Our laboratory is also a component of the EULA-Chile Center for Environmental Sciences, and as such is available to support Technical Assistance activities related to coastal ecosystems, including analytical capabilities for spectrophotometric and potentiometric pH measurements, analysis of dissolved inorganic carbon ( CID) by the non-dispersive infrared method (NDIR), analysis of total alkalinity by potentiometric titration, bioassay studies of contaminants (e.g. pyrethroids, hydrocarbons, among others) and their effects on marine organisms, such as larvae of marine invertebrates, molluscs, and marine zooplankton, as well as support in the management of adaptation plans to climate change in the coastal zone.
Technical Assistance Projects
The combined effect of ocean acidification and corrosive acidified coastal waters for plankton productivity (COA-CAP): A comprehensive analysis in contrasting aquatic environments. FONDECYT Nº1130254. 2013 – 2016.
Increasing atmospheric CO2 has lowered the pH of the surface ocean, and although the ocean has partially absorbed anthropogenic atmospheric …
Millenium Institute of Oceanography (IMO). Iniciativa Milenio Nº IC120019. 2014 – 2020.
IMO is an institute dedicated to the investigation of oceanographic problems that require integrative and collaborative approaches ranging from processes …
Center for the Study of Multiple Drivers on Marine Socio-ecological Systems (MUSELS). Iniciativa Milenio Nº120086. 2014 – 2020.
This interdisciplinary research program is dedicated to understand the impact of different environmental, ecological, economic and social stress factors have …
International network for understanding the fenotypic plasticity of mussels upon Ocean Acidification scenarios (InpHOA). CONICTY REDES Nº180012. 2019 – 2020.
The InpHOA research network brings together four research groups working in different coastal regions of the East Pacific Ocean, Europe, …
SUBPESCA/MMA/GEF/FAO. 2019 – 2020.
The project implements a pilot monitoring program allowing fishermen, fish/mussel farmers, and relevant actors in 4 coves on the Chilean …
Carbon cycling and physiological traits in phytoplankton functional groups under low pH/low oxygen conditions (CARpHOX). FONDECYT Nº1170065. 2017 – 2021.
On a global scale, there are extensive oxygen minimum zones (OMZ), areas that are expanding due to climate warming and …