Víctor Hugo Morales
Venezuela
Tropical Forestry
Victor is the professor of Tropical Forestry for third-year students, and he oversees the Forestry Scenario of the Work Experience and Professional Experience courses. He also leads the Center for Geomatics and Remote Detection and the long-term agroforestry trial based on F1 hybrids of Coffea arabica (Esperanza L4A5). He is a Forest Engineer (ULA-Venezuela), he holds a Master’s of Science in Forest Management with an emphasis on Forest Genetic Improvement (CEFAP-ULA-Venezuela) and is a doctoral candidate for the postgraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Costa Rica. He has experience in forest inventory, environmental management of projects, precision forestry with drones and spatial data management-analysis (geo-statistics).
His educational philosophy is based on the creation of opportunities that allow the student to obtain new skills, knowledge, and behaviors (significant learning), through experimentation.