Full Professor, Department of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
B.A., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia (German Galvis and Santiago Duque)
M.Sc., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Miguel Petrere, Jr. and Alexandre Godinho)
Ph.D., Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (Jaime Palacio Baena and Rosseval Leite)
My research spans from fish populations and assemblages to artisanal fisheries. In 1992, for my undergraduate research, I studied fish diversity in the floating macrophytes of the Amazon River. During that time, I had the chance to study the fish community and observe the dynamics of ornamental fisheries in these riverine habitats. Then in 1998, using knowledge from fishermen and a fish assemblage monitoring strategy, I had the opportunity to predict the changes in fish assemblages and fisheries that could result from the proposed construction of a dam on the Sogamoso River, a major tributary of the Magdalena River in the northwestern Andes. As a result...