 Jenny
has wide knowledge and training in marine ecology, biodiversity and
fisheries management. Her strengths include performing quantitative
and spatial analysis, ecological modeling, and data management. She
uses these tools to explore consequences of species behavior and harvest
for population dynamics, and to find relationships and patterns affecting
species population and its habitat.
Responsibilities: Jenny works closely with the CFS team
to construct databases and ensure data quality control for fish biological,
fisheries and environmental data collected in Sacramento and San Joaquin
Deltas as well as perform quantitative analysis of the data. Jenny communicates
that data to current and prospective funding agencies through reports,
presentations, and publications.
Background: Jenny has been involved in several projects
starting from volunteering and field work to working at large marine
ecosystem and fisheries projects with universities. Her earlier research
dealt with the nutrient uptake of green algae species as well as the
assessment of coral reef distribution, diversity and abundance. She also
conducted research in cooperation with the Marine Biology Section at Ghent
University, Belgium on the ecology of marine meiobenthic fauna in tropical
seagrass beds (the Philippines, Kenya, and Mexico). With this intensive
analysis, she provided an initial list of harpacticoid copepods taxonomic
species found in the Philippines, and the global evidences of marine benthic
fauna vital ecological functions in shaping the overall coastal ecosystem.
Jenny also completed a project funded by Lenfest Ocean Program with Arizona
State University on trophic interaction between marine mammals and fisheries
in the tropic areas through a systematic and holistic approach using the
local data of whale's diets, abundance/biomass and fisheries time-series
catches from the published literatures and reports. She was heavily involved
in the study of the population, reproductive and fishery biology of commercially
important invertebrates in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. In this project,
management tools, indicators and an integrated framework for commercially
important invertebrates was developed.
Jenny holds a Masters degree in Ecological Marine Management from Vrije
Universiteit Brussels (VUB) in Belgium, and a Bachelors degree from the
University of San Carlos in the Philippines.
Personal: When Jenny is not working, she spends her time
with family and friends watching movies and visiting new and interesting
places. She is always up for spontaneous road trips, camping, hiking and
scuba diving together with her husband. She also travels around the world
to enjoy the culture, history and food as well as visiting her dearest
friends from different countries. "Simple conversations and good laughs
with my friends and family make me happy and complete my time away from
work." |
