About Me

I am a researcher specializing in the interactions between light, water, and the photosynthetic organisms that live in it. My career covers organisms and ecosystems spanning the four main forms of water in the biosphere: Rivers, Lakes, Oceans, and Ice.

I am currently working with phytoplankton and optical data from 600 lakes in Canada, part of the Canadian Lake Pulse Survey. I was in charge of the optics measurements and sampled ~100 lakes, but also participated in sediment coring. I developed a new way to measure particulate absorption and applied it to the Canadian lake samples.

I am currently working with data from microbial mats from the Canadian arctic and with polar cyanobacteria cultures. I had the extreme luck to visit Ward Hunt Lake, the northenmost lake in the Canada and the Americas (lat: 83.1 N) where I installed autonomous sensors in a mooring to monitor the impacts of climate change in this rapidly changing environment. I also performed field work on the arctic wetlands of Resolute Bay, Canada.

I am currently a part of a grant-winning project to calibrate fluorimetric  sensors for cyanobacteria measurements accross Uruguayan waters. I also extensively worked in the Rio Negro and Santa Lucia rivers of Uruguay, the two main internal rivers of the country.

I am currently working with hyperspectral radiometry installed on the autonomous floats BGC-ARGO towards the elucidation of the chlorophyll fluorescence quantum yield. I also participated in the ocean observation campaign that visited the DYFAMED point, a point of 3200 m of depth situated 30 km off the coast of Nice, France. 

Positions held

 

2024-Present: Postdoctoral fellow,  Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Sorbonne & CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 

2024-2024: Postdoctoral fellow, Takuvik - Université Laval, Québec, Canada

2018-2024 PhD in Remote Sensing, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada 
2013-2018: Research and teaching assistant, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay 

Organizations and Projects

Here is the list of major projects I have been a part of.

Canadian Lake Pulse Survey (CA)

Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (FR) 

TAKUVIK (CA/FR)

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Interested in finding out more about what I do? Contact me at 
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