Marcia Moreno-Báez
My research interests' center on bridge the gap between the use of geospatial technology and its potential users in fields such as conservation, natural resources management and community development. My expertise has been on underlying the use local knowledge and scientific research with participatory mapping techniques.
At present, my research as the University of Arizona and PANGAS project staff, involves the integration of local knowledge to understand the human dimension of small-scale fisheries in the Northern Gulf of California (NGC). As the northern Gulfs small-scale fisheries involve not only a wide array of fishing gear, methods, species, but also take place in a variety of habitats and under various socio-political settings, the knowledge of not only researchers but local people, its been crucial to bring adequate tools to fill the gaps in information required for evaluation, design and analysis for different aspects in a multidisciplinary problem.
Being originally from Guaymas, on the Sonoran coast in México, I have had the opportunity to work in different organizations focused on natural resources management and conservation. Today, my research has been transformed into an interdisciplinary career focused mostly centered on the creation of tools to access and analyze natural system data working with researchers, users and decision makers.
