July 13, 2020
Dr. Claudio Campagna is a conservation researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. He has an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a PhD in Biology from UCSC. He has been a field conservationists and scientist working in coastal Patagonia since the 1980. Recognizing the urgent need to promote conservation using creative communication tools, Claudio publishes widely in both the scientific and popular literature, and has served on several national, regional and international marine conservation committees and specialist groups. He funded the Forum of NGOs for the conservation of the Patagonian Sea, and has been serving in the Steering Committees of several conservation organizations, such as the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN, where he is also served as co-Chair of the Marine Subcommittee.