Sacha Lozano, MSc

My current work encompasses education, outreach, and applied research focused on water and soil management in coastal watersheds, specifically in agricultural areas. I conducted scientific research in coral reef ecology for six years between 1998 and 2004. Since 2004, my professional interests and academic background have expanded to include a broader range of topics and disciplines. Currently, I work with farmers on the central coast of California, helping them integrate conservation practices into their production systems to prevent contamination of aquifers and surface waters near the sea, and to increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change. In my current position (since 2012), I have contributed to the development and implementation of soil conservation programs and climate change mitigation efforts in California, and have also participated in spatial analysis and economic valuation of ecosystem services and aquifer recharge projects.

• 2012 – Presente Program Manager – Conservation in Agriculture and Rural Landscapes. Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County (RCDSCC). Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
• 2007 – 2012 Program Coordinator – Multicultural Education for Resource Issues Threatening Oceans (MERITO). NOAA Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS). Monterey, CA, USA.
• 2005 – 2007 Maestría en Manejo de Recursos Naturales con énfasis en Diseño Ecológico. University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA. Titulo de la Tesis: “An Ecological Design Approach to Wastewater Management”. Supervisor: Dr. John Todd.
• 2002 – 2003 Research Fellow – Marine Ecology Program. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Panama. STRI Advisors: Dr. Ross Robertson and Dr. Hector Guzman.
• 1999 – 2002 Asistente de Investigación Grupo de Ecología de Arrecifes Coralinos. Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
• 1993 – 1999    Pregrado en Biología Marina, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Tesis Laureada. Supervisor: Dr. Fernando Zapata

1. Beganskas, S., K.S. Young, A.T. Fisher, R. Harmon, S. Lozano. 2019. Runoff Modeling of a Coastal Basin to Assess Variations in Response to Shifting Climate and Land Use: Implications for Managed Recharge. Water Resources Management 33(5). DOI: 10.1007/s11269-019-2197-4
2. Spinelli, G.M., Lozano, S., Ramos, M. (2018). The use of tensiometers as a decision support tool in irrigation scheduling for strawberry production in the Pajaro Valley, California. Innovative Techniques in Agriculture, Volume 2, Issue 5.
3. Spinelli, G.M., Lozano, S. (2018). A Weather‐Based Irrigation Scheduling Tool For Strawberry Production In The Pajaro Valley, California. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch. Volume 3, Issue 2
4. Spinelli, G.M., Cahn, M.D. Lozano, S., Lockhart, T. (2018). Irrigation System Distribution Uniformity Evaluations in the Pajaro Valley, California. Agricultural Research & Technology: Open Access Journal, Volume 14, Issue 4.
5. Spinelli, G.M., Lozano, S. (2018). Results from the Performance‐based Incentive for Conservation in Agriculture program in strawberry production in the Pajaro Valley, California. International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research, Volume 04, Issue 2.
6. A.T. Fisher, S. Lozano, S. Beganskas, E. Teo, K. Young, W. Weir, R. Harmon. Regional Managed Aquifer Recharge and Runoff Analyses in Santa Cruz and northern Monterey Counties, California. http://www.rcdsantacruz.org/managed-aquifer-recharge
7. Schmidt, R., Lozano, S., Robins, J., Schwartz, A., Batker, D. 2015. Nature’s Value in Santa Cruz County. Earth Economics, Tacoma, WA & the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County, Capitola, CA.
8. Lozano, S. 2008. “An Ecological Design Approach to Wastewater Management”. Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 141. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/141
9. Lozano, S and F.A. Zapata. 2003. Short term temporal patterns of recruitment of coral reef fishes in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Marine Biology 142:399-409
10. Lozano, S. 2002. Influence of tidal currents on reef-fish population replenishment at Coibita island, Pacific Panama. Marine Publications, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Panama