Celebrating our Hispanic Scientists
This Hispanic Heritage month, September 15th-October 15th, we recognize some of our Hispanic scientists and celebrate their work and contributions to marine scientist.
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Dr. Valerie De Anda is a Research Associate and is using computational biology to understand the microbial ecology of the deep sea and other extreme environments. Her work has been published in the most prestigious scientific journals and is changing what we know about the tree of life. Example news story on her research. |
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Dr. Tracy Villareal is a Professor of ecology. Dr. Villareal’s research focuses on how the physics and chemistry of the ocean control phytoplankton species distributions. This in turn, regulates important processes such as nitrogen-fixation. He was one of the first to discover that small overlooked phytoplankton that fix nitrogen, make major contributions to the oceanic nitrogen budget. Learn more |
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Dr. Mirna Vázquez Rosas Landa is a Postdoctoral Fellow and studies uncultured microbes that live in the hydrothermal vents and other habitats like sediments laden with oil. She works to decipher their metabolic capabilities through metagenomics. Learn more |
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Benjamin Negrete, Jr. is a Ph.D. candidate and studies the physiological, behavioral, and genomic responses of coastal fish to environmental stresses. His work focuses on how coastal fish respond and tolerate low oxygen levels. Learn more |
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Miranda Madrid is a recent Master’s of Science graduate. Miranda studies large-scale monitoring programs, as well as how and why black mangroves are changing in the local marshes. She was recently awarded one of eight Science Policy Fellowships by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and will be working with the NOAA RESTORE Science Program. Watch this video to learn more. |