Luis Migenis

As an undergraduate student, Luis Migenis worked as a research and consulting assistant to Dr. Gustavo Candelas, considered to be the father of modern ecology in Puerto Rico.

Luis worked with clients such as Levitt and Sons, the Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Administration and DuPont Agrichemicals. Upon entering graduate school, he was granted an internship with the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s Institute of Tropical Forestry (now International Institute of Tropical Forestry) as a field biologist at the ITF/National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research Bisley Experimental Watersheds Project site in the Luquillo Experimental Forest.  There, he was in charge of the day to day gathering and analysis of scientific data and overall project site management. Luis later worked for CMA Architects and Engineers, one of Puerto Rico’s largest engineering firms, as an environmental specialist. In this capacity he was in charge of analyzing the possible environmental impacts of the firm’s projects, suggesting redesign alternatives to minimize or avoid any such impacts, identifying all the necessary state and federal environmental, natural resources and historical resources permits, preparing and filing these permits and coordinating their review and subsequent approval with the agencies.

Luis has taught environmental policy and legislation at the Graduate Environmental Management Program of the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico.  He has authored more than 100 technical studies and reports for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Intel, Linde Gas, El Nuevo Día, Westin Hotels, the Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, the Puerto Rico National Parks Company, Wal-Mart Stores, CPH Engineers and Biovail Laboratories, among others. He is a certified reforestation professional and wetland delineator.

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