Research lines
1-Multiple stressors effects related to Global Climate Change (Ocean Acidification, Deoxygenation, Warming) on marine invertebrates of commercial importance and/or community structuring
2-Analysis of life history parameters of estuarine and marine invertebrates and their relationship to natural climate variability (ENSO) and/or Global Climate Change and their response to different trophic and non-trophic interactions.
3-Sclerochronology in bivalves as a tool for the identification of climatic variations at the macro level
4-Assessment of bivalves of commercial interest (age and growth rates, mortality, reproductive strategies, population dynamics).
6-Ecophysiology of aquatic organisms and their relationship to Global Change.
7-Monitoring of Ocean Acidification (marine geochemistry) in coastal systems and its effects on ecosystems.
8-Assessment of marine and coastal ecosystem functions and services with a transdisciplinary approach (socioeconomic systems) in the face of a Global Climate Change. Assessing the consequences not only on the ecosystem but also on society, providing information to the different stakeholders involved in order to contribute to a sustainable management of the resource, providing additionally adaptation and mitigation tools to the CC in order to guarantee the socio-environmental well-being.
Current projects:
2017-2021 “Identification of ecological processes and fisheries management in coastal benthic systems under a climate change scenario: implications for bivalve populations and associated communities”. ANPCYT. PICT 2016-1445. Innovative 2020. (PI: B. Lomovasky)
2019-2021 “Small-scale Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Services: Adaptation and Transformation to Secure Human Wellbeing”. INTER-AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH (IAI), (SGP-HW 017). Participating countries: Canada, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. (Co-PI: B. Lomovasky)
2019-2023 “Effect of Ocean Acidification on the patagonian scallop Zygochlamys patagonica: a commercial bivalve species from Southwest Atlantic” (Contract 23229), within the IAEA CRP global project (K41018): ‘Evaluating the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Seafood, a Global Approach’. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA). Participating countries: Sweden, France, USA, Monaco, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Turkey, Lebanon, Thailand, New Zealand. (PI: B. Lomovasky)
2020-2023 “Strengthening Capacities in Marine and Coastal Environments Using Nuclear and Isotopic Techniques” (Regional Project, RLA 7025). INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA). Participating countries: Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (Argentinean counterpart: B. Lomovasky).