Melina Scian is a PhD student at the Laboratorio de Zooplancton Marino, within the Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Her doctoral research focuses on the diversity, distribution, and biogeography of chaetognaths (Chaetognatha) in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. She aims to identify … Continued
Nagib BHAIRY is an oceanographic instrumentation engineer at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO) and head of the atmosphere and sea department. As part of the Falkor (too) expedition “A Tale of Two Submarine Canyons”, he will be operating the glider underwater drone.
Ornella Silvestri is a PhD student in the Departmento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and holds a PhD scholarship from Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), conducting her research at the Servicio de Hidrografía Naval in Argentina. She has previously participated in six … Continued
Dr. Ricardo Silva works at the National Institute of Fisheries Research in Argentina. He has been studying (since 1999) phytoplankton (especially the small fractions) composition and dynamics at the EPEA time-series station (38°28′ S 57°42′ W), and in different areas of our shelf waters. He uses light (Utermöhl), fluorescence, and electron microscopy, flow cytometry, and … Continued
Sebastián E. Cornejo Guzmán is a Chilean geophysicist and incoming Ph.D. candidate in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Centro de Investigación del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA-UBA-CONICET). His research examines how meso- and submesoscale circulation shapes chlorophyll-a variability across the Southwest Atlantic, with a focus on validating high-resolution SWOT … Continued
Silvia Inés Romero is head of the Ocean Dynamics Laboratory at the Oceanography Department of the Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (SHN), Argentina. She is also a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (FCEN-UBA) and the Universidad de la Defensa Nacional (FadARA-UNDEF), where she contributes to academic training and research in marine sciences. Her work … Continued
Dr. Valeria Ana Guinder is a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). She leads the Microbial Plankton Group at the Argentine Institute of Oceanography (IADO) in Bahía Blanca. She has participated in numerous national and international oceanographic programs. Her research focuses on phytoplankton biodiversity, bloom dynamics, and harmful … Continued
Bárbara De Feo is a Master’s degree student and research assistant at the Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE–Universidad de la República, Uruguay). Her research focuses on plastic and microplastic pollution in the environment, including terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, and their interactions with biota across different regions of Uruguay and Antarctica. Since 2020, she … Continued
Claudia Piccini is a microbiologist whose research focus is the microbial ecology of aquatic ecosystems. She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (PEDECIBA, Uruguay) and works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE, Montevideo, Uruguay), where also serves as the Academic Director of the … Continued
PhD candidate in Geosciences from the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). Master’s degree in Integrated Coastal Management from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay (2021). A researcher in zoology, paleontology, taxonomy, and marine biology with a focus on invertebrates, he has also incorporated ethnobiology, macroalgae, and fish into his research … Continued
