Projects

 Ocean Health Index (OHI) Science

We participated with Conservation International, the Ocean Health Index (OHI) Science Group and the Ecuadorian government on a project to measure the OHI in the Gulf of Guayaquil. Our group successfully participated in leading the update and adaptation of the OHI model to the local reality, by redesigning the data architecture, model updating, transfer of technology and setting the standards and know how to continue the OHI updates in the future. We reinforced our experience in coordinating with two major consulting firms and also had the opportunity to update in-depth aspects regarding the source code of the model, associated data layers and the pressure matrix. The final on-line product can be view at

http://ohi-science.org/gye/scores.

Package vetools

The package vetools is an open source library for the statistical software R. Developed in-house, the library implements a new variation of the EM algorithm for missing data and also offers a variety

of tools concerning the loading and manipulation of environmental data available from different Venezuelan governmental sources. It also provides a variety of facilities to assess the quality of a given meteorological dataset. The library is a great asset and has been successfully used in various projects. For more information visit https://cran.r-project.org/package=vetools

The latest release can be downloaded from https://github.com/talassio/vetools.

Sociedad Anticancerosa de Venezuela

We also collaborated with the Sociedad Anticancerosa de Venezuela in forecasting cancer incidence and mortality rates for the year 2016. The overall project included proposing nouvelle models to fit historical data and prepare suitable reports for decision-taking and policy makers as well as a detailed report on projections on nation-wide and state-wise scale, differentiating gender and principal locations with age grouping.

Empresa Nicaraguense de Electricidad

Consulting in vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and risk reduction assessment in hydropower generation, by using national climate change scenarios on the Apanás-Asturias Lake system in Nicaragua. Climate variability and change impact assessments on the interconnected hydropower production system in the Apanás-Asturias lake by modeling the hydrological conditions on its main sub-catchments, using historical hydro-climatological records available and climate change scenarios in the timeframe horizons: 2025, 2050, 2075 and 2100.