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Dahiana Arcila is a marine biologist and curator of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She received her bachelor’s degree from Universidad del Quindío in Colombia and received her PhD at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2012. She served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Institution’s National History Museum in Washington, D.C. and at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Scripps Oceanography in 2023, she was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma.
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Dahiana Arcila is a marine biologist and curator of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. She received her bachelor’s degree from Universidad del Quindío in Colombia and received her PhD at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2012. She served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Institution’s National History Museum in Washington, D.C. and at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Scripps Oceanography in 2023, she was an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Read the profile: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/scientists-life-dahiana-arcila
Research profile: https://dkarcila.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/










