Lenin E. Oviedo Correa  is a cetacean researcher, working on small odontocetes’ ecology both in his home country Venezuela and in Costa Rica’s Southern Pacific Coast. His research efforts are mostly directed to the evaluation of critical habitat for sympatric dolphin species, particularly common and Guiana dolphins in northeast Venezuela, as well as Pantropical spotted and bottlenose dolphins in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica.

Lenin is currently a PhD candidate in the University of Hong Kong.