Project: ProOceans (2021-2024)

Funding: Plan Nacional

Expertise: I am a data-driven marine scientist with a passion for analyzing biological data and contributing to open science. My background includes an MSc in Bioinformatics, where I worked with large datasets and explored transcriptomics using Python. I am currently completing an MSc in Biostatistics, looking forward to applying my statistical skills to marine biological research.

Project: Integrated Marine Ecosysem Assessments (iMARES) research group

Funding: Generalitat de Catalunya (SRG-2021)- 00435

Expertise: Project manager

Project: Towards the use of sentinel species and ecosystem modeling tools for adaptive and proactive marine conservation (SEASENTINELS)

Funding: PN2022 -Consolidación Investigadora-Subprograma Estatal de Incorporación- Programa Estatal para Desarrollar, Atraer y Retener Talento – PEICTI 2021-2023

Expertise: I am a marine conservationist with interest in understanding the surrounding natural environment, animal behaviour and seeking climate change solutions through research. My current research focuses on global change ecology, marine ecosystem modeling and conservation, with a special emphasis on marine turtle and penguin species diet patterns, aiming to provide a better understanding on these animals’ trophic ecologies and their responses to environmental changes.

Project: Assessment of potential interactions between the purse SEINErs fishery of Castellón and Endangered, Threatened, Protected species (2023) // Aproximaciones científicas en la implementación de estrategias marinas: herramientas de gestión (ACCION) (2024-2025)

Funding: Ocean Stewardship Fund MAVA Grant // Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITERD) – Fondos de Recuperación.

Expertise: marine ecology, trophic ecology, outreach

Project: Juan de la Cierva fellow (2024-2025)

Funding: Juan de la Cierva 2022 -MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 & Unión Europea “NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.

Expertise: I am a behavioural ecologist and conservation biologist with a strong focus on using bio-logging as a tool to advance our understanding of the ecology of free-moving animals. I am particularly interested in how human-driven stressors may threaten top predators inhabiting dynamic marine ecosystems through direct or cascading effects. Furthermore, I have been passionate about animal migration since childhood, and I am deeply interested in unravelling the secrets of these amazing movements along ocean basins and land masses.

I possess high-level skills in various state-of-the-art analytical techniques, including quantitative modelling of movement and behaviour, spatial ecology, stable isotope analysis, and advanced statistical approaches. Additionally, I have extensive experience in fieldwork, leading numerous fieldwork campaigns to deploy tracking devices and collect biological samples from seabirds. On the desktop, I function as a data scientist, thriving on challenging assignments and enjoying data handling, especially with massive datasets.

My ultimate goal is to provide essential knowledge on functional ecology in marine ecosystems to enhance conservation strategies and management policies, fostering the sustainable use of the oceans.

Website:

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WHJIrRwAAAAJ&hl=es
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-3235
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose-Manuel-Reyes-Gonzalez

Project: A Safe Operating Space for Penguins: fostering the present and future conservation of penguins and their associated marine systems (2023-2024)

Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2021-124831OA-I00)

Expertise: I am an ecologist with a strong background in data science. In my research, I focus on various aspects of the movement ecology of animals, particularly migration strategies and foraging patterns. My expertise lies in processing data from bio-logging devices to describe and model migratory routes, identify stopovers and residency in non-breeding areas, as well as their relationship with environmental variables. I am also passionate about data visualization, exploring new ways to create effective and beautiful graphics that turn data into accessible knowledge for the scientific community and the general public.

I have a particular interest in analysing activity patterns of animals to identify behavioural changes occurring through different stages of the life cycle, crucial knowledge for evaluating the impact of climate change and human disturbances on species sensitive to environmental changes. During my PhD at the University of Barcelona I mainly focused on the at-sea ecology of flying seabirds from tropical and temperate regions of the Atlantic. Later, during my postdoc at CEBC-CNRS in France, I began studying penguins, a group of non-flying seabirds with unique characteristics that make them excellent sentinels for monitoring the impact of climate change and fisheries in the Southern Ocean.

In my current postdoc at the ICM, I aim to compile the most comprehensive database of penguin tracking data to enhance our understanding of their at-sea distribution. This effort aims to contribute to improving marine conservation policies and safeguarding these sensitive species and their endangered habitats.

Website:

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qgt6v0QAAAAJ
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7540-3651
• ResarchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zuzana-Zajkova

Project: Mejora del conocimiento científico-técnico para la sostenibilidad de las pesquerías demersales del Mediterráneo occidental – SOSMED  (2022-2025)

Funding: Ministerio de Agricultura, Ramaderia y Pesca (MAPA) – Fondos de Recuperación Europeos.

Expertise: marine ecology, seasonality of marine ecosystems, trophic ecology, ecosystem models

Project: JdC postdoctoral position (2022-2024)

Funding: Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva-formación 2020 MCIN/AEI y Unión Europea “NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.

Expertise: I am a marine ecologist specialised in trophic ecology and historical ecology, mastering trophic (Stable Isotopes Analysis), temporal (SIBER), and genetics (DNA extraction and amplification) techniques. These skills are central to study the ecology of wildlife and predict the impact of environmental changes and anthropogenic actions to design precise management programs. I have special interest in understanding the ecological role of marine organisms and their trophic links in the marine food web and how natural factors and human activities may change these processes. My research is developed within a multi-interdisciplinary framework to provide holistic solutions to manage conservation problems in an ecosystem approach.  I obtained my PhD degree in Biology at National University of Mar del Plata and it was focused in marine ecosystem from South-Western Atlantic Ocean. After my PhD, I have done more research at the University of Barcelona studying the trophic ecology of Magellanic Penguins and Mediterranean turtles from different periods. I am a member of Q-MARE international group from Past Global Changes as a leader. The aim is to disentangle climate and pre-industrial human impacts on marine ecosystems and I collaborate with scientists from all around the world. Apart from this historical ecology research I am also interested in maritime spatial planning, because I was involved in set the foundations from the maritime spatial planning for the Catalan Government.

Website:

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Bas
• https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56417450300
• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-6557

Project: Mejora del conocimiento científico-técnico para la sostenibilidad de las pesquerías demersales del Mediterráneo occidental – SOSMED  (2022-2023) // Achieving good environmental status for maintaining ecosystem services by assessing integrated impacts of cumulative pressures Ges4Seas (2023-2026)

Funding: Ministerio de Agricultura, Ramaderia y Pesca (MAPA) – Fondos de Recuperación Europeos // Horizon EC 2020 – HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-04

Expertise: Bachelor’s degree in physics (UB). Master in Ecological Economics and Environmental Management (UAB), Director of Operations and Innovation (ESADE), PhD Environmental Sciences (UAB).

Topics: Fisheries food chain, fisheries and marine conservation policies, ecological economics, political ecology.

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• Google scholar
• ORCID
• CVN Fecyt

Project: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (FutureMares) – 2022-2023 // Achieving good environmental status for maintaining ecosystem services by assessing integrated impacts of cumulative pressures (Ges4Seas) – 2023-2024

Funding: Horizon EC 2020 – Topic LC-CLA-06-2019, H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020 // Horizon EC 2020 – HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-04

Expertise: Recreational Fisheries, Vulnerability analyses, Climate Change, Socioeconomic analyses

Project: Juan de la Cierva-incorporación 2019 (2020-2022) // Ramon y Caja Fellowship (2023-2027)

Funding: Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva-incorporación 2019 MICINN // MICINN

Expertise: I am an integrative marine ecologist with a strong interdisciplinary interest in fisheries. My current integrative line of research can be subdivided in two major branches. The first one focuses on behavioural ecology and fisheries-induced evolution. In particular, I aim to understand how animal behaviour affects fisheries and ecological processes, and vice versa, how fishing affects animal behaviour and thus ecological and evolutionary dynamics. The second one aims to integrate citizen science and digital data from social media into marine ecology and fisheries management.  In particular, I am using the emerging approaches of conservation culturomics and iEcology (use of digital data for studying human-nature interactions and ecological processes) in a marine recreational fishing context.

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Project: TRIATLAS (2020-2021) // Severo Ochoa postdoctoral position (2021-2022) // Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (2022-2023) // Permanent position (CT, 2024)

Funding: Horizon EC 2020-Topic: BG-08-2018-2019-RIA- SEP-210482854 // MICINN // MICINN

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My research focuses on global change ecology and marine biodiversity conservation, with a special emphasis on investigating the long-term trends in key environmental and biological variables in the world’s oceans; identifying those marine areas most at risk due to climate and human-driven environmental changes; evaluating wildlife responses to environmental changes in highly-impacted marine systems; and designing suitable management alternatives to enhance ecosystems’ resilience to climate change and to ensure a sustainable balance between marine biodiversity conservation and human use of ecosystem services. Over the last several years, my research has contributed to advancing the state-of-the-art in these fields by producing the most spatially explicit assessments on climate and human impacts in the marine environment; providing new insights on the biological consequences of climate change and overfishing; and devising new approaches to identifying key areas for marine biodiversity conservation. To accomplish these goals, I have worked at different levels of ecological complexity (from individuals to communities and ecosystems), with different study models (e.g. seabirds, cetaceans and waterbirds), and in various biogeographical areas (from template to polar regions).

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• WoS Researcher ID (Publons): I-3553-2014
• SCOPUS Author ID: 55612439700
• ORCID: 0000-0001-9670-486X

Project: Alternative histories and changes in coastal ecosystems – defining potential for recovery (2022-2025)

Funding: Research Council of Finland

Expertise: marine ecology, trophic interactions, ecosystem modelling, Baltic Sea, Ecopath with Ecosim, species invasions

My research interests are in marine food web ecology, and how disturbances impact their functions. Currently, I am concentrating in developing tools to balance sustainable use of marine resources and ecosystem functioning in the Baltic Sea. In my Masters’ thesis research I studied trophic interactions in coral reef setting. For my PhD research I studied on the various interactions of aquatic non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea coastal food webs. Since my PhD I have been working on developing ecosystem models for the coastal systems in the Baltic Sea, utilizing Ecopath with Ecosim and Ecospace (EwE) approach. These models can be used in a variety of settings, including ecosystem-based management.

Website:

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Riikka-Puntila
• https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/riikka-puntila-dodd
• https://www.syke.fi/en-US/Experts/Riikka_PuntilaDodd(44536)
• https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=B8-O1lUAAAAJ&hl=en

Project: Deep-time Climate Change Impact on Marine Food Webs (2020-2022) // Marie Curie Fellowship (2023-2027)

Funding: Lise Meitner Fellowship project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) // EU H2020 program

Expertise: geologist, paleontologist with expertise of fossil fish otoliths

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I conducted research at ICM in the IMARES team between 2022 and 2023, supported by a Severo Ochoa and a Marie Curie postdoc.

I am currently working in France at LOCEAN, Sorbonne University, and closely collaborate with the IMARES team. I am a physical oceanographer motivated by climate change and addressing ocean processes covering a wide range of scales, from basin scale to a few kilometers, and from decades to hours. I am interested in the link between physics and biology. In particular, I am currently working on ocean extreme events and their potential impacts on marine ecosystems.

Project: Ges4Seas (2022-2025), ProOceans (2021-2024), FutureMares (2020-2024), TRIATLAS (2020), EISA (2019-2022), PELWEB (2019-2020), EII coordination

Funding: EU Horizon 2020, NIVA (Norway), MINECO – Plan Nacional, EII SMA

Expertise: Spatial-temporal EwE modelling, GIS analyses, .NET programming, Ecopath International Initiative (EII) coordination.

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