Elvira Vergara

Orderly and focused researcher dedicated to innovative, dynamic and organized work. Successful at maintaining accuracy and productivity through long and short-term projects with proven history of efficiency. Extensive knowledge of Environmental Sciences research and skill in finding additional funding for projects.

• September 2023 SETAC LATIN AMERICA 15TH BIENNIAL MEETING, SETAC LA, Montevideo Uruguay. Speaker in oral presentation
• July 2023 XVI NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ICHTHIOLOGY, Viña del Mar, Chile. Poster exhibitor.
• July 2022 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MERCURY AS A GLOBAL POLLUTANT, Minamata Convention on Mercury, Virtual. Oral speaker.
• March 2022 INTERNATIONAL COURSE “DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PROGRAMS” led by Dr. Kelly Munkittrick, University of Calgary.
• June 2021 TALK IN “ACTIVITIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT MONTH”, Colegio Santa María de La Florida, Santiago, Chile.
• May 2019 XXXIX CONGRESS OF MARINE SCIENCES, Chilean Society of Marine Sciences, Arturo Prat University, Iquique, Chile. Oral presentation speaker.
• June 2018 RESEARCH INTERNSHIP “Techniques for speciation and detection of total mercury and methylmercury in environmental matrices.” Ph.D. Nelson O'Driscoll laboratory, K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada. Competitor.
• January 2018 SUMMER SCHOOL “Influence of the landscape on aquatic ecology, the fate and environmental effects of mercury in Chilean Patagonia”, MERI Foundation and Acadia University, Melimoyu Natural Reserve, Chile. Competitor.
• December 2017 II SYMPOSIUM ON MARINE MAMMALS STUDIES IN CHILE, Panthalassa, La Serena, Chile. Poster Exhibitor.
• October 2017 IX LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, INACH/University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. Oral presentation speaker.
• September 2017 SETAC LATIN AMERICA 12TH BIENNIAL MEETING, SETAC LA, Santa Cecilia University, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Oral presentation speaker.
• January 2017 STABLE ISOTOPES COURSE: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS IN NATURAL SCIENCES, Summer School, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile. Competitor.
• November 2016 IV CONFERENCE ON TOXICOLOGY 2016, Society of Toxicology of Chile, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile. Poster Exhibitor.
• December 2014 IV COLOMBIAN CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY, Colombian Association of Zoology and SOLAMAC, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Video-conference speaker.
• May 2014 XXXIV CONGRESS OF MARINE SCIENCES, Chilean Society of Marine Sciences, University of Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile. Poster Exhibitor.

• Risk map of human intake of methylmercury through fish consumption in Latin America and the Caribbeans, Elvira Vergara, Floria Pancetti, Liliana Zuñiga et al., 04/10/22, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2026724/v1
• Trace and rare earth elements in excreta of two species of marine mammals from South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, José E. Celis, Winfred Espejo, Gustavo Chiang, Daiki Kitamura, Elvira Vergara, Shosaku Kashiwada, Nelson J. O'Driscoll, 2022, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 183, 114095
• Presence of organochlorine pollutants in fat and scats of pinnipeds from the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, and their relationship to trophic position, E.G. Vergara, V. Hernández, K.R. Munkittrick, R. Barra, C. Galban-Malagon, G. Chiang, 2019, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 685, 1276-1283