February 2014 PERSONAL INFORMATION Last Name Name ID Number Pérez Pérez Mervin Emanuel Passport: 00026762K Date and place of birth Age Gender January 29 1982, Guatemala 32 years old Male Citizenship Current Address: Residencia Torre Norte, Apt. 704, Avenida Universidad #4 Guatemalan City Country Postal Code San Juan Puerto Rico 00925

Telephone number Extension E-mail address (787) 222-7410 [email protected]

ACADEMIC INFORMATION Ph.D. Candidate at Environmental Science Program, Aug. 2012- until University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Natural Sciences Faculty. present Campus, Puerto Rico Master in Sciences in Biology. Thesis entitled “Do novel 2008-2010 University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Spathodea campanulata forests function as habitat for Campus, Puerto Rico. bryophytes? Analysis of diversity and establishment process”

Bachelor Degree in Biology. Thesis entitled 2000-2006 University of San Carlos de Guatemala “Composición de las hepáticas en tres estados de (USAC), Guatemala City, Guatemala. sucesión vegetal (bosque, guamil y cultivo) en un bosque nuboso de Guatemala” (Liverworts species composition at three stages of plant succession (old forest, secondary forest and crop plantation) in a cloudy forest of Guatemala). EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES/WORKSHOPS Certificate to climb rock surfaces (Rappelling) 2013 US-Forest Service, Puerto Rico Natural Sciences Faculty Graduate Students Orientation 2012 University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico Workshop: Analysis and tendencies of degraded 2012 Coordinated by Cooperación Iberoamericana de ecosystems and elaboration the status of indicators Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo –CYTED-, AMSCLAE, and University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Workshop: Analysis and update of the 2009 list of 2012 Coordinated by CONAP, INAB, Growing Forest endangered species from Guatemala Partnership, FAO-GFP through the National Forest Program Workshop: Definition, standardization, and prioritization of 2012 Organized by INAB, CONAP, Programa Forestal criteria to elaborate a National Cloudy Forest Map of Nacional de Guatemala, UICN, Growing Forest Guatemala Partnership (GFP), FAO Workshop: Technical considerations and proposal of 2012 Organized by INAB, CONAP, Programa Forestal regulations for forest management to water and soil Nacional de Guatemala, UICN, Growing Forest conservation Partnership (GFP), FAO

February 2014 Symposium: Applications, current tendencies and 2012 Coordinated by the Center for Conservation Studies perspectives of landscape ecology (CECON) and the National Counsel of Science and Technology (CONCYT-Guatemala) I Workshop of Ecological Restoration: from exotic to 2011 Coordinated by the Herbarium USCG-CECON, native University of San Carlos de Guatemala.

Symposium/workshop: Fungi, Lichens and Bryophytes 2011, Organized by the University of Panamá and the March Chicago Field Museum. Panama City. 14-18 Bryophyte Course 2006 Taught By Noris Salazar from Panamá. Organized by Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad –INBio- from Costa Rica in collaboration with the Norwegian Government. San Salvador, El Salvador. Course: Latin for Botanists 2005 Taught by Cyril Nelson from Honduras. Organized by the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad –INBio- de Costa Rica in collaboration with the Norwegian Government. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Inductive course for Teacher Assistant in Biology, 2005 Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy Faculty, University University of San Carlos de Guatemala of San Carlos de Guatemala Workshop for Central-American Herbarium on Databases 2004 Organized by Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad – and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems INBio- from Costa Rica in collaboration with the (GIS) Norwegian Government. San José, Costa Rica. Course in Plant Nomenclature 2004 Taught by Duane Kolterman from Puerto Rico. Organized by Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad – INBio- from Costa Rica in collaboration with the Norwegian Government. Guatemala City, Guatemala. Course: Systematics in the Pinophyta and Magnoliphyta 2002 Botany Department, Biology School, USAC from Guatemala and 2004 Workshop: Use of transects to measure hunting fauna 2003 Tikal Natural Reserve, Petén, Guatemala. density Workshop: Vegetation Data Analysis: Mathematical- 2003 Biology Department, USAC. statistics basics and software application Workshop: Composite plants from Guatemala 2003 Biology Department, USAC. Course: Basic technics for tree climbing 2002 Taught By Jorge M. Vargas. 30 hours. Agriculture Faculty, USAC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Experience Period Institution(s) From - to Teacher Assistant: Introduction to Environmental Jan 2014-  Environmental Sciences Department, Sciences present University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus Aug-Dec 2013 Aug-Dec 2012

February 2014 Member of the academic committee coordinating the Jan-2014-  CECON-USAC graduate course entitled “Socio-Ecological Analyses: present  University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras Campus Tools for human communities resilience”  Wetlands International  Caritas Guatemala  Junej Tinam Organization Member of the academic committee of the graduate Jan-July  CECON-USAC course entitled “Ecological Restoration of Tropical 2013  University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez Campus Ecosystems”  Wetlands International  Colegio de la Frontera Sur –ECOSUR- (México) Teacher Assistant: Geographic Information Systems Jan-May  Environmental Sciences Department, 2013 University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus Herbarium Curator Jan 2011  Center of Conservationist Studies -CECON- – June University of San Carlos de Guatemala 2012 External consultant: Integral program in fire management Mar 2011  Institute of National Forest -INAB- in pine-oak forest – Apr  Defensores de la Naturaleza Foundation 2012  IARNA/URL  Asociación Vivamos Mejor  CONCYT Floristic study coordinator in the cloud forest ecosystem Aug 2011-  Asociación Sotz´il –NGO- at Atitlán Natural Reserve Jan 2012  National Consul of Protected Areas –CONAP- –RUMCLA, Guatemala Professor (course Botany II) Aug - Nov  Agriculture Faculty, Rafael Landivar University 2011 External consultant: Migration and Land Use Change Aug – Sep  Centro de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Project 2011 del Valle de Guatemala

Research Assistant in the Project “Bryophytes and Oct 2009  University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, vascular epiphyte species diversity in Spathodea – Dec Puerto Rico campanulata forests along an altitudinal and geological 2010  USDA Forest Service IITF gradient” Teacher Assistant (Elemental Botany Course) Aug 2008  University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, – Dec Puerto Rico 2010 Research Assistant in the Project “Bryophytes as Jan 2008  University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Biodomes” – July Puerto Rico 2009  National Science Foundation-NSF Project # 0640052 Teacher Assistant (Introduction to Biological Sciences Jan 2008  University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Course) – May Puerto Rico 2008 Principal Investigator of the Project “Composition and Jan 2007  Dirección General de Investigaciones -DIGI– geographic distribution of epiphyllous liverworts on – Dec USAC vascular plant specimens (Lauraceae and Arecaceae) 2007 present in Herbarium collections”

February 2014 Research Assistant at the Herbarium USCG of the 2005-  CECON – USAC Center of Conservationist Studies –CECON- 2006  Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad –INBio-, Costa Rica. Research Assistant in the Project “Pollen rain analysis 2005-  Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - and its relation to current vegetation: A preliminary study 2006 CONCYT- for the local landscape reconstruction at the Chelemhá Cloud Forest Reserve, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala” Teacher Assistant (Biology Course) Jan – May  Biology Department, USAC 2005 Research Assistant in the Project “Distribution of Jan – Dec  DIGI – USAC liverworts species along interpretative trail “Los musgos” 2004 in the Biotope for Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) Conservation, Purulhá, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala” Teacher Assistant (Pharmacobotany Course) July – Dec  Botany Department, USAC 2003

PUBLICATIONS Authors Year Title Journal Vol.(Nº) Pages Deborah L. Matthews 2014 Description of the Natural Zootaxa (Accepted) --- and Mervin E. Pérez History and Immature Stages of Postplatyptilia caribica Gielis in Puerto Rico (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae)

Virginia Freire, Mervin 2013 Hepatic flora of a Guatemalan Tropical Bryology (35) 1-13 Pérez, Felipe Ramírez, cloud forest and María Victoria Ríos J.V. Martínez Arévalo, 2013 Integración del conocimiento Tikalia 31(1-2013) 73-91 M. Pérez, C.O. Rivera científico y el tradicional en los Mazariegos, M.M. procesos de restauración de Velásquez Villatoro los bosques de pinabete (Abies guatemalensis Rehder), San Marcos, Guatemala

“Integration of scientific and traditional knowledge in the process of restoring Pinabete forests (Abies guatemalensis Rehder), San Marcos, Guatemala”

Mervin E. Pérez, Inés 2012 Bryophyte Species Diversity in BIOTROPICA 44(6) 763-770 Sastre-De Jesús, Ariel Secondary Forest Dominated E. Lugo and Oscar by the Introduced Species Abelleira-Martínez Spathodea campanulata Beauv. in Puerto Rico

February 2014 Mervin E. Pérez y 2012 Listado preliminar de los Revista Guatemalensis 15 Guillermo López-Medina musgos (Briophyta) y hepáticas (Marchantiophyta) del departamento de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

“Preliminary list of the mosses (Briophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of the Department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala” Mervin E. Pérez, 2012 La colección del Herbario Ciencia y Conservación (2) 30-41 Rosario Rodas, José USCG Juan Vega y Edwin Reyes “Plant reference collection in the Herbarium USCG”

Inés Sastre-De Jesús, 2010 Mosses of the Dominican Harvard Papers in Botany 15(2) 415-446 Mervin Pérez & Ángel Republic: species catalogue, Motito Marin elevational distribution and floristic affinities Mervin E. Pérez 2009 Catálogo de las hepáticas BRENESIA 71-72 3-12 (Marchantiophyta) de Guatemala: una actualización

“Catalogue of the liverworts of Guatemala (Marchantiophyta): an update” Mervin Pérez & Inés 2009 Sinkholes Important Bryophyte EVANSIA 26(2) 45-49 Sastre-De Jesús Areas: The case of Guajataca Commonwealth Forest in Puerto Rico Abstracts at Year Event Participation Abstracts congresses, Book symposium, or others pages (Authors) Mervin E. Pérez and 2014 XXIX Symposium of Flora and Conference --- Elvia Meléndez- Fauna from the Caribbean Breeding system and pollination of Ackerman Gesneria pauciflora a threatened caribbean species: Brief island reproductive syndrome analysis in Gesneriaceae species Mervin E. Pérez and 2013 XVII Symposium of the Conference --- Elvia Meléndez- Department of Natural Gesneria pauciflora: An endemic and Ackerman Resources: The threatened threatened plant species from Puerto and endangered species in Rico Puerto Rico

February 2014 Mervin E. Pérez and 2013 Botany 2013: Celebrating Poster http://2013.bot Elvia Meléndez- Diversity! New Orleans, U.S. Breeding system and pollination of anyconference .org/engine/se Ackerman Gesneria pauciflora urb. arch/index.php (Gesneriaceae): An endemic and ?func=detail&a threatened species of the Caribbean id=240

Mervin E. Pérez 2013 2nd. Graduate Research Poster --- Student Congress, University La charca del Recinto: un servicio of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras ecosistémico sub-utilizado Campus “The Río Piedras Campus Pond: a underused ecosystem service” Mervin E. Pérez & Inés 2010 X Latin-American Congress in Conference 16 Sastre-De Jesús Botany. La Serena, Chile Aplicaciones del muestreo florístico por hábitat: un caso de estudio de los bosques nublados en Sierra de Neiba, República Dominicana

“Application of the Floristic habitat sampling method: a study case in Sierra de Neiba cloud forests, Dominican Republic” Mervin E. Pérez & Inés 2010 X Latin-American Congress of Poster 18 Sastre-De Jesús Botany. La Serena, Chile Resiliencia de briofitos después de 40 años de sucesión vegetal en Puerto Rico

“Bryophyte resilience after 40 year of secondary plant succession in Puerto Rico”

Mervin E. Pérez & Inés 2009 Botany & Mycology 2009, Conference 82 Sastre-De Jesús Snowbird, Utah, USA Importance of characterizing meso- habitats and quantifying microhabitats: the case of Sierra de Neiba, Dominican Republic Mervin E. Pérez & Inés 2009 XXVIII Caribbean Fauna and Poster 22 Sastre-De Jesús Floral Symposium, Humacao, Actualización del listado de los musgos Puerto Rico de la Republica Dominicana y su afinidad con países de Sur y Centro América

“Update moss list from Dominican Republic and its affinity with South and Central American countries”

February 2014 Virginia Freire, Mervin 2006 IX Latin-American Congress of Poster 264 Pérez & Felipe Ramírez Botany. Santo Domingo, Distribución de las hepáticas presentes Dominican Republic. en el sendero interpretativo "los musgos" del Biotopo Universitario para la Conservación del Quetzal "Lic. Mario Dary Rivera" Purulhá, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala

“Liverworts species distribution along the interpretative trail “Los musgos” at the Biotope for Quetzal Conservation, Purulhá, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala”

SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND OTHERS INVITATIONS Speaker, invited by Cooperación Iberoamericana Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo-CYTED-, AMSCLAE and the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Conference: “Do novel Spathodea campanulata forests function as habitat for bryophytes? Analysis of diversity and establishment process” Workshop “Status Analysis and Degraded Ecosystems Tendencies and elaboration of status indicators” (March 2012). Speaker, invited by Botanical Garden of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Conference “Guatemala and its Biodiversity”. Conference for a volunteer group to serve at the Botanical Garden. (November, 2011) Speaker, invited by National Counsel of Science and Technology –CONCYT-. Conference “Ecological Restoration and the Forest”. Event: CONVERCIENCIA. (July 2011) Speaker, invited by the Center for Conservation Studies-CECON-USAC. Conference: “Ecological Restoration”. Event: Certification course in Protected Areas. (July, 2011) Speaker, invited by the Biology School, Chemical Science and Pharmacy Faculty, USAC. Conference: “Plants as a natural recycling system”. Event: Commemorative activity for the Earth Day. (May, 2011) Speaker, invited by the Botany Department, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Exactas y Tecnología, University of Panamá. Conference: “Do novel Spathodea campanulata forests function as habitat for bryophytes? Analysis of diversity and establishment process”. Event: Fungi, Lichens, and Bryophyte Workshop. (March, 2011) Speaker, invited by Biology School, Chemical Science and Pharmacy Faculty, USAC. Conference: “Graduate Program Experiences at Puerto Rico”. Event: Commemorative activity for the Biologist Day. (February, 2011)

APPROVED PROPOSALS FOR FUNDING Determination and Evaluation to Restore Pine-Oak Ecosystem. Project accepted in July 2012, to develop on 18 months starting at August 2012. Funding by National Counsel of Science and Technology–CONCYT- (2012-present) Tropical Ecosystems Restoration (Graduate Course). Course approved by the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. 2013. Funded by University of San Carlos de Guatemala, Wetlands International, University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez Campus, ECOSUR-Mexico. (January-July 2013) Implementation of Brahms Database in the Herbarium USCG. Project developed in June 2012 and funded by the Atlantea Program of Puerto Rico and CECON-USAC-. (June 2012) I Ecological Restoration Workshop: from exotic to native. Project developed in October 2011, funded by CONCYT- FACYT (October 2011) Liverwort species diversity in the lowland tropical forest in Guatemala (Biotopes Cerro Cahuí, El Zotz and Laguna del Tigre, Petén, Guatemala. Project funding by the National Counsel of Science and Technology-CONCYT-FODECYT (2008)

February 2014 Composition and geographic distribution of the epiphyte hepatics specimens present at Herbarium, of the families Lauraceae and Arecaceae of Guatemala. Project funded by Dirección General de Investigaciones –DIGI- de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala –USAC- (2007)

SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS Institution(s) involved Scholarship Dates Minority in Natural Resource Full stipend to participate at the 67th Conference of the October 13-16 Conservation (MINRC) Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Oklahoma 2013 City, U.S. Chicago Field Museum Stipend to participate at the Symposium-Workshop of Fungi, March 14-18 Lichens, and Bryophytes. University of Panamá 2011 Asociación Latinoamericana de Stipend to participate at the Latin American Congress of Botany June-2006 Botánica –ALB- (2006-Dominican Republic and 2010-Chile) October-2010 National Institute of Biodiversity - Full scholarship to participate at the Course of Bryophytes. San 22 -28 July INBio- of Costa Rica in agreement Salvador, El Salvador 2006 with the Norway government National Institute of Biodiversity - Full scholarship to participate at the Course of Latin for botanists. 31 October- INBio- of Costa Rica in agreement Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 4 November with the Norway government 2005 National Institute of Biodiversity - Full scholarship to participate at the Course/Workshop for Central 3-5 November INBio- of Costa Rica in agreement American Herbarium on Databases and Introduction to Geographic 2004 with the Norway government Information Systems. San José, Costa Rica National Institute of Biodiversity - Full scholarship to participate in the course of Plant Nomenclature. 2-6 August INBio- of Costa Rica in agreement Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala. 2004 with the Norway government

EXTRACURRICULAR INFORMATION Graduate student representative in Environmental Science Progra, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, 2013-2014 External reviewer in Brenesia Journal, National Museum of Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Year 2013 Editorial committee for Ciencia y Conservación Journal, Center for Conservation Studies-CECON-, University of San Carlos de Guatemala. January 2011 to June 2012. National representative (Guatemala) in the Latin American Association of Bryology. October 2010-2014. Active member (2010-2014) of the Latin American Association of Bryology. Active member of the Botanical Society of America-BSA. Undergraduate Student Association of Chemical Science and Pharmacy Faculty, University of San Carlos de Guatemala, (Position Culture Secretary) 2002-2003. Collaborator at the First Guatemalan Symposium of Botany. Herbario USCG, Center for Conservation Studies-CECON- University of San Carlos de Guatemala. November 24 – 26, 2003. Participant at the VI Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation. San José Costa Rica, September 15 – 20, 2002.