
Name:
Ignacio Minoli
Occupation:
Specialist in Biodiversity
Databases, GIS and R Programming for environmental decision
making
Highest Academic Degree:
PhD in Biological
Sciences
Core Skills:
Free Software - Open Source -
Linux - R Programming - Bash-Shell Programming - Python Programming -
HTML Programming - SublimeText - Rstudio.
Biogeography, Databases,
Cartography, Maps, Climate Change, Ecological Niche Modeling, GIS,
Spatial Analysis.
Short Bio
I was born in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. At the age of nine I moved with my family to Goya, Corrientes
(north of Argentina). I have always been in contact with and passionate
about nature, plants, animals, fishing, rivers, jungles and exploration
with horseback riding, bicycles or kayaking. In those analog times, I
learned many survival skills and compass land navigation (which I still
use on my field trips). I like being able to use advanced technological
skills as well as traditional manual - analog abilities. My father and
grandfather have instilled in me during my childhood these skills along
with strong values of biodiversity conservation, which has marked my
vocation for life.
In 1998, I worked in the Provincial Flora
and Fauna Secretary of Corrientes and from the year 2000 I began to work
in mammals annual surveys in the Chaco National Park and in different
points of Corrientes and Misiones. In 2006 I graduated with a Bachelor
degree in Zoology from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) in
Corrientes Capital, Argentina.
I moved to Buenos Aires where
for two years I learned valuable computer skills working in the private
sector. Later, I settled in Puerto Madryn (Chubut, Patagonia Argentina)
where I did a PhD in Biological Sciences at the CENPAT at the National
University of Córdoba (UNC) working with reptiles in Argentine-Chilean
Patagonia. After a brief period as a student at Brigham Young University
(Provo, Utah, USA), I obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at IPEEC -
CONICET working with modeling - climate change, and was an interim
professor at the University of Chubut (UDC) based in Puerto Madryn.
Through all my working and academic experience, I specialized in
biodiversity, biogeography, spatial ecology at the regional level,
availability of environments, sampling - management of large databases
with species presences. As a basis for my evolution and professional
growth, I use only open source, multi-platform, free software (Linux as
OS, programming in R, Python and Bash-Shell).
Currently, I work
at the Institute of Subtropical Biology (IBS) based in Posadas,
Misiones, Argentina, in a Assistant Professional Position of
CONICET-UNaM as administrator of the Biodiversity Database at the
Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Observatory (OBBA), where I live with my
wife Ana, my son Máximo and my daughter Miranda.
Web Profiles and Social Media:
You can find me at…
6) Red Argentina de Monitoreo de Fauna Atropellada –
RAMFA
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Interactive
- reactive map filtering
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Interactive
- reactive density map
You can checkout all my background and experience here:
If you can’t see it on your cell phone, you can download it
directly from here