Enrique Montes

Current Position:

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Positions:

2011-present: Postdoctoral investigator at the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing. University of South Florida

2009- 2011: Research Assistant for the CARIACO (Carbon Retention In A Colored Ocean) Ocean Time-series Program. University of South Florida.

2008-2009: Research Assistant. Marine Biogeochemistry Lab, School of Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

2006-2008: Fulbright fellow. Marine science Master’s program, USF

Education:

2011: Ph.D in Marine Science. University of South Florida, College of Marine Science. Advisor: Frank Muller-Karger

1998: B.S. in Biology. Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela

Research Interests:

Marine carbon and nitrogen cycling, effects of climate variability and human impacts on marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography.

Groups audience:

CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program

Publications

Lorenzoni L, Varela R, Rueda D, Muller-Karger F, Rojas J, Guzmán L, Astor Y, Montes E. 2017. Cambios Espaciales y Estacionales en la Hidrografia y Bioquimica de la Region de la Fosa de Cariaco. Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat.. 74(181-182) Lorenzoni_etal_2017_Cambios Hidrogr Bioquim Fosa de Cariaco_.pdf (1.46 MB)
Vega-Rodriguez M, Montes E, Muller-Karger FE. 2017. New insights on coral diversity from a Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) in the Florida Keys. Reef Encounter News Journal of International Society for Reef Studies 31(2): 63 - 66. 31(2):63-66.
Lorenzoni L, Rueda D, Montes E, Varela R, Rojas J, Guzmán L, Astor Y, Muller-Karger FE. 2017. Spatial variability in factors that control the sinking flux of organic and inorganic particles in the Cariaco Basin: a vision from space. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 38(22)
Montes E, Muller-Karger FE, Lorenzoni L, Cianca A, Lomas M, Habtes S. 2016. Decadal variability in the oxygen inventory of North Atlantic Subtropical Underwater captured by sustained, long-term oceanographic time-series observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 30 Montes_etal_2016_small.pdf (547.97 KB)
Lorenzoni L, Toro-Farmer G., Varela R, Guzmán L, Rojas J., Montes E, Muller-Karger FE. 2015. Characterization of phytoplankton variability in the Cariaco Basin using spectral, taxonomic and pigment data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 167 Lorenzoni_et_al_2015.pdf (1.42 MB)
Levin LA, Liu K-K, Emeis K-C, Breitburg DL, Cloern J, Deutsch C, Giani M, Goffarth A, Hofmann EE, Lachkar Z et al.. 2014. Comparative biogeochemistry–ecosystem–human interactions on dynamic continental margins. Journal of Marine Systems. Levin_et_al_2014.pdf (1.48 MB)
Muller-Karger FE, Kavanaugh MT, Montes E, Balch WM, Breitbart M, Chavez FP, Doney SC, al. et. 2014. A framework for a marine biodiversity observing network within changing continental shelf seascapes. Oceanography Magazine. 27, 18 - 23 27-2_muller-karger_6-11-14.pdf (1.47 MB)
Scranton MI, Taylor GT, Thunell RC, Benitez-Nelson CR, Muller-Karger FE, Fanning KA, Lorenzoni L, Montes E, Varela R, Astor Y. 2014. Interannual and decadal variability in the nutrient geochemistry of the Cariaco Basin. Oceanography Magazine. Scranton_et_al_2014.pdf (7.57 MB)
Scranton MI, Taylor GT, Thunell RC, Benitez-Nelson CR, Muller-Karger FE, Fanning KA, Lorenzoni L, Montes E, Varela R, Astor Y. 2014. Interannual and decadal variability in the nutrient geochemistry of the Cariaco Basin.. Oceanography. 27(1) Scranton_et_al_2014.pdf (7.57 MB)
Herrera A, Ballestrini CN, Montes E. 2014. What is the potential for dark CO2 fixation in the facultative crassulacean acid metabolism species Talinum triangulare? Journal of Plant Physiology. 174 herrera_ballestrini_montes_2014.pdf (648.07 KB)

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