Dr. MARINA TAGLIAFERRO
I am a freshwater biologist. I obtained my PhD at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) in biological sciences. I began my active biology life as a student studying marine environments, particularly rockfish and the use of marine protected areas at the University of Washington. After doing research in different areas, since 2009 I started doing research in the ecology and ecotoxicology in rivers and streams. I am especially interested in human effects: dams, introduced species, urbanization, and contaminants.
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I am always open to collaborations and to provide student supervision.
MY LATEST RESEARCH
My research is related to stressed rivers and its fauna.
At the moment, I have 3 geographical areas where I worked: Subantarctic, semiarid, and pampean stream.
My keywords: disturbance, river &stream, macroinvertebrates, fish, ecology and ecotoxicology and decomposition.
Córdoba (Argentina). Rivers under disturbances - Ecotoxicology and River Ecology
I had the great opportunity to be part of the "Laboratorio de Estudios Ecotoxicologicos y Ambientales en Animales" (IDEA- CONICET & Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) directed by Dr. Andrea Hued.
My reasearch in this area focus on:
*Contamination
*Macroinvertebrates and fish
*Ecotoxicology and ecology
*Fatty acids analysis
I still remember when a little girl told me not to travel to Portugal because there
was a virus... my answer: "please, don´t worry... the virus is not a problem
in Portugal.
In collaboration with Ana Goncalves (MARE) & Manuel Graca (Universidade de Coimbra), in 2020 started evaluating changes in organisms quality (through fatty acids and other macromolecules) in response to different stressors.
*Fatty acids
*Microplastics
*Metal contamination
I started studying subantactic macroinvertebrates communities in Ushuaia (Argentina) in 2018 and still work on that.
*Biological invasions
*Urbanization
*Decomposition
*other land-use changes
Sub-antarctic streams
Since 2014, I started a new research area: urban rivers. I develop litter breakdown experiments and evaluate the macroinvertebrate assemblage associated to decomposition bags. My study areas are located in urban Pampean and Patagonian streams. I work under supervision and collaboration of Dr. Adonis Giorgi (INEDES) and Dr. Ricardo Albariño (INIBIOMA).
As part of a "short internship" in Portugal, I got into a new and amazing world: ecotoxicological experiments. I have evaluate copper and uranium sublethal effects (feeding and growth rate, and enzymatic activities) on a trichopteran larvae. This project was done at the Universidade de Coimbra under Dr. Manuel Graça supervision.