RESEARCHERS
Cristina Mateus
PhD Water Resources Engineering, Oregon State University
Office: Hayek, H-101K
Phone: (+593 2) 297-1700, ext. 1419
E-mail: mcmateus@usfq.edu.ec
Interests
System analysis in water resources management, engineering and science; hydrodynamic modeling and reservoir operations; climate change impacts and adaptation, natural infrastructure, ecosystem services, and other environmental management topics.
Projects
- Efficient water consumption and waste water treatment in the tourism value chain in the Galapagos Islands
- A Multi-stakeholder Approach for Galapagos Water Security and Resiliency under a Changing Climate
- DRYvER: Securing biodiversity, functional integrity and ecosystem services in DRYing riVER networks
- Resolving data fragmentation to examine global-scale drivers of freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
- Atmospheric emissions model for the generation of policies in Galapagos islands
- Fondo Verde Galápagos – FAO: Climate compatible Galapagos
- Resilient urban development in the Galapagos Islands
- Willingness to pay for a transition to a sustainable electric mobility in the Galapagos Islands
- Analysis, Optimization and Update of the Management Plan and Water Quality Monitoring of Santa Cruz-Galápagos
- Identifying Economic, Social, and Institutional Barriers to Decarbonizing the Maritime Transport Sector in the Galápagos Islands
Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Anthropogenic emission inventory and spatial analysis of greenhouse gases and primary pollutants for the Galapagos Islands | Mateus, C., Flor, D., Guerrero, C.A. et al. | Download |
| 2022 | Galapagos Water Management Evaluation Under a Changing Climate and the Current COVID-19 Pandemic. | Mateus, C., Quiroga, D. | Download |
| 2021 | “Water for Galapagos”: a water quality monitoring program for the Galapagos Islands. | Vernaza, W., Pozo, R., Mateus, M. C., Quiroga, D., Stewart, J. R., Thompson, A., Raheem, N., & Ochoa- Herrera, V. | Download |
| 2020 | Governance Mechanisms and Barriers for Achieving Water Quality Improvements in Galapagos. | Mateus, C., Valencia, M., DiFrancesco, K., Ochoa-Herrera, V., Gartner, T & Quiroga, D. | Download |
| 2019 | An Integrated Approach for Evaluating Water Quality between 2007-2015 in Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. | Mateus, C., Guerrero, C., Quezada, G., Lara, D., & Ochoa-Herrera, V. | Download |
| 2017 | Reliability, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty of Reservoir Performance Under Climate Variability in Basins with Different Hydrogeologic Settings in Northwestern United States. | Mateus, C. & Tullos, D. | Download |
| 2016 | Reliability, Sensitivity, and Vulnerability of Reservoir Operations under Climate Change. | Mateus, C. & Tullos, D. | Download |
| 2015 | Hydrologic Sensitivity to Climate and Land Use Changes in the Santiam River Basin, Oregon | Mateus, C., Tullos, D., & Surfleet, C. | Download |
