Oradores Convidados | Keynote Speakers
Irina Gorodetskaya
Dr. Irina Gorodetskaya is a researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a polar meteorologist and climate scientist, particularly interested in the hydrological cycle in the Polar regions, including poleward moisture and heat transport and precipitation processes and impacts in the changing climate. She is using a range of methodologies, including in-situ and remote sensing observations, analyzing and evaluating re-analyses and global coupled models, and regional climate modelling She participated in expeditions in the Nordic Seas, Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. Currently, she is co-leading the Year of Polar Prediction winter Special Observing Period Task Team in the Antarctic Peninsula region. She is also a member of the steering committee of SCAR’s Scientific Research Programme “Near-Term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System” (AntClimNow). She is a Lead Author of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis and in her keynote talk she will speak about the IPCC report conclusions regarding the Polar Regions.
Philipp Assmy
Dr Philipp Assmy has a broad scientific background in pelagic and sea ice ecology and biogeochemistry from both the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean with a particular emphasis on phytoplankton and ice algal ecology. He participated in several interdisciplinary research cruises and large international research projects such as the Nansen Legacy project and the Norwegian young sea ICE (N-ICE2015) and MOSAiC sea ice drift expeditions.
Andres Barbosa
Andres Barbosa, currently is Senior Researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research in the Natural History Museum, Madrid, Spain. PhD in Biological Sciences by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. He is interested in the ecology of birds in extreme environments and the effects of global change. His work on extreme environments has been developed in Antarctica, the Arctic, Tierra de Fuego (Patagonia – Argentina), high mountains during winter and subdeserts. The research fields include ecophysiology, specifically immunology and oxidative stress, host-parasite interaction including diseases, foraging strategies, breeding behaviour, sexual selection, contamination and free radicals effects. Studied bird species include penguins, shorebirds and passerines. He is author of 133 papers published in peer-review journals. He has been Principal Investigator of 10 research projects. Researcher participant in 23 research projects. He has leaded 14 Antarctic and 1 Arctic expeditions and 4 scientific cruises along the Antarctic Peninsula and has been supervisor of 10 PhD Thesis. He has been Deputy director of Experimental Station of Arid Zones, CSIC (2003-2008), Head of the Department of Evolutionary Ecology at the Natural History Museum, CSIC (2010-2012), Deputy director of the Natural History Museum, CSIC (2012-2015), Scientific Manager of the Spanish Polar Program (2017-2021),
Member of the Expert Group of Birds and Marine Mammals of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) (2014-), Chair of the Working Group of Wildlife Health Monitoring of EGBAMM-SCAR (2014-), Spanish delegate in the Working Group of Ecosystem Management and Monitoring of the Convention of Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), Leadership member of the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc Working Group of SOOS (Southern Ocean Observing System) (2021-), Representative of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) (2015-), Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Ornithological Society (2004-2006), Member of the Management Board of the Spanish Ornithological Society (2015-2016), Vice-president of the Spanish Ornithological Society (2016-) and Member of the Management Board of the Spanish Evolutionary Biology Society (2016-).