Question

8. Eugenia Maria del Pino studied biology (1 point)

Answer 1

The answer is only in Ecuador

Answer 2

Which of the following is/are a native species in the Galapagos ISLANDS?

The answer is B)waved albatross

Eugenia Maria del Pino studied biology in the United States and Ecuador.

(Del Pino was born and grew up in Quito, Ecuador. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito in 1967. She then studied in the United States at Vassar College, where she earned a master of science degree in 1969. Later, she completed her doctoral work in biology at Emory University in 1972. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she returned to Ecuador and joined the faculty at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito, where she began her studies years before. At her return to Ecuador after her doctoral studies, she chose a local frog species to study that at the time lived in the gardens of the university in Quito. She studied the reproductive and developmental adaptations of this frog in comparison with other tropical frogs. Early in her career, she became interested in education for conservation of the Galápagos Archipelago. She helped the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galápagos Islands in the establishment of a program of scholarships for Ecuadorian students in the Galápagos Islands. She served as vice president of the Charles Darwin Foundation for several years in the 1990s. Del Pino has been a biology professor since 1972. She served as Head of Biological Sciences from 1973–1975, and with a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she did research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1984–1985. She was also a Fulbright Fellow at the laboratory of Professor Joseph Gall at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1990 and was the first Ecuadorian citizen to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006. Her work for the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galápagos Islands and her position as the only Ecuadorian citizen to have achieved international recognition in science has made her a figure of national importance in Ecuador.)