RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Since 2016. Professor (Assistant) or Lecturer for Environmental Studies Department of Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela. Current projects I am developing: Microbiota present in the faeces of Blue and Yellow Macaws (A. ararauna) in the city of Caracas (Funded by FONACIT N°2024000268), since 2023: Reproductive success of Blue and Yellow Macaws in Caracas, and since 2007, Psittacines monitoring programme in Caracas.

2023-2024 Editor of Arxius Miscellania Zoologica (Journal), Barcelona, Spain.

JANUARY-JULY 2012. Hired by Professional Fees for statitical analysis of data base of the Project of mission science No 2008000911-5: "Entomological and eco-epidemiological research for the monitoring and evaluation of the impact of onchocerciasis control in Venezuela"

2008. Field Assistant of the Dra. Virginia Sanz (IVIC) collecting birds using mist nets at Margarita Island, Venezuela.

MARCH - JUNE 2008. Nestsearcher for Thomas Martin PhD (Montana University, Missoula) at Yacambú N.P. -Venezuela. Searching, recording and taking samples of nestlings and parents.

2004 – 2008. Researcher I of the Biological Information Systems Section (SIB) of the Museum of Natural History La Salle (MHNLS).Caracas-Venezuela. Making spacial analysis for our biodiversity projects, managing data base of the museum and update the protocols of management of information in biological collections.

MAY - DECEMBER 2003. Field Assistant of Steven R. Beissinger PhD (Berkeley University, California). Study of biology and behavior during breeding season of Green Rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus). Checking artificial nest and searching for naturals, measuring eggs and nestlings, Banding nestlings and parents, Target mistnetting, behavioral observations, sampling vegetation.

DECEMBER 2002-FEBRUARY 2003. Field Assistant of Kenneth Kriese PhD (University of California, Davis - California). Study of breeding behavior of Orinoco Goose (Neochen jubata). Checking artificial nest and searching for natural nest. Checking viability of eggs and follow the development of each nest until the nestlings abandoned the nest.

JUNE-JULY 2002. Field Assistant of Jessica Eberharg PhD (Cornell University, New York). Study of vocalization of Brown Throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax). Helping with the playbacks and mistnetting.

SEPTEMBER 1999- DECEMBER 2000. GIS technician for Professor Roberto Barrera, PhD inside his Dengue project. Where I digitized maps and worked in layers of the SIG.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Since 2016. Professor (Assistant) or Lecturer of Department of Environmental Studies of Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela. Theoretical Classes: Evolution, Ecology I and II, Biology of Organism III, Biology of Conservation, Use and Conservation of Terrestrial Environments, Laboratories classes: Ecology I and Biology of Organism III.

2014 - 2016. Teacher Assistant (15 hours/week) of Department of Environmental Studies of Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela. Classes: Laboratory of Ecology I and II.

2004 – 2006 Advisor of Academic Internship of 5 students of Geography of Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Caracas – Venezuela.

PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:

Cristina Sainz-Borgo, Guillermo Anderson Benaim, Zirza Díaz, Ana Melisa Fernándes, Irina Formoso, María de Lourdes González-Azuaje, Sofía Marín, Luis Miguel Montilla, Fernando Riera, Andreina Rivera, Irina Santana y Eloísa Sardinha (2018) Avifauna de zonas verdes de la ciudad de caracas, Venezuela: un estudio comparativo. Acta Biológica Venezuelica 38(2): 125-143.

María de L. González, J. Celsa Señaris y Argelia Rodríguez-Contreras (2011) Dieta del sapito rayado Atelopus cruciger (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) en el tramo central de la cordillera de La Costa, Venezuela. Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 173-174: 69-84.

Giuseppe Colonnello, Leyda Rodríguez, Omaira Hokche, Irene C. Fedón y María González-Azuaje (2011) Estructura y Florística de los Bosques de la Cuenca del Río Cucurital, Sector Occidental del Parque Nacional Canaima, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela. BioLlania Edición Esp., 10:122-154. Link: http://mail.unellez.edu.ve/port/index.php?cont=13

ARTICLES:

González Azuaje, María de Lourdes. 2020. Caracas ciudad de Guacamayas. Revista Mexico- Venezolana NAGUARA. Vol. 1. Pp: 9

González Azuaje, María de Lourdes. 2013. Efecto de las condiciones ambientales, disponibilidad y calidad de los recursos de nidificación y alimentación sobre el éxito reproductivo del Periquito Forpus passerinus en los llanos centrales venezolanos (Thesis abstract). Revista Venezolana de Ornitología 3. Pp: 49-50

González, María. 2008. Siguiendo el Vuelo de los Loros de Caracas. 21 experiencias ambientales para el siglo 21. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales. Agosto 2008. Pp:18-19