Marco Ulloa received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2004. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), working on the project funded by the Packard Foundation "Numerical Modeling and Lagrangian Dispersion on the Northern Gulf of California". He is now a researcher of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), and is attached to the Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, located in Altamira (CICATA-Altamira), Tamaulipas, Mexico. Memberships include the IPN Environment Network, the Mexican Multidisciplinary Academy CA, and he is also a founding member of the Mexican Centre for Innovation in Ocean Energies CA. In addition, he is a member of CICESE's Oceanographic Monitoring Group with Gliders. His research topics mainly include: wave energy, wave groups, droughts, modes of climate variability, eutrophication,and dispersion of own-design drift buoys.