IDEAL-ICM

ECA 55
Effects of the Discharges of Glacial melting on the Antarctic coastal Ecosystem (EDGE)
Expedition facts
Name: ECA-55 – EDGE
Ship: Research Vessel Karpuj / Chilean Antartic Researh Station “Yelcho”
Distance: from Punta Arenas, Chile: 1365 km
Started: February 5, 2019. Finished: March 3, 2019.
Departure and arrival port: Punta Arenas -Chile
Funding Agencies: CONICYT (Chile) and Centro IDEAL (Chile)
Institutions: CSIC, ICM, Centro IDEAL.
Introduction
Main objective
Methodology
Results
We successfully installed a sediment trap in South Bay, Doumer Island. The trap is already collecting particle fluxes and we will recover it in the austral summer 2020 after one year of continous sampling.
Conclusions
It is still early to provide them.
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Team

Humberto González
Marine Biology Professor
Professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile and Director of Centro IDEAL. He is a world expert in marine plancton. He mainly works in the Antartic and the Patagonian fjords.

Ricardo Giesecke
PhD Biology
Expert in zooplancton and carbon fluxes in hight latitude pelagic systems. He works at the Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas de la Universidad Austral de Chile and researcher at the Centro IDEAL.

Emilio Alarcón
Biologist

Eduardo Menschel
PhD in Oceanography
Research assitent at the Universidad Austral de Chile and Centro IDEAL. He is especialist in biogenic fluxes, microplankton communities and coccoliths in the Humboldt Current and the Patagonian fjords. He is also expert in mooring techniqueploma on Antarctic Affairs.

Andrea Navarro
Social Communication and Journalist
Diploma in Antarctic Affairs. It is specialized in scientific divulgation. Member of the Regional Committee of the Environment of the Magallanes Region. She is in charge of the press office of the IDEAL Center

Vania Carrera
Marine Biologist
She is a Master student at the Universidad de Concepción and Centro IDEAL, her work is entitled “Modelling summer phytoplankton growth in Maxwell Bay, Antarctica”

Paulina Möller
Marine Biologist and MSc Geography and Geomatics
She has been research field assistant in several Antarctic expeditions for Centro IDEAL. She is Research Assistant at the Ecology Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Silvia de Diago
Geologist

Neus Maestro
Laboratory technician

Enrique Isla
PhD Marine Science