https://oceanexpert.org/expert/emontes

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-4479

Ph.D.

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Research

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology

Enrique Montes is a Research Associate in biological oceanography at the College of Marine Science of the University of South Florida. He studies physical and biological controls of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycling in the ocean, and how these cycles affect marine ecosystems across time and space.  Montes relies on measurements of sinking particulate matter with moored and free-drifting sediment traps, dissolved nutrients and gases, and composition and abundance of phytoplankton.  He merges point observations from ships with satellite records to decipher the oceanographic context of local measurements.  In the USA, he is co-leading the development of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) co-sponsored by several agencies including NASA and NOAA. As part of MBON he seeks to understand natural and human drivers of biodiversity in coastal and open ocean habitats using dynamic biogeographic seascapes derived from satellite data, bio-optical measurements and metagenomics. Montes is the Principal Investigator of the MBON Pole-to-Pole of the Americas, a NASA-funded collaborative effort aimed at implementing a framework for detecting and understanding biodiversity change across marine habitats of the Americas, from the Arctic to Antarctica.

Global

Marine biogeochemistry, optical oceanography, satellite remote sensing, marine biogeography

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