Dr. Gustavo A. Ramírez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the California State University, Los Angeles where he leads a bioinformatics and microbial ecology research group. Gustavo holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Southern … Continued
Monika Bright is a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is appointed Vice Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the Faculty of Life Sciences. Monika received her Ph.D. in zoology and paleontology at the University of Vienna in 1992 and her habilitation in marine biology and zoology in 2001. … Continued
Juanita Carballeira Martínez is a master’s student from the Marine Science Department at the University of Puerto Rico, conducting her studies in Chemical Oceanography. Carballeira-Martínez is currently assisting with monitoring seawater outflows of a power plant in Bahía de Guayanilla, PR for regulatory compliance. Advised by Dr. Travis Courtney, she is developing a thesis determining … Continued
Jose Martinez earned a BS in Oceanography from Texas A&M University and is currently a master’s graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez majoring in chemical oceanography. He is a researcher of the Biogeochemistry Ecology Research Group in the Department of Marine Sciences at UPRM specifically looking at oxygen variability in southwest Puerto … Continued
My name is Yanelle Silva Luna, I am a marine scientist from the University of Puerto Rico. I am currently doing my Master’s in Biological Oceanography in the Ecology and Biology of Coral Reefs Laboratory at Isla Magueyes Research Station. My research interests are focused on benthic ecology and coral diseases. I’ve been involved in … Continued
My name is Leira J. Centeno Mejías, and I am a graduate student. I’m an independent contractor currently monitoring seawater outflows of a power plant in Bahía de Guayanilla, PR, for regulatory compliance as part of a project-based MS through coordinating field efforts, organizing data, and assisting with reports with DNA Environment.
Catherine Hernandez Rodriguez is a marine science graduate student at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. She is quantifying seagrass metabolism to better understand “blue carbon” uptake and seagrass bed biogeochemistry through a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the role of seagrasses in carbon sequestration and seawater buffering under ocean acidification. She received her bachelor’s degree … Continued
Teresa Winter is a PhD candidate in the department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Vienna. Her research interests focus on thiotrophic mutualistic relationships prevalent in many marine habitats. She is currently studying shallow water wood falls in the Mediterranean Sea, tracking when and under what conditions ciliates harboring thiotrophic ectosymbionts colonize … Continued
Tinkara Tinta is a scientific associate at the Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia. Tinkara has interdisciplinary background with BSc in biochemistry (Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) and PhD in environmental sciences (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia). She is a marine microbial ecologist exploring how different perturbations … Continued
Jan Steger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Palaeontology at the University of Vienna, Austria. He obtained his MSc in marine biology from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Vienna. His main interests are the biodiversity, distributional patterns, and functional ecology of marine benthic … Continued
