropical Coastal Management at Newcastle University. After finishing her M.Sc. Patricia returned to Colombia to work on the production of policies for the coastal management of Colombia. She then worked in the IOCARIBE office at Cartagena on coastal management issues for the Caribbean region. She married and settled in England in 1998. Since then she has been working at Newcastle University as a research assistant, on projects including video analysis of larval behavior, and the settlement of coral larvae on Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. Additionally she is undertaking a Ph.D. degree combining marine sciences and social sciences for the sustainable management of tropical coastal resources. During this mission Patricia will be part of the surface support team and will work on the coral's stinging cells (nematocysts) and take the macro-photographs. |
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