Ximena Boza Noriega

Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center
Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab
24 Colovos Road
Durham, New Hampshire 03824

Ximena Boza Noriega was born and raised in Panama City, Panama. She did her B.Sc. in Marine Biology in College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA and a earned a Chevening scholarship to do a M.Sc. in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre in the University of Southampton, UK. After her master's, she moved to a remote Caribbean island in the province of Bocas del Toro in Panama, to work as a research technician III for Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). She is currently a GEBCO scholar and seeks to broaden her experience and skills in data collection and processing, coding, and mapping, as well expand her professional network for future potential collaborations. Her hobbies include exercise and water sports such as surfing and paddling, skiing, and traveling to new and exotic places.