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Ana Margarita Valenzuela Toro
Assistant researcher
CIAHN Atacama
Caldera, Chile
Scholar investigating marine ecosystems and marine mammal fauna on ecological and evolutionary scales. Expertise in biogeochemistry, paleontology, comparative morphology, and specimen and museum-based research.
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Ecology and Evolution, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ. Estados Unidos, 2022
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Ecology and Evolution, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ. Estados Unidos, 2020
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Biological Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2014
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Biological Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2011
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Graduate researcher Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, Estados Unidos
2016 - 2022
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Teacher assistant Part Time
University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, Estados Unidos
2019 - 2022
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Field paleontologist Other
Consultora Paleosuchus Limitada
Santiago, Chile
2012 - 2016
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Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition
ROYAL SOCIETY
Estados Unidos, 2023
Selected as a runner-up in this competition, which aimed to select the best papers published in Biology Letters authored by early career researchers.
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Chancellor’s Award. University of California Santa Cruz
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ
Estados Unidos, 2021
Dissertation Year Fellowship. One quarter of funding (stipend plus academic and tuition fees). US$14,263
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Peter Buck Predoctoral Fellowship
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Estados Unidos, 2020
Project name: “Diving into the deep past: Unraveling the foraging ecology and habitat preferences of extinct pinnipeds.” US$67,427
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Vertebrate Paleontology collection study award
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY-LOS ANGELES
Chile, 2016
Aimed to cover expenses associated with research travel to the museum collections.
When physiology and ecology meet: the interdependency between foraging ecology and reproduction in Otariids |
Mamíferos marinos (excepto cetáceos) fósiles de Chile |
Measuring the very dead from the living=> understanding fossil diversity by analyzing the osteology of modern true seals |
"Faunal Turnover in Southern Hemisphere=> Looking for new evidence from eastern coast South Pacific Ocean" |
Seals from the late Neogene of the eastern coast of the South Pacific Ocean=> morphological variation or taxa diversity? |
Excavación sistemática del yacimiento de titanosaurios de quebrada La Higuera, Región de Atacama=> Integrando datos tafonómicos y paleoambientales |
Insights into the evolution of modern marine ecosystems from a Miocene bonebed in the Atacama Desert of Chile |
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Carolina S. Gutstein
Investigadora auxiliar proyecto investigación
Biologia
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile