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| Education |
| MS |
1992 |
Biology |
Universidad
de Costa Rica, Costa Rica |
| B.A |
1986 |
Biology |
Universidad
de Costa Rica, Costa Rica |
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| Position
held |
| 1998-present |
Instructor. Course of Tropical Ecology
and Conservation Biology, Council on International Educational
Exchange. Semester Program. Monteverde, Costa Rica
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| 1997-Present |
Resident Biologist. Estación
Biológica Monteverde. Monteverde, Puntarenas,
Costa Rica.
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| 1997-Present |
Summer Director and Instructor. Course
of Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology, Council
on International Educational Exchange. Summer Program.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
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| 1996-97 |
Consultant for Productores de Monteverde, Monteverde,
Puntarenas. “Biological Control Program for mosquitoes
in the waste pound of the pig farm.”
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| 1993-96 |
Research Associate/Project Manager.
Dr. Greg K. Murray principal investigator. “Dynamics
of tropical forest seed banks: seed predators as determinants
of community structure and plant-frugivore coevolution.”.
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| 1993 |
Instructor of Biosystematic course,
Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Regional de Guanacaste.
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| 1989-92 |
Manager, Control Pest Department, Azucarera
el Viejo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
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| 1985-89 |
Field Assistant for Dr. Carlos E. Valerio,
Universidad de Costa Rica, Project, Biosystematic of
Spiders in Costa Rica. |
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| Publications
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| --K.
G. Murray and J. M. Garcia-C. 2002 Contributions
of seed dispersal and demography to recruitment limitation in
a Costa Rican cloud forest. D.J. Levey, W.R. Silva and M. Galletti,
(Eds). Seed Dispersal and Frugivory: Ecology, Evolution and
Conservation. Published by CAB International.
-- Eberhard, W.
G., J. M. García-C. and J. Lobo. 2000.
Size-specific defensive structures in a horned weevil confirm
a classic battle plan: avoid fights with larger opponents.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 267, 1129-1134
-- Eberhard, W.
G. and J. M. García-C. 2000. Ritual
Jousting by Horned Parisoschoenus expositus weevils (Coleoptera,
Curculionidae, Baridininae). Psiche 103(1-2) 55-83
-- García-C.
J. M. 1992. Uso del cultivo intercalado tomate con
fríjol en cuanto a la incidencia y los daños
producidos por plagas. Tesis M. Sc. Escuela de Biología,
Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria “Rodrigo
Facio”. 56p.
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García-C, J. M. 1989. Courtship and
copulation in Arrhenodes sp. The Coleopterists Bulletin 43(4):
313-314.
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| Courses
and Congress |
| November
21-25, 1988. |
“Taller
Centroamericano y del Caribe en Manejo Integrado de
Plagas de las Hortalizas”, F.A.O, C.A.T.I.E.,
M.A.G. and U.C.R., San José, Costa Rica.
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| October
5-7, 1989. |
“IV
Congreso Anual Azucarero de A.T.A.CO.RI., Asociación
de Técnicos Azucareros de Costa Rica”,
lecture: “Control Biológico de Aeneolamia
sp (Cercopidae) en caña de azúcar”,
Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
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| August
7-9, 1990. |
“Curso
sobre la producción masiva en el laboratorio
y la aplicación en el campo del hongo entomopatógeno
Metarrhizium anisopliae para el control de salivazos
en caña de azúcar”. Escuela Agrícola
Panaméricana, El Zamorano, Honduras.
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| June
25-27, 1991. |
“Manejo
racional de plaguicidas y disposiciones cuarentenarias”,
CINDE (Coalición Costarricense de Iniciativas
de Desarrollo), San José, Costa Rica.
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| September
16-20, 1991. |
“IX
Congreso de Tecnología Azucarera de Centro América
y Panamá”, ATACA 91. San José, Costa
Rica.
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| November
16-20, 1992. |
“I
Congreso Centroamericano de Entomología y Combate
Natural de Plagas y II Congreso Costarricense de Entomología”,
lecture 1: “Uso del cultivo intercalado tomate
con fríjol”; lecture 2: “Mocis latipes
(Noctuidae) y los niveles económicos de daño
en caña de azúcar”. San José,
Costa Rica.
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| August
10-14, 1996. |
“Annual
Combined Meeting. Ecological Society of America”,
lecture: Murray, K. G., J. M. García-C., R. Solano,
B. Guindon and K. Winnett-Murray “Patchy seed
rain vs. predation as generators of heterogeneous tropical
forest seed banks”
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| January
12, 2002. |
“
Ritual Justin by Horned weevils” Seminar. Canadian
Center of Biodiversity, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa,
Ontario. Canada. |
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| Associate
Groups |
| Asociación
de Entomólogos Costarricenses (ASENCO). # 287.
Instituto Monteverde, Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Asociación Conservacionista Monteverde, Monteverde,
Puntarenas, Costa Rica. |
| Other
Interest |
| I
am involved in conservation. During 1995 and 1996 I was part
of the Monteverde Conservation League Board of Directors;
a non-profit organization that manage the biggest private
reserve in Costa Rica and tries to preserve the tropical ecosystems
and biodiversity in Costa Rica.
I am also familiar with the use of Microsoft Word, Excel,
Power Point, Access and statistical programs StatView and
Systat.
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