José Ramiro Suárez Soruco (born March 16, 1939, in

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) was executive president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos ( YPFB) during the government of

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. He has held a range of leadership and research positions throughout the southern cone, working for YPFB, the

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, and a range of companies and national governments. Since 1988 he is a member of the Bolivian National Academy of Sciences. A widely published researcher, Suarez is an expert on

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, invertebrate

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, wild life sanctuaries, and

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. Among other distinctions in 1997 he received the Robert Dott Memorial Award from the

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. Between 1965 and 1968 Suarez was an assistant of

and

in the

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. In 1969 he was a professor of

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in the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. In 1970, he was an educational investigator of OAS at the University of Santiago in Chile. Between 1976 and 1980 Suarez was a professor of

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

in the Universidad Gabriel René Moreno,

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Bolivia; between 1978 and 1979 professor of biology, and since 2000 occupied a professorship of geology in the environmental engineering area of the Universidad Católica Boliviana in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He founded the

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Natural History Museum in Cochabamba, and intensively collaborated the first years of its operation among some volunteers and friends of nature. Later on the museum has been relied to the public university administration. Today he is retired from geology, petroleum and business activities, but he still researches human evolution and astronomy. He lives in Cochabamba.

References

AAPG Robert Dott Memorial Award

Academia Nacional de Ciencias site

Presidencia de Bolivia

IFEA Fosiles and Facies de Bolivia

Museo Alcides D'Orbingy

External links

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