About Us
HOW WE WORK?
Our work team is characterized for its high academic formation and its interdisciplinary work capacity, always looking like ultimate an improvement of the communities’ life quality and the conservation of our biodiversity.
WHO WE ARE?
Mission
Our mission is to promote, to incentive and to develop the investigation of biological resources and the social and cultural development within a sustainability framework, designing conservation plans of species, ecosystems and holistic cultural resources’ through an interdisciplinary focus which is looking for the human welfare and the biodiversity conservation.
Vision
Develop the conservation of ecosystems, the flora species and the tropical fauna species in an integral way until become it in a reliable information source which allows us to realize the planning of the natural resources and the cultural wealth, promoting the sustainably socioeconomic development, evaluating its threatens and providing sustainably solutions.
WHERE WE WORK?
ProCAT Colombia and The Sierra to Sea Institute focus its projects in critic zones not only for its biologic importance but also for its cultural importance, choosing our work sites based in the necessities of the priority conservation zones which are highly threatens but at the same time those still have attributes that need help and protection. Until the date, our work has had focused primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but we take a part in projects in different American regions. (Mexico, USA, Chile)
WORK TEAM
Managers

José F. González Maya, Ph.D.
Director

Diego A. Zárrate-Charry, BSc, Ph.D (e)
Consejo científico

Mauricio González, B.Sc.
Director administrativo

Jan Schipper, Ph.D.
Investigador Senior
Equipo de investigadores

Diego A. Gómez-Hoyos, M.Sc.
Coordinador de investigación
Costa Rica

Catalina Moreno-D., B.Sc.
Coordinadora Administrativa /Investigador

Ginna Gómez-Junco, M.Sc.
Investigador
Equipo de Investigadores asociados

Leonardo Lemus Mejía
Investigador

I. Mauricio Vela-Vargas, M.Sc., Ph.D. (e)
Investigador Asociado

J. Sebastián Jiménez-Alvarado, B.Sc.
Investigador Asociado

Angela P. Hurtado-Moreno, B.Sc., M.Sc. (e)
Investigador Asociado

Armando H. Escobedo-Galván, Ph.D
Investigador Asociado

Beth Polidoro
Consejo científico

Michael Mikelberg
Consejo científico

Fernando Castañeda
Consejo científico

Fidela Charry
Consejo científico

David Zárrate Charry
Consejo científico

Sherry Luger
Consejo científico
