Partner Institutions
PANGAS is a collaborative project involving researchers from the biological, physical, and social sciences from three Universities and three non-profit research and conservation organizations in Mexico and the United States. Participants from each partner institution work together to develop and conduct research, training, and outreach, while each partner also contributes its own specialties and areas of emphasis.
Universities
University of Arizona (UA)
Main responsibilities: Oversight and management of overall project; design of general research framework; institutional analysis, and social component of project; centralization of all metadata; participation in design and implementation of rapid appraisal, data gathering, and analysis of life history and connectivity studies.
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
Main responsibilities: Physical oceanography and development of coupled biological-oceanographic models.
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Main responsibilities: Studies on connectivity using elemental fingerprinting and molecular genetics; development of population dynamics models; habitat analysis.
Non-Governmental Partners
Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans. (CEDO)
Main responsibilities: Conducting rapid appraisal in northern portion of the study area; elaboration of educational materials; technical field support; organization of meetings with stakeholders; public policy outreach.
Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A.C. (COBI)
Main responsibilities: Conducting rapid appraisal in southern portion of the study area; elaboration of educational materials; technical field support; participation in subtidal monitoring and habitat analysis; organization of meetings with stakeholders; public policy outreach.
ProNatura Noroeste
Main responsibilities: Integrated Fisheries Management Plan for Bahía de los Ángeles; Regional Management Plan for the Leopard Grouper in the Northern Gulf; long term subtidal monitoring; technical field support; public policy outreach.