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Cartagena Piensa offers the talk 'Antarctica, climate change and exploration', given by Pablo Martínez Ros.
The event will take place at the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center on Tuesday, May 15, at 8:00 p.m.
The conference is one of the activities of the Cartagena Piensa program of the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena.
The talk will be offered by the researcher of the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC), Pablo Martínez Ros, and the event will be presented by Cayetano Gutiérrez Pérez of the Grupo Promotor Cartagena Piensa.
The objective of the conference will be to narrate how researchers try to solve the CLAW Hypothesis in the remote regions of the Earth.
The CLAW hypothesis is based on the premise that marine microorganisms are capable of emitting a series of volatile compounds (trace gases) that, when they reach the atmosphere, are capable of forming clouds.
These clouds in turn would help less ultraviolet radiation reach the surface of the ocean and, therefore, damage to the cellular DNA of the emitting organisms themselves would be avoided.
"When researchers," says Rodríguez Ros, "we try to study these processes in areas close to human activities, it is very complex because, as a consequence of burning fossil fuels and other processes, the role of trace gases emitted by the plankton Marine is masked. "
To solve the CLAW Hypothesis, researchers have to chase phytoplankton "blooms" through the Southern Ocean, turning the entire Antarctic continent around or performing experiments on the reefs of a minuscule tropical island in the middle of the immense Pacific Ocean.
PABLO MARTÃNEZ ROS
Pablo Rodríguez Ros (Cartagena, 1990).
Bachelor of Environmental Sciences (UMU) with "Extraordinary End of Degree Award" and Master in Global Change (UIMP-CSIC).
Currently, he is a Predoctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC), where he does his doctoral thesis in Marine Sciences about the oceanic emission of trace gases of climatic importance.
For this, he has participated in four oceanographic campaigns sailing in the Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic oceans;
being one of the four Spanish participants in the first international scientific expedition of Antarctic circumnavigation.
He has also made research stays in Switzerland and Canada.
At the same time, in 2014 he created, together with the science journalist Llúcia Ribot, the popularization blog called Super Science Me, in which he has narrated live his experiences on board research ships and events during the doctorate.
Now he prepares the next expedition to Moorea and the public outreach contest for Public Institutes of Secondary Education to which he gives his name: #MooreaMe.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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