2007-2010
PhD student with the IBERIA GAP project and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (FPI Fellowship)
I will be a PhD student under supervision of Dr. Miguel B. Araújo working in the IBERIA GAP project. I am interested in analyzing how climate change is affecting the species distribution patterns, using modeling tools.
At the moment I am working in my MSc Applied Marine Science’s project: Phyto-ecological changes in the Black Sea – the synergistic effects of eutrophication and climate change. As the Black Sea’s ecosystem has undergone significant changes in the last 40 years and I am particularly interested in studying the external forces (excessive nutrient input, introduction of invasive species, overfishing and climate changes) that have triggered ecological regime shifts in this fragile ecosystem. I am assessing the inter and intra annual changes in the abundance and biomass of phytoplankton before and during the eutrophication period.
In my participation in the IBERIA GAP project I will focus on the biodiversity conservation under land use and climate change and I will give support to build the database IBIODAT. Due to the spatial and temporal dimensions of the data the use of ArcGIS will be an integral part of the project. The main aim is to have a flexible management tool for the selection of protected areas.
