Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION
Syracuse University – Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, USA
Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (2021)
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Neogene drainage evolution in the northern Andes and its implications on biodiversity”

Universidad de los Andes – Departamento de Geociencias, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
B.Sc. Geosciences (2017)
Minor in Biology (2017)

FELLOWSHIPS / ACADEMIC HONORS
PhD
• Research Excellence Dissertation Fellowship – Syracuse University, 2020–2021
• Summer Dissertation Fellowship – Syracuse University, 2020
• Graduate Student Fellowship – Syracuse University, 2017–2019

Undergraduate
• 3–month Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship – Cornell University, 2016
• Ramon de Zubiria Academic Distinction* – Universidad de los Andes, 2016
• 3–month Short-term Fellowship – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 2015
• 1–month Summer Internship – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2014
• Ramon de Zubiria Academic Distinction* – Universidad de los Andes, 2014
• Alberto Magno Scholarship (80% undergraduate tuition discount) – Universidad de los Andes, 2011–2016
*Best GPA in Geosciences undergraduate program at Universidad de los Andes

RESEARCH GRANTS
PhD
• 2020 AGeS Awards in Geochronology – Geological Society of America $9,000
• 2020 Central New York Association of Professional Geologists (CNYAPG) $1,000
• 2020 Summer Research Fellowship – Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University $2,250
• 2019 Geo.X (Germany) Travel Grant for Early Career Scientists $2,500
• 2019 Summer Research Fellowship – Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University $2,200
• 2019 Banco de la República (Colombia) – Fundación para la promoción de la investigación y la tecnología (COP $17.850.000) $5,950
• 2019 Graduate Student Research Grant – Geological Society of America $1,875
• 2018 Summer Research Fellowship – Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University $2,500
• 2018 National Geographic Society – Early Career Grant $9,520
• 2018 American Association of Petroleum Geologist – Grants in Aid $2,750

Undergraduate
• 2017 Imagery grant – DigitalGlobe Foundation (access to high resolution satellite imagery)
• 2015 Fondo Corrigan – Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofísicos del Petróleo (COP 3,000,000) $1,000

*1 USD = 3,000 COP

PUBLICATIONS
Published as a PhD student

• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Hoke, G. D., Fitzgerald, P., Sobel, E. R., Glodny, J., Mora, A., Montes, C. Late Miocene Incision of the Cauca River Canyon in the tropical Northern Andes. Geological Society of America Bulletin (accepted, in press).

• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Ott, R., Hoke, G. D., Galve, J. P., Pérez-Peña, V., Mora, A. Neogene variations in slab geometry drive topographic change and drainage reorganization in the Northern Andes of Colombia. Global and Planetary Change (2021).

• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Hoke, G.D., Mora, A., Fitzgerald, P., Sobel, E.R., Sandoval, J. R., Glodny, J., Valencia, V., Parra, M., Zapata, S. The case for tectonic control on erosional exhumation on the tropical Northern Andes based on thermochronology data. Tectonics (2021)
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Hoyos, N., Restrepo, J.C., Escobar, J., Hoke, G. Contrasting climatic signals control the hydrology of the mountainous Cauca River (source) and its associated sedimentary basin (sink): implications for the signals recorded in the sedimentary record. Geomorphology (2021)
• Scholz, S., Petersen, S.V., Escobar, J., Jaramillo, C., Hendy, A.J.W., Allmon, W.D., Curtis, J.H., Anderson, B.M., Hoyos, N., Restrepo, J.C., Perez, N. Isotope sclerochronology indicates enhanced seasonal precipitation in northern South America (Colombia) during the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum. Geology (2020)
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Parra, M., Jaramillo, C., Silvestro, D., Echeverri, S., Montes, C., Jaramillo, J.M. and Escobar, J. Provenance analysis of the Pliocene Ware Formation in the Guajira Peninsula, northern Colombia: Paleodrainage implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences (2018

Published prior to PhD
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Gongora, D., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C., Montes, C., Cuervo, A., Hendy, A., Machado, A., Cardenas, D., Bayona, G. New records of Humiriaceae fossil fruits from the Oligocene and early Miocene of the western Azuero Peninsula, Panamá. Boletín Sociedad Geológica Mexicana (2018)
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Cuervo-Gomez, A., Martinez, C., Montes, C., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C. Paleogene Salvinia (Salviniaceae) from Colombia and their paleobiogeographic implications. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology (2017)
• Moreno, J.F., Hendy, A.J.W., Quiroz, L., Hoyos, N., Jones, D.S., Zapata, V., Zapata, S., Ballen, G., Cadena, E., Cárdenas, A.L., Carrillo-Briceño, J.D., Carrillo, J.D., Delgado-Sierra, D., Escobar, J., Martínez, J.I., Martínez, C., Montes, C., Moreno, J., Perez, N., Sánchez, R., Suárez, C., Vallejo-Pareja, M.C., and Jaramillo, C. An Overview and Revised stratigraphy of Neogene strata in the Cocinetas Basin, La Guajira, Colombia. Swiss Journal of Paleontology (2015)

Published Outreach publications in Spanish
*Hipótesis is a journal focused on scientific outreach from the School of Sciences at Universidad de los Andes. I published several outreach articles during my undergraduate studies.
• Perez-Consuegra, N. and Cala, A. 2016, Rocas sedimentarias: ¿cómo se forman y qué nos cuentan sobre el pasado?. Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v. 20, p. 78-85.
• Cuervo, A., Perez-Consuegra, N. and Lamus, F. 2016, Levantamiento de la Cordillera Oriental de los Andes colombianos. Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v. 19, p. 66-73.
• Perez-Consuegra, N. and Cuervo, A. 2016, Minerales pesados: una herramienta para reconstruir el pasado a partir de las rocas. Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v. 19, p. 4-7.
• Perez-Consuegra, N. and Cuervo, A. 2015, Un nuevo fósil del helecho acuático Salvinia. Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v.18, p. 14-16.
• Perez-Consuegra, N. and Rodriguez, L. A. 2014, Primeras señales de recuperación de la capa de ozono. Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v. 17, p. 14-16.
• Perez-Consuegra, N., Moreno, F., and Vallejo, M. C. 2014, Gliptodontes: mamíferos gigantes en el pasado de la Guajira colombiana: Hipótesis, Apuntes científicos uniandinos, v. 17, p. 54-57.

PRESENTATIONS
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Ott, R., Hoke, G. D., Galve, J. P., Pérez-Peña, V. Topographic response to Neogene variations in slab geometry, climate and drainage reorganization in the Northern Andes of Colombia. European Geophysical Union General Assembly (EGU) Abstracts 2021.
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Hoke, G. D., Fitzgerald, P., Sobel, E. R., Glodny, J., Mora, A., Montes, C. Unraveling the incision of the Cauca River Canyon of the Northern Andes: Contrasting cooling histories revealed by AFT and AHe thermochonology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2020.
• Pérez-Consuegra, N., Sobel, E. R., Mora, A., Sandoval, J. R., Fitzgerald, P., Zapata, S., Parra, M., Glodny, J., Hoke, G. D. What controls erosion (exhumation) along the humid eastern margin of the Northern Andes? Insights from U-Th/He thermochronology. EGU Abstracts, 2020.
• Sandoval, J., Pérez-Consuegra, N., Gómez, R., Mora, A., Parra, M., Valencia, V., Horton, B., Bueno, R., Reyes A., Beltrán, A., Cárdenas, A. Spatial distribution of U-Pb ages across a basement uplift in the Northern Andes and its implications for the interpretation of the detrital record in adjacent basins. European Geophysical Union General Assembly (EGU) Abstracts, 2020.
• Perez, N., Hoke, G., Mora, A. Using Tectonic Geomorphology to understand the topographic evolution of the Colombian Andes. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2018.
• Scholz, SR., Petersen, SV., Escobar, J., Jaramillo, C., Hendy, A., Allmon, WD., Moreno, F., Curtis, JH., Anderson, BM., Hoyos, N., Restrepo, JC., Perez, N. Isotope Schlerochronology and Tropical Seasonality during the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018
• Perez, N., Parra, M., Montes, C., Echeverri, S., Jaramillo, JM. Pliocene Paleodrainage in Northwestern South America Constrained by Multi-Method Sedimentary Provenance in the Alta Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2015 2456.
• Perez, N., Cuervo, A., Montes, C. Salvinia fossils from the Eocene Gualanday group and their paleoclimatic implications. Semana Técnica de la Geología, 2014.
• Perez, N., Moreno, F., Carrillo, J.D., Jaramillo, C. Miocene Gliptodontidae from La Guajira. Poster Presentation. Network for Neotropical Biogeography NNB3, 2014.
• Perez, N., Moreno, F., Carrillo, J.D., Jaramillo, C. Xenarthros del Mioceno de la Guajira. Colombian Geology Congress, 2013.

RESEARCH SKILLS
• Statistical analysis and scripting in R, MATLAB and Python
• Remote sensing analysis in R QGIS, ArcGIS
• Geomorphological Analysis in ArcGIS and QGIS
• Lab skills – mineral separation
• Fission track thermochronology

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
PhD
• Introduction to Earth Sciences (Spring 2020)
• Oceanography (Fall 2019)

Undergraduate
• Plants and Man (Fall 2016)
• Geology (Spring 2016)
• Life and Times of Dinosaurs (Fall 2013)
• Field Structural Geology (Fall 2013)
• Geosciences (Fall 2012)
• Differential Calculus (Spring 2012)
• Physics II (Fall 2012)
• Physics I (Spring 2012)

REFEREES
Gregory D. Hoke – PhD advisor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University.
Syracuse, NY, United States of America
Email: gdhoke@syr.edu

Paul G. Fitzgerald – PhD co-advisor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University.
Syracuse, NY, United States of America
Email: pgfitzge@syr.edu

Carlos Jaramillo – Undergraduate research advisor and collaborator
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Panama City, Panamá
Email: jaramilloc@si.edu

Camilo Montes – Undergraduate research advisor and collaborator
Departamento de Física y Geociencias, Universidad del Norte.
Barranquilla, Colombia.
Email: camilomontes@uninorte.edu.co