International Symposia in Fisheries Ecology		Eminent Scholars
	Undergraduate Summer Internships		Visiting Scholars

Dr. Orensanz, who grew up by the Argentinean seashore, trained first as a zoologist at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. His early years of academic life were devoted to the study of the marine invertebrate fauna, mostly polychaete worms, of the southwestern Atlantic. Later, he became involved with the assessment and management of small artisanal fisheries on benthic stocks.

By the late 1970s, Dr. Orensanz was forced to leave his country during the last military regime. He moved to the United States and pursued a second doctoral degree at the University of Washington School of Fisheries. While studying and later working as a research scientist at UW, he became active with the conservation and management of benthic fisheries in the Pacific Northwest region. He also participated in the implementation of territorial fishing rights of Chilean benthic fisheries and in conservation issues of the benthic fisheries in Argentine Patagonia. In April 2000, he returned to Argentina as research scientist at CONICET--the Argentine Council for Science and Technology. Dr. Orensanz is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation (2000).