Jorge Velez-Juarbe

Associate Curator · Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · company speakers →

Jorge Vélez-Juarbe is a vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator of Marine Mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His research integrates paleontology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology to investigate the deep-time history of marine mammals and other vertebrates, with particular emphasis on the origins of aquatic adaptations, island evolution, and Neogene marine ecosystems. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the Caribbean, North and South America, and his work has led to the description of numerous fossil taxa, including extinct sirenians, cetaceans, and other marine and terrestrial vertebrates. Through his research he explores how marine mammals evolved and how past environmental change has shaped marine biodiversity over millions of years.

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