Ximena Boza Noriega

Ximena Boza Noriega was born and raised in Panama City, Panama. She did her B.Sc. in Marine Biology in College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA and a earned a Chevening scholarship to do a M.Sc. in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre in the University of Southampton, UK. After her master's, she moved to a remote Caribbean Island in the province of Bocas del Toro in Panama, to work as a research technician III for Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). While working for MarineGEO and STRI, she took a one-year leave, as she won the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO training program scholarship for a graduate certificate in Ocean Mapping (Category A in Hydrography) at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC), at the University of New Hampshire, USA.