BioSWOT-Med cruise : Interview with Elvira Pulido

High frequency and precision to study nutrients concentration in the Mediterranean Sea

Elvira Pulido is the leader of WP3 dedicated to nutrients in the ocean. She describes the importance of measuring nutrients concentration in the ocean – as they ultimately control biological activity and diversity – and how they are going to measure them in the BioSWOT-Med campaign.

THE RESEARCH THEMES: Elvira Pulido is a marine biogeochemist with a general interest on nutrient cycling at the surface ocean. She’s particularly interested on the oligotrophic ocean where nutrient scarcity limits biological activity and, thus, carbon export is highly dependent on nutrient availability. Currently, she uses high-sensitive techniques to measure phosphate concentration in seawater in order to gain further insight of the phosphorus cycle in the surface ocean, particularly concerning the mechanisms involved in phosphate supply to the euphotic zone and the bioavailability of the organic phosphorus pool. Elvira Pulido is a CNRS researcher and she works at the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) in Marseille, France.

Contact: Tosca Ballerini

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