Adriana N. Figueroa Marrero

• Create awareness in educating about the importance of conservation efforts in different marine species.
• Give educational tours to schools, families and universities.

Presenting a clinical case on otitis media and cutaneous mycosis in a Caribbean manatee, highlighting diagnostic challenges, treatment approaches, and implications for conservation medicine.

• Role of leadership in student activities encouraging marine conservation as well as manage all on-going and future activity resources.

Hands-on experience in marine mammal care, focusing on behavioral training, enrichment, routine health assessments, and veterinary procedures for dolphins, sea lions and manatees. Emphasized animal welfare, teamwork, and conservation practices.

• 80 experienced hours on field with a Veterinarian.
• Experiences on darting, animal management, surgery, on call animal emergencies and rhino conservation.
• Animal experience included: cheetah microchipping, rhino dehorning, baboon relocation, elephant husbandry, nyala relocation and more.

• Assist in food preparation and supplements for patients such as birds, sea turtles, and manatees.
• Assist in veterinary examinations.
• Intensive care management in newly manatee calf admitted patients.
• Perform necropsies and recollection of samples.

• Assist on the coordination of activities to benefit learning in the veterinary field such as: Shelter volunteering, coastal cleanup and educational webinars.
• Manage the association account with responsibility