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OWSD Programmes

January 2024 OWSD Award
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Awards

July 2010 Fundación Carolina Scholarship

August 2011 Formación del Profesorado Universitario Spanish national scholarship

September 2014 Ayuda Complementaria de Estancia Breve Spanish Government

July 2014 Best student oral presentation in the IMBER Future Oceans Conference

October 2015 Young Investigator award Mote Symposium
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Asturias Marine Observatory - University of Oviedo

Degrees:

2015
Doctorate     Biological Systems and Organisms
The Doctorate Degree topic was on socioecology
2011
Master     Biological Systems and Organisms
2010
Undergraduate     Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Rivera A.*, San Martin J. & J. Myton. Transitioning to co-management in Caribbean reef fisheries: Tela Bay case study. Sustainability Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00922-1
Rivera A.*, Gelcich S., García-Flórez L. & JL. Acuña. (2019). Social attributes can drive or deter the sustainability of bottom-up management systems. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.323.
Rivera, A.*, Gelcich, S., García-Flórez, L., & Acuña, J. L. (2017). Heterogeneous management and conservation perceptions within the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias (N. Spain). Marine Policy, 81, 229- 235. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.020.
Rivera, A.*, Unibazo, J., Leon, P., Vásquez-Lavín, F., Ponce, R., Mansur, L., & Gelcich, S. (2017). Stakeholder perceptions of enhancement opportunities in the Chilean small and medium scale mussel aquaculture
industry. Aquaculture, 479, 423-431. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.06.015.
Rivera, A.*, Gelcich S., García-Flórez L. & JL. Acuña. 2016. Incorporating landscape-metrics in invertebrate fisheries management: case study of the gooseneck barnacle in Asturias (N. Spain). ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI: : https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw029.
Rivera, A.*, Gelcich S., García-Flórez L. & JL. Acuña. 2016. Trends, drivers and lessons from a long-term data series of the Asturian (Northern Spain) gooseneck barnacle territorial use rights system. Bulletin of Marine Science. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5343/bms.2015.1080.
Rivera, A.*, Gelcich S., García-Flórez L. & JL. Acuña. 2016. Assessing the sustainability and adaptive capacity of the gooseneck barnacle co-management system in Asturias, N. Spain. AMBIO: 1-11. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0687-z.
Rivera, A.*, Gelcich, S., García-Flórez L., Alcázar, J. & J.L. Acuña. 2014. Co-management in Europe: Insights from the gooseneck barnacle fishery in Asturias, Spain. Marine Policy 50: 300-308. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.07.011.
Rivera, A.*, Weidberg N, Pardiñas AF, González-Gil R, García-Flórez L, et al. 2013. Role of Upwelling on Larval Dispersal and Productivity of Gooseneck Barnacle Populations in the Cantabrian Sea: Management Implications. PLoS ONE. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078482.
Geiger, K., Rivera, A.... & J. Acuña. (2022). Coping with poachers in European stalked barnacle fisheries: Insights from a stakeholder workshop. Marine Policy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104826