• Ph.D., Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, 1995,
  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  Minors: Applied Statistics and Botany
• M.S. Marine Sciences, 1989
  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• B.S. Biology, 1979
  Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico D.F

• Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems
• Biogeochemistry of Wetlands
• Landscape Modelling/Ecosystem Models,
• Coastal Management/Aquaculture

1) National Science Foundation/LTER Program. FCE/LTER - Florida Coastal Everglades. Subcontract with FIU. March 2000 to February 2006. Collaborator. $299,366. Funded

2 ) JPL-NASA. “Large scale assessment of landscape changes and recovery in forest structure of mangrove wetlands subject to human (shrimp mariculture, silviculture, agricultural chemicals), freshwater diversion, and natural disturbances (hurricanes, other severe storms, climate and sea level change) using enhanced Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data”. Co-Principal Investigator (2004-2007). $93, 000. Funded

3) LA Department of Natural Resources, Conceptual Ecological Models for Planning and Evaluating the Louisiana Coastal Area Restoration Plan. June 2002 to March 2005. Funded. $1,023,469. Co-Chair of Task #9: A Preliminary Report Describing Uncertainty Analysis of the CLEAR Model”, $27,561. Funded

4) “Nutrient and Carbon Fluxes at Different Spatial Scales in the Shark River Estuary Florida”. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Co-Principal Investigator, (2003) $90,486, Denied Funding.

5) South Florida Water Management District, Florida, SFWMD. “Evaluating the effect of hydroperiod and soil fertility on the productivity and structure of mangrove forests in South Florida: A Mesocosm Experiment USA. Co-Principal Investigator. (2005) $48,000, Accepted.

6) Sea Grant Program. Landscape Patterns of Denitrification in Marsh and Subtidal Sediments of Breton Sound During River-Pulsing Events Using Isotopic Methods. R. R. Twilley, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, C. Lindau. 2006-2007, 24 months, $149,456. Approved.

7) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Estuarine wetland control of nitrogen loading to Florida Bay. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy , R. R. Twilley, Stephen Davis. 2006-2008, 24 months, $236, 250. PI. Approved.

8) LSU Faculty Research Grant Program. Denitrification in Marsh and Mangrove soils: Testing the Role of Hydrogen Sulfide as a Soil Regulator. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy . 12 months. 2006-2007. $10,000 Approved.

9) South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Cesium-137 activity and bulk density analyses of soil cores in the freshwater Everglades region. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Ron Delaune , Robert R. Twilley. 2006-2007. 12 months. $50, 000. Approved

10) South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Assessing nutrient retention in the Taylor River region using hydrodynamic and mangrove models. Victor H. Rivera-Monroy , Robert R. Twilley, Emad Habib , Dr. Ehab Meselhe . 2007-2008. 24 Months. $150, 000. In Review.

11) National Council for Research and Technology-Mexico (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia-Mexico). Demandas Hidrologicas de los Ecosistemas Naturales en Mexico: Fase 1. Manuel Mass, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy , et al. 2007-2009. $500,000. In Review.

Funded During Last Five Years:

1) NBS/USGS, Everglades Restoration Program, “Interfacing the MANGAL Model with the Mangrove Research and Landscape Modelling Efforts of the Everglades Watershed”. Funded. Jan 2001 to December 2003. $175,000. Co-principal Investigador.

2) US Department of Energy, “ Restoration and rehabilitation of wetland ecosystems to sustain energy technologies in coastal environments” June 1999 to June 2002.Funded. $999,815. Data management and analysis of information. Supervision of technical personnel and graduate students.

3) USGS/NWRC, “Integrative Management and Rehabilitation of Mangrove Resources to Develop Sustainable Shrimp Mariculture in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras”, January 2000 to December 2001, PI/PD: Robert Twilley; Co-PI's: Victor Rivera-Monroy. $72,406. Coordination of field activities and analysis of information.

4) COLCIENCIAS, Colombia, “Structure and Function of a Mangrove Ecosystem Along a Trajectory following landscape-Level Disturbance. March 1998 to April 2001. Funded. $135,000. Design and implementation of field studies, supervision of graduate and undergraduate students and technical personnel.

5) USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, “Succession and biomass production of mangroves in the San Juan River, Venezuela: Implications to the modelling and management of coastal forested wetlands.” April 1996 to September 1998. Funded. $111,000. Implementation of soil nutrient study and collaboration in forest structure evaluation.

6) USCOE/Everglades National Park, “Evaluating the Response of Mangrove Wetlands to Alterations of Freshwater Flow in Everglades National Park”. June 1997 to September 1998. Funded. $148,000. Field support and statistical analyses of technical information. Developed a framework to build water salinity box models.

7) Everglades National Park. The Significance of Nutrient Redistribution and Regeneration to the Recovery of Mangrove Ecosystems of South Florida in Response to Hurricane Andrew. December 1993 to December 1995. $63,580. Developed a framework to build water salinity box models and contributed to the statistical analyses of information.

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., Twilley, R. R., Day, J. W., Boustany, R., Vera-Herrera, F., Ramirez, C. 1995. Direct denitrification in mangrove sediments in Terminos, Lagoon, Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series 126:97-109

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., Day, W. J., Twilley, R. R., Vera-Herrera, F., Coronado-Molina, C. 1995. Flux of nitrogen and sediment in a fringe mangrove forest in Terminos Lagoon, Mexico. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 40:139-160.

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., and Twilley, R. R. 1996. The role of denitrification and immobilization on the fate of inorganic nitrogen in mangrove sediments of Terminos, Lagoon, Mexico. Limnology and Oceanography. 41:284-296.

Twilley, R. R., Pozo, M., Garcia, V. H., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Zambrano, R., Bodero, A. 1997. Litter dynamics in riverine mangrove forests in the Guayas River estuary, Ecuador. Oecologia. 111:109-122

Pelegri, S.P., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, and R.R. Twilley. 1997. A comparison of nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) among three species of mangrove litter, sediments, and pneumatophores in south Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 356:73-79.

Day, J. W., Coronado-Molina, C., Vera-Herrera, F. R., Twilley, R., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Alvarez-Guillen, H. Day, R., Conner, W. A. 1997. A 7 year record of above-ground net primary production in a southeastern Mexican mangrove forest. Aquatic Botany 55:39-60.

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., Madden, C. J., Day, J. W., Twilley, R. R., Vera-Herrera, F. Alvarez-Guillen, H. 1998. Seasonal coupling of a tropical mangrove forest and an estuarine water column: enhancement of aquatic primary productivity. Hydrobiologia 379:41-53

Twilley, R. R., Gottfried, R. R, Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Zhang, W., Montaño-Armijos, M., Bodero, A. 1998. An Approach and preliminary model of integrating ecological and economic constrains of environmental quality in the Guayas River estuary, Ecuador. Environmental Science & Policy 1: 271-288

Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Torres, L. A., Bahamon, N., Newmark, F., Twilley, R. R. 1999. The potential use of mangrove forests as nitrogen sinks of shrimp aquaculture pond effluents: The role of denitrification. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 30:12-25

Twilley, R. R., V. H. Rivera-Monroy, R. Chen, y L. Botero. 1999. Adapting an ecological mangrove model to simulate trajectories in restoration ecology. Marine Pollution Bulletin 37:404-419.

Twilley, R. R., Chen, R., Rivera-Monroy, V. H. 1999. Formulating a model of mangrove succession in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico with emphasis on factors associated with global climate change. Current Topics in Wetland Biogeochemistry. 3: 118-141.

Childers, D. L., Davis, S. E., Twilley, R., Rivera-Monroy, V. H. 1999. Wetland-water colmn interactions and the Biogeochemistry of estuary-watershed coupling around the Gulf of Mexico. In: Biogeochemistry of the Gulf of Mexico Estuaries. Bianchi, T. S., Pennock, J. R., Twilley, R. R (eds.). John Wiley and Sons. New York. pp. 211-236.

Twilley, R. R., Cardenas, W. Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Espinoza, J., Suescum, R. Armijos, M. M., Solorzano, L. 2001. The Gulf of Guayaquil and the Guayas River Estuary, Ecuador. In: Seelinger, U., and Kjerfve, B. (eds). Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America. Ecological Studies, Vol 144. Speinger-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., R. Twilley, E. Medina, E. B. Moser, L. Botero, M. Rodriguez, E. Bullard. 2004. Spatial Variability of Soil Nutrients in Disturbed Riverine Mangrove Forests at Different Stages of Regeneration in the San Juan River Estuary, Venezuela. Estuaries 27: 44-57.

Rivera-Monroy, V. H ., R. Twilley , Bone, D., Childers, D. L., Coronado-Molina, C., Feller, I. C., Herrera-Silveira, J., Jaffe, R., Mancera, E., Rejmankova, E., Salisbury, J. E., Weil, E. 2004. A Conceptual Framework to Develop Long Term Ecological Research and Management Objectives in the Tropical Coastal Settings of the Wider Caribbean Region. BioScience 54: 843856-000 .

Twilley, R. R., and V. H. Rivera-Monroy. 2005. Developing Performance Criteria Using Simulation Models of Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration: A Case Study of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Journal of Coastal Research 40: 79-93.

Marc Simard, Keqi Zhang, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Michael Ross, Pablo Ruiz, Robert Twilley, Ernesto Rodriguez. 2006. 3D Mapping and Biomass Estimation of Mangroves of the Everglades with SRTM Elevation Data. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 72:299-311

Rivera-Monroy , V. H, Kim de Mutsert, Robert R. Twilley, Edward Castaneda , Melissa M. Romigh, Stephen E. Davis, II. . In Press . Patterns of Nutrient Exchange in a Riverine Mangrove Forest in the Shark River Estuary, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologica.

Ewe, S.E., Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn E. Gaiser, David Iwaniec, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Robert R. Twilley, Jim Fourqurean . 2006. . Spatial and temporal patterns of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER (2001-2004). Hydrobiologia 459:474.

Cardona-Olarte, P., R. R. Twilley , & K.W. Krauss & V. H. Rivera-Monroy. 2006. Responses of neotropical mangrove seedlings grown in monoculture and mixed culture under treatments of hydroperiod and salinity. Hydrobiologia 325-341.