Dr. Frangópolus is a researcher at the Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG).

B.Sc., mention in Biology, University of Magallanes, earned his PhD. in Biology at the University of Vigo, Spain. He did his postdoc at the zooplankton laboratory in the Department of Ecology and Animal Biology at the same university.

In 2003, the newspaper, El Mercurio, included Dr. Frangópolus in the “100 leaders that are changing Chile”. He is currently working on research in biological oceanography, with a focus on the ecology and autoecology of species that produce harmful algal blooms (HABs, or red tide), studying the role global changes have played in increased occurrences of HABs at the local level.

Dr. Saldías obtained his degree in Marine Biology from the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, and he holds a Master’s in Oceanography from the Universidad de Concepción as well as a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, at Oregon State University, USA. He is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Departament of the Universidad de Bío-Bío.

Dr. Saldías’ primary area of research is coastal oceanography. He is a specialist in the processing and analysis of high-resolution satellite information and in observations with autonomous underwater vehicles for coastal ocean studies. His research includes the impact of fluvial plumes on the coastal ocean in eastern boundary systems – including the central and far-southern Chilean coast, the Iberian Peninsula, and Oregon – and their relationship with climate variability.

He is currently doing postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia, focusing on numerical modelling of the circulation in submarine canyons, with a special emphasis on high-latitude systems.

Dr. Lange is an academic from the Department of Oceanography of the Universidad de Concepción and a researcher at the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS).

Dr. Lange holds a degree in Biology and a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has participated in diverse national and international projects, scientific committees, and oceanographic cruises.

Her areas of specialization are paleoceanography and microfossils of silica skeletons (marine diatoms). At present, Dr. Lange’s research focuses on the Southern Ocean, including the fjords of the Chilean Patagonia and Antarctic Peninsula.

Dr. Lange is a founder and coordinator of the study group “Atmosphere-ocean changes in the Southeast Pacific – from glacial/interglacial to instrumental time-scales”, through the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute, in Delmenhorst, Germany, and is an associate member of the Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn”, in Naples, Italy.

Researcher in the Scientific Department of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH).

Marine Biologist with a Major in Oceanography and Environmental Quality at the University of Concepcion. PhD in Oceanography at the same university. She did her postdoctoral fellow at the University Austral of Chile.

She studied oceanography of the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic systems, the impacts of aquaculture on natural systems and geochemistry of marine and coastal sediments. She has also been dedicated to identifying marine diatoms (unicellular microscopic algae) in freshwater sediments as indicators of climate change. She is a researcher in the Scientific Department of INACH.

Researcher at the Research Center on Patagonian Ecosystems (CIEP) and Professor of the University Austral of Chile at Coyhaique. Marine Biologist, with M.Sc. in Oceanography at the University of Concepcion and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Most of Dr. Torres’ research has centered on the study of carbon, silica, and iron cycles in marine ecosystems. He is currently participating in four funded research projects aimed at understanding the effect of ocean acidification and global warming on the physiology, behavior, and habitat of marine organisms. Dr. Torres is a member of diverse groups such as Grupo SCOR 145 (focused on modeling chemical speciation in seawater) and Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (aimed at global monitoring of ocean acidification).

He has directed the study of the chemistry of Subantarctic and Antarctic waters during IDEAL oceanographic campaigns in the Patagonian and Antarctic Archipelago.