Ximena Boza Noriega
Research Technician III (Earth sciences; Oceanography; Other earth sciences)
Bocas del Toro, Panama
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.
Publications
- Seasonal hypoxia and temperature inversions in a tropical bay
- Land Use and Land Cover Shape River Water Quality at a Continental Caribbean Land-Ocean Interface
- Climate Change and Bermuda Part I: Science and Physical Hazards
- Climate Change and Bermuda Part II: Impacts and Societal Risks