Jorge Ortiz, Ph. D.

Jorge Ortiz

Education

B.S. Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. 1991
Ph.D. Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder. 1998.

Ecosystem Process and Function
Tropical limnology, carbon and nitrogen cycling in tropical rivers and estuaries, ecohydrology of urban rivers, and environmental education.

Scatena, F.N., Ortiz-Zayas, J.R., and Blanco-Libreros, J.F. 2008. Helping HELP with limited resources: The Luquillo experience. Water South Africa (Special HELP Edition). 34 (4): 1-7. Available at website www.wrc.org.za.
Blanco, J.F., Vera, A., and Ortiz-Zayas, J.R. 2007. The influence of teleconnections on rainfall variability in southwestern Puerto Rico. In UNESCO, 2007 - V Conferencia Mundial FRIEND, La Habana, Cuba, 2006 - Impactos Hidrológicos de la Variabilidad y el Cambio Climático, Selección de trabajos de América Latina y el Caribe. Documento Técnico PHI - LAC, Nº 11.
Ortiz-Zayas, J.R., Cuevas, E., Mayol-Bracero, O.L., Donoso, L., Trebs, I., Figueroa-Nieves, D., McDowell, W.H. 2006. Urban influences on the nitrogen cycle in Puerto Rico. Biogeochemistry 79 (1-2): 109-133.
Martinelli, L.A., Howarth, R., Cuevas, E., Filoso, S., Austin, A., Donoso, L., Huzsar, V., Keeney, D., Llerena, C., McIssac, G., Medina, E. Ortiz-Zayas, J.R., Scavia, S., Schindler, D.W., Soto, D. Towsend, A. 2006. The origin and fate of nitrogen in Latin America and the Caribbean. Biogeochemistry 79 (1-2): 3-24.
Ortiz-Zayas, J.R. Lewis, W.M., Jr., Saunders, J.F., III, Scatena, F.N., McCutchan, J.M. 2005. The metabolism of a tropical rainforest stream. Journal of the Northamerican Benthological Society: 24(4): 769-783.

Phone:
(787)764-0000 xt. 3629
Email:
jorgeortiz_ites@yahoo.com | jorgeortiz.ites@gmail.com
Web Page:
http://www.luquillohelp.upr.edu/
Postal Address:
Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies
PO Box 21910
University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
San Juan, PR 00931