OSCAR GOMEZ

Dynamic Environmental Specialist with a strong background in contaminated site remediation and team leadership for ecological restoration. Demonstrated expertise in environmental risk assessment and strategic planning, resulting in the development of effective environmental strategies that improved ecosystem service evaluation and compliance across various sectors.

• Conceptual models in the Amazon environment. September 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oscar-gomez-4932398b_el-agua-elementoclave- de-los-modelos-conceptuales-activity-6822913126229438464-s54W
• Peruvian Amazon rainforest: Vision for strategic environmental planning. July 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oscar-g%C3%B3mez-oscar-gomez/
• T Vegas-Vilarrúbia, F Baritto, P López, G Meleán, ME Ponce, L Mora, O Gómez (2010) Tropical Histosols of the lower Orinoco Delta, features and preliminary quantification of their carbon storage. Geoderma 155: 280-288.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., Ponce ML, Gómez, O. & Mora, L. (2007) Wetland vegetation of the lower Orinoco Delta Plain (Venezuela): A preliminary approach. AMAZONIAN. XIX (3/4). 35-61.
• Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., López P., Baritto, F., Melán, G., Ponce ML & Gómez, O. (2006). Vegetation – soils relationships in a wetland area of the Orinoco Delta Plain (Venezuela) – In: Brebbia, CA (ed): Environmental problems in coastal regions VI: Including oil and chemical spill studies. Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 88. Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst, Southampton, UK.
• Teresa Vegas-Vilarrúbia, Maria E. Ponce, Oscar Gómez, Luis Mora, Pedro Vallejo (2003). Physiognomy and diversity as related to key environmental variables in wetland forests from the lower Orinoco delta (Venezuela). Journal of Vegetation Science. considered for publication under no. JVS 2936-March 2003.
• Gómez, Oscar. (2000). Geographic Information Systems in Strategic Liability Management Planning.Environmental in the National Oil Industry. V National ESRI Users Conference. Caracas Venezuela.
• Gómez, O and E. Medina (1998). The vegetation distribution patterns from a Landsat-5 TM image along the SanJuan river (Monagas State), Venezuela. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 19:1017-1020.
• Gómez, O. and Baldasano, JM (1998). Biogenic VOC Emission Inventory for Catalonia, Spain. EUROTRAC-2 (Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere) Symposium '98. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 1998.
• Gómez, Oscar. (1998). Estimation of emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds of terrestrial origin for Catalonia. Doctoral Thesis. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Barcelona, Spain.
• Gómez, Oscar. (1992). Determination of the CO2 flux and the concentration of microbial biomass in the soil and in the litter in a chronosequence of Teak (Tectona grandis) stands in the Ticoporo Forest Reserve, Edo. Barinas, Venezuela. Degree thesis. School of Biology. Science Faculty. Central University of Venezuela

• Environmental lessons learned from an oil spill - REMTECH 2014. September, 2024
• International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC). 2024. New Orleans. USA
• Environmental Remediation. Undergraduate course in Environmental Impact Assessment. National University of San Marcos, Museum of Natural History. April 2022. (Guest professor)
• Remediation of sites contaminated by hydrocarbons in remote areas. PROFONANPE. February 2022
• Bioremediation in sites contaminated with hydrocarbons. National University of San Marcos, Museum of Natural History. August 2021. (Guest speaker)
• Environmental management of sites impacted by oil activity in the jungle. National University of San Juan Marcos, Dean of American Museum of Natural History. September 2020. (Guest speaker)
• International Course “Petroleum Industry and Environmental Remediation Experiences in Peru”, National University Federico Villarreal. Faculty of Geographic, Environmental and Ecotourism Engineering. Specialized Institute for Water Research and Management. July 2020. (Exhibitor)
• Technical Conference. Management of sites impacted by oil activity. College of Engineers of Peru.
• Chapter of Health and Environmental Engineering. October 17, 2019
• Business Environmental Management Systems – VENAMCHAM (Venezuelan-American Chamber), July 2015
• Sustainable Cities, a possible but conditioned future. CAVENAL (Venezuelan-German Chamber) – IESA June 2015
• Lessons Learned in SEA: The Orinoco oil belt at Venezuela. IAIA 2013. Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
• Presentation at ASOVAC (November 2012) on strategic planning for the Orinoco Belt
• Presentation at the 1st Venezuelan Congress of Science, Technology and Innovation (September 2012)
• Presentation on Environmental Public Policies at the Bicentenaria University of Aragua, school of Public Administration (July 2012)
• Presentation of environmental strategies for the Orinoco Belt at the Faculty of Sciences Sanitation Conference, UCV. (April, 2012)
• Strategic Environmental Planning, February and April 2012. (Bolivarian University of Venezuela)

• MUTIS Scholarship, Awarded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) for Doctorate studies in Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 1994-1997
• Educational credit from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation. Venezuela. 1997, to complete doctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). (www.fgma.gov.ve)
• Master´s study scholarship from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. June 1997-March 1998 (www.upc.es)
• Scholarship for summer studies at the Menéndez Pelayo University (www.uimp.es)

• Best Presentation at the V National ESRI Users Conference. Organized by ESRI of Venezuela. Caracas. October 2000 (www.esri.com)