Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Pollution
Activities
I study the taxonomy, assemblage composition,
abundance and biomass of marine phytoplankton, particularly diatoms, from coastal
Antarctica, the Argentine Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Seawaters samples for this
work have been collected within the framework of different research projects
(such as the 2007-2008 International Polar Year Canada-Three-Oceans, 2008-2010; Free-drifting
Icebergs as Proliferating Dispersion Sites of Iron Enrichment, Organic Carbon
Production and Export in the Southern Ocean, 2018-2019; Estudio de la Biodiversidad de Diatomeas Bentónicas y Epizoicas en Áreas Costeras del
Golfo San Jorge, 2019-2026; Linking Inuit Hunting and Fishing to Primary
Productivity in Greenland Fjords, 2021-2024; Estudio de las comunidades microalgales planctónicas y simpágicas de Antártida.
Especial
énfasis en el grupo de las diatomeas, 2019-2026) and research cruises in which I participated.
Results are regularly published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
As part of a more recent research line, I study the occurrence, concentration, and characterization of microplastics in coastal marine environments, considering both abiotic (seawater and sediments) and biotic (intertidal fish) matrices along the central coast of the Gulf of San Jorge, Argentine Sea.
Sea regions of study
Arctic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Skills
Expertise in the quantification of phytoplankton diversity and carbon biomass using light and scanning electron microscopy, with a particular emphasis on diatom taxonomy.
Research on the assessment and characterization of microplastics in coastal marine environments.
