PROFESSORS
Diana Pazmiño
PhD. Marine Sciences, James Cook University
Office: Galápagos Campus
Phone: (+593 2) 297-1700, Ext. 5025
E-mail: dapazmino@usfq.edu.ec
Interests
Born and raised in the Galapagos, Diana is a strong advocate for local capacity building. Her work is focused on the use of molecular techniques (genetics and genomics) to develop tools capable to assess population structure, connectivity, and effective size of wild populations in order to inform management and conservation efforts. Diana works both locally and regionally in collaboration with scientists in the Eastern Tropical Pacific to understand the dynamics of marine megafauna.
Projects
- Rays as model organisms to identify priority areas for conservation within the Galapagos Marine Reserve: the project aims at using SNPs and mitochondrial DNA to assess species ID and population structure of multiple ray species at the regional level across the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Unprecedented Records of Guadalupe and Juan Fernández Fur Seals in the Galapagos Archipelago | Diego Páez-Rosas, Diana A. pazmiño, Marjorie Riofrío-Lazo | Download |
| 2019 | Assessing patterns of introgressive hybridisation between Carcharhinus galapagensis and Carcharhinus obscurus in the East Pacific Region | Diana A. Pazmiño, Lynne vanHerwerden, Madeline Green, Colin Simpfendorfer, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Clinton Duffy, Carl Meyer, S.E. Kerwath, Gregory Maes | Download |
| 2019 | Use of cytochrome b for determining the unresolved status of the dwarf minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata subspecies) | Omar Ramirez-Flores, Allastair Birtles, Diana A. Pazmiño, Lynne vanHerwerden | Download |
| 2018 | Genome-wide SNP markers reveals strong Trans-Pacific break and local adaptive units in the Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) | Diana A. Pazmiño, Gregory Maes, Colin Simpfendorfer, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Clinton Duffy, Steve Donellan, Lynne vanHerwerden | Download |
| 2018 | Advertisement calls and DNA sequences reveal a new species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae) on the Pacific lowlands of Ecuador | Santiago R. Ron, William Duellman, Marcel Caminer, Diana A. Pazmiño | Download |
| 2017 | Genome-wide SNPs reveal low effective population size within confined management units of the highly vagile Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) | Diana A. Pazmiño, Gregory Maes, Colin Simpfendorfer, Pelayo Salinas-de-León, Lynne vanHerwerden | Download |
