Florencia Belén Rial is a Ph.D. student at the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Her research is based at the Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (IADO-CONICET), where she is a member of the Research Group in Chemistry of Transitional Environments (GIQAT). Her doctoral work focuses on the sulfur cycle in coastal environments, investigating its implications for water quality and the bioavailability of nutrients and trace metals. She studies how biogeochemical and redox processes at the sediment–water interface regulate the transformations of sulfur compounds and influence organic matter degradation in these dynamic systems.
Florencia has experience in field and laboratory work, including water and sediment sampling, nutrient and sulfur compound analysis, and environmental data interpretation. Her research aims to provide a baseline understanding of sulfur dynamics and its environmental implications in highly productive and anthropogenically influenced estuaries.
She earned her B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the Universidad Nacional del Sur and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the same institution. The Falkor (too) expedition Life in Extremes will be her first oceanographic cruise, offering the opportunity to apply her research to open-ocean environments and gain valuable experience at sea.
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