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Please join us for a presentation and discussion in the Ethical Open Science for Past Global Change Data: Moving the Quaternary Data Ecosystem Forward webinar series with Pedro Monarrez, University of California, Los Angeles.
About Pedro Monarrez
Dr. Pedro Monarrez is the Recruitment, Outreach, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (RODEI) coordinator in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences at UCLA. His research investigates the biological processes that drive evolutionary patterns of marine organisms across geologic time and the role that the environment has played in these processes. He also studies the variation and reconciliation of local and regional expressions of global macroevolutionary patterns and perturbations, such as mass extinctions. A first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles, California, Dr. Monarrez initially possessed an interested in marine biology, and decided to pursue geology after watching the movie, Dante’s Peak in high school. He attended Cal State Fullerton, majoring in Geological Sciences, and developed a passion for marine paleobiology, deciding to pursue this as a career after participating in an NSF REU at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. After earning his B.S., he stayed at Cal State Fullerton for a Master’s degree. For the next two years, he split his time between living in Panamá working for the Florida Museum of Natural History and working in paleontological resource mitigation in Southern California. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Georgia. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Monarrez was a Stanford Earth Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University.