A scientific council board, consisting of 6 members, for the Huinay Foundation was established in September 2004. This board is composed of 4 Chilean, 1 European and 1 North-American scientist:
Dr. Carlos Moreno
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Dr. Roberto Rodríguez
Universidad de Concepción
Department of Botany
Dr. Sergio Navarrete
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Dr. Wolfgang Stotz
Universidad Catolica del Norte, Coquimbo
Department of Marine Biology
Dr. Wolf Arntz
Alfred-Wegener-Institut for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Bremerhaven, Germany
Dr. Paul Dayton
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA