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Conservation Science
Alfonso Lombana
Marine Conservation Specialist
Areas of Expertise: Marine ecology and conservation; GIS, mapping, and spatial analysis; strategic conservation planning; marine protected area conservation, planning, and design; sea turtle conservation
Alfonso Lombana
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Al joined CSP in 2004 and works to conserve endangered places and species in the world’s oceans. His current research is diverse and includes a project to understand how best to plan and design marine protected area networks in East Africa and Asia-Pacific to maximize their biological and socio-economic benefits. Al is also researching the effects of rising sea level and temperatures on sea turtle nesting in the Caribbean with a goal to quantify nesting beaches’ vulnerability to climate change. He has also recently begun an assessment of polar bears that should improve our knowledge about existing populations—where they live, what they eat—and possible scenarios for the next 25 to 100 years as their sea ice habitat melts. A biologist with over 10 years of international experience, Al has traveled the globe doing conservation research and has worked on several projects in the Coral Triangle and Pacific Islands. He did his undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary and graduate research at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Email: alfonso.lombana@wwfus.org
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