Enrique Montes

Real name:

Current Position:

Research Associate

Positions:

2015-present: Research Associate at the College of Marine Sciense - University of South Florida

2011-2015: 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:

Natural and human-driven impacts on marine ecosystems; satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton; satellite biogeography; marine biodiversity; marine carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycling; stable isotopes and dissolved gases as tracers of marine biogeochemical processes.

Groups audience:

CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program

Publications

Muller-Karger F, Astor YM, Benitez-Nelson CR, Buck K.N, Fanning K.A, Lorenzoni L, Montes E, Rueda-Roa D, Scranton M.I., Tappa E et al.. In Press. The Scientific Legacy of the CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program.. Annual Review of Marine Science. 11
Lorenzoni L, Thunell RC, Benitez-Nelson CR, Montes E, Varela R, Astor YM, Muller-Karger F. 2019. From land to the ocean: the interplay between allochthonous and autochthonous contribution to particles in nepheloid layers of the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela. JGR Biogeosciences.
Muller-Karger F.E., Astor YM, Benitez-Nelson CR, Buck K.N, Fanning K.A, Lorenzoni L, Montes E, Rueda-Roa D, Scranton M.I., Tappa E et al.. 2019. The scientific legacy of the CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program. Annual Reviews Marine Science. 11:413-437.
Djurhuus A, Pitz K, Sawaya NA, Rojas-Marquez J, Michaud B, Montes E, Muller-Karger F, Breitbart M. 2018. Evaluation of marine zooplankton community structure through DNA metabarcoding. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. Djurhuus_et_al-2018-Limnology_and_Oceanography__Methods.pdf (758.34 KB)
Montero E, Francisco AMarta, Montes E, Herrera A. 2018. Salinity induction of recycling Crassulacean acid metabolism and salt tolerance in plants of Talinum triangulare. Annals of Botany. Salinity induction of recycling Crassulacean acid metabolism and salt tolerance in plants of Talinum triangulare (700.16 KB)
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)

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