Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands

The Center for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands - ESMOI is a research center of excellence that bases its work on 4 fundamental axes: 1) frontier research, 2) training of young scientists, 3) formation of national and international collaboration networks, and 4) connection with the national and international sectors.

The goal of ESMOI is "to generate the scientific basis necessary for a strategy of sustainable management and conservation of marine ecosystems associated with seamounts and oceanic islands from Chile and the Pacific, contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals." 

Mision

Support decision-making in the management and conservation of oceanic islands marine ecosystems based on the development of transdisciplinary research with a collaborative approach with local communities.

Vision

To be a center of excellence that develops transdisciplinary research in the South Pacific for decision-making in the management and conservation of Oceanic Islands, with a unique model integrating land and sea, and considering island societies and cultures as a key element, within a context of climate change.

Learn about the expeditions we had aboard the Falkor (too)

News

Last papers

Gaymer, C. F., Wagner, D., Álvarez-Varas, R., et al. Research advances and conservation needs for the protection of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A natural and cultural heritage hotspot in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. 

Marine Policy, 171, 106453

Morales‐Serrano, N., & Gonzalez‐Pestana  A. Identification of the first nursery area of the Galápagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) in the south‐east Pacific Ocean. 

Journal of Fish Biology, 106:1008-1013 

Pardo-Gandarillas, M. C., Carrasco, S. A., Varela, A. I., & Ibáñez, C. M. Systematic and biogeography of two sympatric octopuses from the remote Juan Fernández Archipelago, South Pacific Ocean. 

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 1-22.

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