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Dr Viena Puigcorbé

Viena is an Adjunct in the School of Science.

2016-present: Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
2010-2016: PhD, Environmental Sciences and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2009-2010: MSc, Marine Sciences and Oceanography, Universitat de Barcelona

2011 – 2012: FPU Visiting researcher fellowship at the Marine Science Program at the University of South Carolina (USA)

2014 - Invited to the Dissertation Symposium on Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXIV), Kaua’i, HI (USA)

Member of the Marine and Environmental Biogeosciences Research Group (MERS) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Research interests:

Marine biogeochemistry
Natural radionuclides
Planktonic community structures productivity and particle fluxes in the open ocean

Use of radioactive isotopes as tracers of particles in the ocean. Research Areas:

Southern Ocean: Influence of fronts and eddies in the planktonic communities and the elemental cycling of nutrients and trace metals
Arctic Ocean: Impact of the declining of sea-ice in the biogeochemical cycles and water masses circulation
Eastern Tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California: Role of small phytoplankton groups related to carbon export and export efficiency in oligotrophic regions
Atlantic Ocean: Particle export distribution at an oceanic basin scale as part of the GEOTRACES program
Mediterranean Sea: Impact of spring phytoplankton blooms related to atmospheric CO₂ uptake and sequestration.

ECU Foundation Business Centre to cover the travel cost to join the RV Investigator voyage IN2021-T01. Amount: up to 3,150 AUD
ECU SSci provided support to join the RV Investigator voyage IN2021-T01. Amount: 3,200 AUD
Open Access Support Scheme – ECU 2020, funded by Edith Cowan University, to assist researcher to make their publications available through Open Access. Amount received: 4,800 AUD
Trace metals in the Antarctic marginal ice zones. ECU SSci Research Grant 2019. Amount: 4,800 AUD
What controls the C/Th ratio in the global ocean? ECU SSci Early Research Grant 2018. Amount: 10,000 AUD
Bacterial colonization of particles and its assemblage shifts throughout the water column in the marginal ice zone of the Southern Ocean. ECU SSci Early Career Research Grant 2017. Amount: 8,400 AUD

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