Gustavo Cárdenas Hinojosa

I graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur in La Paz with a B.S. in Marine Biology, and in the same University I graduated with a M.S. in Coastal and Marine Sciences. My Master’s topic was the distribution and habitat of beaked whales of the Southwest Gulf of California. In 2009, I led the first research project focused on beaked whales and cetaceans of the Guadalupe Island. In October 2016, I was the chief scientist of the project named “Divina Guadalupe”, which was done in collaboration with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography (among other organizations) to re-start the research effort to study the ecology of Cuvier’s beaked whales of Guadalupe Island. I have collaborated on more than 25 research projects on cetaceans since 2002. I have done field work in all over the Gulf of California, Gulf of Alaska, south of California, Gulf of Mexico, Archipiélago Islas Marías, and in the Pacific coast of the Península of Baja California. Currently, I am a PhD student at CICESE where my topic research is related to the effects of the presence of dolphins and other variables to the acoustic detection of vaquita.

March 2017