Manuel A. Iturralde Vinent

Birthday July, 10, 1946. Place Cienfuegos city, Cienfuegos, Cuba

WORKING PLACE

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Obispo No. 61, Plaza de Armas, La Habana Vieja 10100, Cuba,

Phone: (537) 863 9361 ext 113. Email: iturralde@mnhnc.inf.cu, maiv_cu@yahoo.doc

DEGREE

Geologist, Universidad de Oriente, Cuba, 1975

Ph.D, Instituto Superior Politécnico J. A. Echeverría, 1995

SCIENTIFIC POSITION

· Senior researcher, National Museum of Natural History, Cuba

· Senior professor, Higher Polytechnic Institute J.A. Echeverría

· Academician of the Cuban Academy of Sciences

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INSTITUTION	Position	Years
Grupo Espeleológico Martell	Founder	1959-present
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos	Micropaleontologists	1964-1967
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos	Head of the Geology Department	1966-1967
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos	Head of the Group for Quality Control of Investigations	1967-1970
Instituto Superior Politécnico "J. A. Echeverría"	Assistent Professor	1971-1972
Depto. de Geología, Universidad de Oriente	Assistent Professor	1973-1974
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba	Researcher	1976-1982
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba	Leader of the Havana mapping Project	1975-1977
Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba	Leader of the Camaguey mapping Project	1977-1982
Ministerio de Industria Básica	Leader of the German-Cuban Prospecting Group	1982-1987
UNESCO Headquarters	Member of the Scientific Board of the UNESCO Geological Correlation Program	1992-1997
Instituto Superior Politécnico "J. A. Echeverría"	Adjunto Señor Professor	1987-present
Museo Nacional Historia Natural	Senior Researcher	1988-present
Association of Geoscientists for International Development AGID	Member of the Council	1996-2000
American Museum of Natural History, New York	Research Associate	1997-present

RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT

Subject	Institution	Year
Hidrogeological and engineering geological studies	National Institute of Hidraulic Resources	1964-1970
Leader of Mapping projects in Habana and Camaguey	Institute of Geology and Paleontology	1976-1982
Leader of Geological Prospecting in Central Cuba	Ministry of Basic Industry	1983-1987
IGCP Project 165 Geological Correlation of the Caribbean	Institute of Geology and Paleontology	1982-1985
IGCP Project 262 Tethyan Cretaceous Correlation	Institute of Geology and Paleontology	1982-1985
IGCP Project 302 Paleogene of South América	Natural History Museum	1990-1993
IGCP Project 322 Jurassic of Latin America	Natural History Museum	1991-1995
IGCP Project 364 Caribbean ophiolites and volcanic arcs	Natural History Museum	1993-1997
Origin of Antillean Land Vertebrates	Natural History Museum and American Museum of Natural History	1990-1999
The K/T boundary in Cuba	Natural History Museum and University of Tokio	1997-2001
Land Paleobiota of the Greater Antilles	Natural History Museum	2000-2004
Hunting Antillean Land Vertebrates, I.	National Geographic Society	1999-2000
Hunting Antillean Land Vertebrates, II.	National Geographic Society	2001-2002
IGCP Project 433 Caribbean Plate Tectonics	UNESCO/IUGS	2000-2004
Cuban Geology and Plate tectonics	Cuban Ministry of Science	2006-2011

INTERNACIONAL EVENTS

· 1960-1995: International Congress of the Cuban Speleological Society

· 1966-1999: Caribbean Geological Conferences (submitted abstracts not participating)

· 1982: International Quaternary Congress (INQUA), Moscow

· 1987: 24 International Geological Congress

· 1989: First Cuban Geological Congress (organizing committee)

· 1991: Workshop on the western Caribbean geology, Moa

· 1992: 13 Caribbean Geological Conference, Cuba (organizing committee)

· 1993: Workshop on the western Caribbean geology, Dominican Republic

· 1993: AAPG Annual Congress, New Orleans

· 1993: III Rudist International Symposium, Mexico

· 1994: Field meeting of IGCP Project 364, Jamaica

· 1995: Workshop of the Italian-Venezuelan-Cuban about ophiolites, Cuba and Venezuela

· 1995: 14 Caribbean Geological Congress, Trinidad & Tobago

· 1995: First SEMP Congress, Sn. Pete Beach, USA

· 1995: Workshop to the geology of western Cuba (organizing committee)

· 1995: GSA Annual Congress, New Orleans

· 1996: Annual Congress of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New York

· 1996: International Dinosaur Symposium Dinofest, Arizona

· 1996: Workshop of Antillean Biogeography, Washington, DC

· 1996: Workshop of the group PLATES, Austin, Texas

· 1996: Cuban Geographic Society Congress, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba

· 1996: IGCP Project 364, Workshop on eastern Cuba, Cuba

· 1997: IGCP Project 364, Workshop on Dominican Republic

· 1997: International Convention on Environment, Cuba

· 1997: Annual field workshop of the project 393, Vic, España

· 1997: III Symposium of Zoological Society, La Habana

· 1998: Workshop on Biodiversity and Conservation, Cuba

· 1998: III Cuban Geological and Mining Congress, La Habana (Organizing committee)

· 1999: Penrose Conference on the marine Eocene-Oligocene transition, Olympia, USA

· 2000: 31 International Geological Congress, Brazil

· 2001: IV Geological and Mining Congress, La Habana (Organizing committee).

· 2001: GSA Annual Congress, Boston.

· 2002: IGCP Project 433 Field workshop on the Motagua zone, Guatemala.

· 2002: 16 Caribbean Geological Conference and IGCP Project 433, Barbados.

· 2003: V Congreso Cubano de Geología y Minería, y Field meeting of IGCP Project 433, Cuba

· 2003: 18 Latin-American Geological Colloquium, Freiberg, Germany

· 2003: VI International Convention on Environment and Development, La Habana, Cuba

· 2003: VI Iberoamerican Congress of Environmental Education, La Habana, Cuba

· 2003: MarCuba Congress of Marine Sciences, La Habana, Cuba

· 2004: Field Workshop of the IGCP Project 433, Costa Rica

· 2004: Primera Convención de Geociencias de la Unión Nacional de Arquitectos e Ingenieros de la Construcción, La Habana. (Invited speaker)

· 2004: 32 International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy. (Invited speaker)

· 2005: First Cuban Earth Science Convention (Vicepresident and Scientific Secretary), La Habana, Cuba.

· 2005: VI Cuban Convention on Environment and Development (Invited speaker), La Habana, Cuba.

· 2006: Workshop on Origin of Antillean Biodiversity, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (Invited Speaker)

· 2006: Annual Meeting of the European Geophysical Union, Austria (Invited Speaker)

· 2007: Symposium on Paleontology, Opening Ceremony of the P. J. Bermúdez Laboratory, Caracas, Venezuela (Invited Speaker)

· 2007: II Cuban Earth Science Convention (Organizer committee)

· 2008: Year of Planet Earth, Global Launch Event, Paris, France

· 2008: 13^th Caribbean Geological Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (oral presentation)

· 2008: Year of Planet Earth, Latin-American Launch Event, Brasilia, Brazil (Invited Speaker)

PROFESIONAL SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP

· Cuban Speleological Society, 1959--present

· Cuban Geological Society, 1979--present

· Paleontological Society of America, 1967--1969 y 1991--2003

· Association of Geoscientists for International Development (AGID), since 1991

· Geological Society of America, 1993--2003

· Mexican Paleontological Society, 1995--2003

· Dominican Geological Society, 1996-present

· Jamaican Geological Society, 1997-present

· Cuban Zoological Society, 1999-present

· Society of Cuban Engineers and Architects, 1999-present

SPECIALTY

· Geology, Paleontology and Plate Tectonics of the Caribbean, Environmental Geology and Karstology.

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS

· State Order "Carlos J. Finlay" for life scientific achievements, year 2003

· Medal "Juan Tomás Roig" for more than 40 years of scientific research, year 2005

· Scientific award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences year 1997, 2006, 2007

· Medal 50 Anniversary of the Cuban Speleological Society

· Medal "Antonio Calvache Dorado" of the Cuban Geological Society

· Medal "Laureado de las Ciencias" of the Scientific Union of Cuba

· Medal 10 Anniversary A.N. Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Men

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