Early Career Research Fellow - Santiago Herrera
Implementing Organization
Lehigh University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$76,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Santiago Herrera is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University. He received his B.S. in biology and microbiology and M.S. in biological sciences from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. During his master's work, he was a graduate fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. He earned his Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joint program. He was also a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the ecological and evolutionary processes that produce global biodiversity patterns in the ocean. He uses interdisciplinary approaches that combine molecular and environmental data with bioinformatic tools to study the past, present, and future of deep-sea and cold-water ecosystems, focusing on deep-sea coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico and around the world.
Contact
Santiago HerreraNone
sah516@lehigh.edu
Project Website
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