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¿Cómo maximizamos nuestras contribuciones como científicos y servidores públicos?
Los científicos de STRI ofrecen información imparcial sobre ambientes tropicales, desde selvas tropicales hasta arrecifes de coral, para el bien público. Nuestra ciencia sirve a todos los sectores de la sociedad en los Estados Unidos, en Panamá, donde estamos ubicados, y en todo el trópico. Como una plataforma de investigación tropical de primer nivel, organizamos estudios a largo plazo a gran escala y convocamos a científicos de todo el mundo.
Como científico que dedicó su carrera a las instituciones públicas, creo que un servicio civil fuerte es la columna vertebral de una sociedad democrática. Los funcionarios públicos son los administradores de la información que sirve al bien público y garantizamos que el conocimiento y la capacidad institucional se conserven durante la transición política al más alto nivel del gobierno nacional.
Educación
1997 Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado
1976 BSc., Geology, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Publicaciones destacadas
Larsen, M.C., 2017, Forested watersheds, water resources, and ecosystem services, with examples from the United States, Panama, and Puerto Rico, In: Ahuja S. (ed.) Chemistry and water: the science behind sustaining the world's most crucial resource, p. 161-182, Elsevier, Amsterdam, ISBN: 978-0-12-809330-6.
Larsen, M.C., 2016, Contemporary human uses of tropical forested watersheds and riparian corridors: Ecosystem services and hazard mitigation, with examples from Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, Quaternary International, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.016.
Larsen M.C., 2014, Global change and water availability and quality: challenges ahead. In: Ahuja S. (ed.) Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification, vol. 1, p. 11-20. United States of America, Elsevier.
Larsen, M.C., 2012, Global change and water resources, where are we headed? Water Resources Impact, American Water Resources Association, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 3-7.
Larsen, M.C., 2012, Landslides and sediment budgets in four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, ch. F in Murphy, S.F., and Stallard, R.F., eds., Water quality and landscape processes of four watersheds in eastern Puerto Rico, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1789, p. 153-178.
Larsen, M.C., and Webb, R.M.T., 2009, Potential effects of runoff, fluvial sediment and nutrient discharges on the coral reefs of Puerto Rico, Journal of Coastal Research, v. 25, p. 189-208. ISSN 0749-0208.
Keefer, D.K., and Larsen, M.C., 2007, Assessing Landslide Hazards, Science, v. 316, p. 1136-1138.
Larsen, M.C., and Wieczorek, G.F., 2006, Geomorphic effects of large debris flows and flash floods, northern Venezuela, 1999, Tropical Geomorphology with Special Reference to South America, Latrubesse, Edgardo, ed., Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Suppl. Vol. 145, p. 147-175.
Larsen, M.C. and Santiago-Román, Abigail, 2001, Mass wasting and sediment storage in a small montane watershed: an extreme case of anthropogenic disturbance in the humid tropics, in Dorava, J. M., Palcsak, B.B., Fitzpatrick, F. and Montgomery, D., eds., Geomorphic Processes and Riverine Habitat, American Geophysical Union, Water Science & Application Series Volume 4, p. 119-138.
Larsen, M.C., 2000, Analysis of 20th century rainfall and streamflow to characterize drought and water resources in Puerto Rico, Physical Geography, v. 21, p. 494-521.
Larsen, M.C., Torres-Sánchez, A.J., and Concepción, I.M., 1999, Slopewash, surface runoff, and fine-litter transport in forest and landslide scars in humid-tropical steeplands, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 24, p. 481-502.
Brown, E. T., Stallard, R. F., Larsen, M. C., Bourlès, D. L., Raisbeck, G. M., and Yiou, F., 1998, Determination of predevelopment denudation rates of an agricultural watershed (Cayaguás River, Puerto Rico) using in situ-produced 10Be in river-borne quartz, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letterss, v. 160, p. 723-728.
Larsen, M.C., and Torres Sánchez, A.J., 1998, The frequency and distribution of recent landslides in three montane tropical regions of Puerto Rico, Geomorphology, v. 24, no. 4, p. 309-331.
Larsen, M.C. and Parks, J.E., 1997, How wide is a road? The association of roads and mass-wasting disturbance in a forested montane environment, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 22, p. 835-848.
