Associate Professor
Departamento de EcologÃa y BiologÃa Animal
Universidad de Vigo
Spain
BSc, Biology, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), 1990 MSc, Ecology, Universidad de Oviedo, 1992 PhD, Patterns of photosynthetic carbon allocation in natural phytoplankton assemblages, Universidad de Oviedo, 1995 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Southampton Oceanography Centre (UK), 1996-1998 Associate Professor, Universidade de Vigo (Spain) 1999-present · Scientific Researcher (CR1), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), 2005-2006
Dr Emilio Marañón research deals with the ecology and biogeochemical role of phytoplankton, the unicellular photosynthetic organisms that live in the surface waters of all aquatic ecosystems. In particular I focus on marine phytoplankton diversity and community structure, primary production, nitrogen fixation, calcification and respiration. Current topics under investigation include the size-scaling of phytoplankton abundance and metabolism, the relative role of temperature and resources in controlling microbial growth, and the biogeochemical variability of the subtropical gyres.