Catarina V. Guerreiro
Profile
Research Group: RG2 โ Earth Surface Processes
Position at IDL: Colaboradora (CEECIND 30%)
Job: Marine researcher
Email: cataguerreiro@fc.ul.pt
Academic Degree and field of specialization:
PhD in Geology, Specialization in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Ciรชncias ULisboa, Portugal
Scientific Informations
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8524-540X
SCOPUS ID (link); https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25821635900
Research ID (link); https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/M-7745-2013
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catarina_Guerreiro
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MyT1Y28AAAAJ&hl=pt-PT&oi=sra
Website: https://www.mare-centre.pt/pt/user/5898 | http://www.chase-dust.com
Keywords: Marine Biogeosciences, Calcifying Phytoplankton, Air-Ocean-Seafloor interactions, Marine Carbon Pumps , Atlantic Ocean
Scientific Interests
Main Interests:
ยท (Paleo)ecology and biogeochemistry of coccolithophores
ยท K-selected (equilibrium) vs. r-selected (opportunistic)
ยท Marine Primary Production and Carbon Cycle
ยท Primary ecological signal (photic zone) vs. Taphonomy (sediment)
ยท Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS)
ยท Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, Iberian Continental Margin
ยท Submarine canyonsโ ecological/oceanographic dynamics
ยท In-situ vs. satellite remote sensing data
Portuguese representative for SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) https://www.solas-int.org
Member of JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network), endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade (WG the Carbonate Pump) https://jetzon.org
Board of Directors of the Foundation of the International Nannoplankton Association https://ina.tmsoc.org/ina/INAfoundation/index.htm
Member of the International Society for Aeolian Research (ISAR) https://aeolianresearch.wordpress.com
Member of the Scientific Council of the College on Polar and Extreme Environments (Polar2E) https://polar2e.ulisboa.pt
Member of the Portuguese Association of Oceanography (APOCEAN) https://apocean.wordpress.com
Top 10 Publications:
Ferreira, A., Mendes, C.R.B., Costa, R.R., Brota, V., Tavano, V.M., GUERREIRO, C.V., Secchi, E., Brito, A.C. (SUBMITTED). Phytoplankton trends in a changing climate: higher biomass and longer blooms in the West Antarctic Peninsula", in peer-review in Nature Communications on 11 January 2024 (ref.: NCOMMS-24-01910-T).
GUERREIRO, C.V., Ziveri, P., Cavaleiro, C., Stuut, J-B. (ACCEPTED) Coccolith-calcite Sr/Ca as a proxy for transient export production related to Saharan dust deposition in the tropical North Atlantic, Nature Scientific Reports, February 2024.
Baek, J-Y., GUERREIRO, C.V., Kim, J-S, Nam, J., Jo, Y-H. Coastal Environmental Changes related to the construction of the Saemangeum Seawall in the Yellow Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1307218. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1307218
GUERREIRO C.V., Ferreira A, Cros L, Stuut J-B, Baker A, Tracana A, Pinto C, Veloso V, Rees AP, Cachรฃo M, Nunes T, Brotas V., 2023. Response of coccolithophore communities to oceanographic and atmospheric processes across the North- and Equatorial Atlantic. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1119488. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1119488
Brotas V, Ferreira A, Veloso V, Tracana A, GUERREIRO, C.V., Tarran GA, Woodward EMS, Ribeiro L, Netting J, Clewley D and Groom SB, 2023. Assessing phytoplankton community composition in the Atlantic Ocean from in situ and satellite observations. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1229692, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1229692
Ferreira, A., Brito, A.C., Mendes, C.R.B., Brotas, V., Costa, R.R., GUERREIRO, C.V., Sรก, C., Jackson, T., 2022. OC4-SO: A New Chlorophyll-a Algorithm for the Western Antarctic Peninsula Using Multi-Sensor Satellite Data. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 1052. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051052
GUERREIRO, C. V., Baumann, K.-H., Brummer, G.-J. A., Valente, A., Fischer, G., Ziveri, P., Brotas, V. and Stuut, J.-B. W., Carbonate fluxes by coccolithophore species between NW Africa and the Caribbean: implications for the biological carbon pump. Limnol. Oceanogr. 9999, 2021, 1โ19, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11872
Korte, K., Brummer, G.-J., van der Does, M., GUERREIRO, C.V., Mienis, F., Munday, C., Ponsoni, L., Schouten, S., Stuut, J.-B., 2020. Multiple drivers of production and particle export in the western tropical North Atlantic. Limnology & Oceanography, 9999, 1-17.
Korte, L., Pausch, F., Trimborn, S., Brussaard, C., Brummer, G.-J., van der Does, M., GUERREIRO, C.V., Schreuder, L., Munday, C., Stuut, J.-B., 2019. Effects of dry and wet Saharan dust deposition in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean, Biogeosciences Discussions.
GUERREIRO, C. V., Baumann, K.-H., Brummer, G.-J. A., Fischer, G., Korte, L. F., Sรก, C. and Stuut, J.-B. W., 2019. Transatlantic gradients in calcifying phytoplankton (coccolithophore) fluxes, Progress in Oceanography 176, 102140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102140
GUERREIRO, C. V., Baumann, K.-H., Brummer, G.-J. A., Fischer, G., Korte, L. F., Merkel, U., Sรก, C., de Stigter, H., and Stuut, J.-B. W., 2017. Coccolithoph
ore fluxes in the open tropical North Atlantic: influence of thermocline depth, Amazon water, and Saharan dust, Biogeosciences 14, 4577-4599, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4577-2017
Projects (10 most relevant):
CHASE (CHASing the environmental Effects of dust deposition across the Atlantic and Southern Ocean: a coccolithophore perspective), FCT-funded CEECIND/00752/2018/CP1534/CT0011). Role: Principal Investigator.
PRIMUS (PRIMary-productivity in Upwelling Systems), funded by the European Space Agency (ESA Contract No. 4000135025/21/I-NB). Role: Project Outreach Manager (WP8) and Earth Science Case lead (WP5.8): โComparison of sediment trap data in the Canary upwelling system using standard and Lagrangian approaches to primary productionโ.
Med-Trap (Unravelling seasonal dust-induced productivity changes in the Mediterranean Sea) funded by UU-NIOZ (Netherlands). Role: team member responsible for implementing and supervising the coccolithophore biogeochemical component of the project.
SINES (CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON OCEAN FRONTS ECOSYSTEMS: The case of the Iberian Upwelling System). Ship-time and marine Equipment Application (SEA) Programme call "REGIONAL", EUROFLEETS-Plus Sarmiento de Gamboa (CSIC, Spain). Role: team member responsible for developing the phytoplankton and coccolithophore component of the project.
PORTWIMS (PORTugal TWInning for innovation and excellence in marine Science and Earth observation). EUโs H2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant no. 810139), 2018โ2021. Role: marine scientist and coccolithophore expert; responsible for planning MARE's participation on AMT28 and AMT29 cross-Atlantic expeditions (team member).
DUSTCO (Effects of atmospheric DUST on COccolithophore Production), funded by EU H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 (grant no. 796802), 2018โ2020. Role: Principal Investigator.
ECOPELAGOS (Response of the pelagic ecosystem to climate change in the Southern Ocean), funded by the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development, 2018โ2023. Role: team member.
Coccolithophores as indicators of ocean-productivity variability induced by trans-Atlantic fluxes of Saharan dust. MSC-COFUND project funded by EU and Uni-Bremen (EU FP7 COFUND, grant no. 600411), 2015โ2017. Role: Principal Investigator.
PROPOLAR PHYTO-UP (Response of two Southern Ocean PHYTOplankton Species to climate-driven changes in the UPper Ocean), FCT-funded, 2020โ2021. Role: marine scientist and coccolithophore expert (team member).
PROPOLAR FACT (Links between phytoplankton dynamics and climate Forcing in NW AntarCTica), FCT-funded, 2019โ2020. Role: marine scientist and coccolithophore expert (team member).
PROPOLAR PHYTO-NAP (Phytoplankton response to climate trends in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula), FCT-funded, 2018โ2019.Role:marine scientist and coccolithophore expert (team member).
Conferences (last 15 presentations):
GUERREIRO, C.V, Ferreira, A., Cros, A., Stuut, J-B., Baker, A., Tracana, A., Pinto, C., Veloso, V., Rees, A., Cachรฃo, M., Nunes, N., Brotas, V., 2024. Response of coccolithophore communities to Saharan dust deposition in the tropical North Atlantic. Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), Session AI009 on โThe Biogeochemistry of Air-Sea Exchange Processesโ, February 18-23, New Orleans, Lousiana (USA).
Ferreira, A., Schofield, O., Brito, A.C., Brotas, V., Costa, R.R., Waite, N., Diou-Cass, Q., GUERREIRO, C.V., Mendes, C.R.B., 2024. Biases in phytoplankton size class models in the Antarctic Peninsula: how well do we know our diatoms? Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), Session OB33B: Phytoplankton Ecology at Large Scalesโ, February 18-23, New Orleans, Lousiana (USA).
Stuut, J-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., van der Does, M., Matzenbacher, B., Koornneef, J., 2023. Monitoring present-day Saharan dust above and below the ocean surface. Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), Session AI009 on โThe Biogeochemistry of Air-Sea Exchange Processesโ, February 18-23, New Orleans, Lousiana (USA).
Brotas, V., Ferreira, A., Veloso, V., Tracana, A., GUERREIRO, C.V., Tarran, G., S. Woodward, E. M., Netting, J., Clewley, D., Groom, S. Spatial patterns of phytoplankton size structure in the Atlantic Ocean Regions. TPS Foundation Science Symposium on โTrends, Reflections, Evolution, and Visions in Ocean Researchโ, 7-11 August 2023, PML, UK.
Groom, S., Jรถnsson, B., Sathyendranath, S., Tilstone, G., Jackson, T., Land, P., Kulk, G., Hockley, K., Alvarez-Salgado, P., Arรญstegui, J., Hernandez, N., Brotas, V., GUERREIRO, C.V., Brito, A., Gomes, M., Oliveira, P., Garrido, S., Whittle, C., Smith, M., Restano, M., Benveniste, J. Primary-productivity in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS). TPS Foundation Science Symposium on โTrends, Reflections, Evolution, and Visions in Ocean Researchโ, 7-11 August 2023, PML, UK.
Stuut, J-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., van der Does, M.,2023. Monitoring present-day Saharan dust above and below the ocean surface. XXI INQUA Congress 2023, Session 35 - Dust dynamics through the Quaternary: terrestrial records of climatic and environmental impacts, 13 - 20 July 2023, Rome, Italy.
Stuut, J-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., Brummer, G-J., van der Does, M., 2023. Monitoring present-day Saharan dust above and below the ocean surface. EGU General Assembly 2023, Session AS3.10 โAeolian dust: initiator, player, and recorder of environmental change, 23โ28 April, Viena, Austria.
Stuut, J-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., Brummer, G-J., van der Does, M., 2022. Monitoring present-day Saharan dust above and below the ocean surface. Open Science Conference on EBUS: Past, Present and Future & Second International Conference on the Humboldt Current System, Session 7: Understanding the driving factors of marine productivity in EBUS. Lima, Peru, September 19-23, 2022.
Aristegui, J., Groom, S., Jรถnsson, B., Sathyendranath, S., Tilstone, G., Ciavatta, S., Jackson, T., Land, P., Hockley, K., รlvarez-Salgado, A., Brotas, V., GUERREIRO, C.V., Brito, A., Oliveira, P., Garrido, S., Hernรกndez-Hernรกndez, N., Whittle, C., Smith, M., Restano, M., Benveniste, J., 2022. Primary-productivity in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS). Open Science Conference on EBUS: Past, Present and Future & Second International Conference on the Humboldt Current System, Session 7: Understanding the driving factors of marine productivity in EBUS. Lima, Peru, September 19-23, 2022.
GUERREIRO, C.V., Baumann, K-H., Brummer, G-J., Valente, A., Ziveri, P., Brotas, V., Stuut, J-B., 2022. Drivers of coccolithophore CaCO3 export production between NW Africa and the Caribbean: implications for the biological carbon pump. Open Science Conference on EBUS: Past, Present and Future & Second International Conference on the Humboldt Current System, Session 7: Understanding the driving factors of marine productivity in EBUS. Lima, Peru, September 19-23, 2022.
Kulk, G., Groom, S., Jรถnsson, B., Sathyendranath, S., Tilstone, G., Ciavatta, S., Jackson, T., Land, P., Hockley, K., Alvarez- Salgado, P., Arรญstegui, J., Brotas, V., GUERREIRO, C., Ferreira, A., Brito, A., Oliveira, P., Garrido, S., Whittle, C., Smith, M., 2022. โESA Atlantic Regional Initiative: Primary Production in Upwelling Systems (PRIMUS)โ. European Space Agency 2022 Living Planet Symposium, 23-27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany.
Stuut, J.-B., GUERREIRO, C., Brummer, G.-J., and van der Does, M., 2022. Monitoring present-day Saharan dust at sea. EGU General Assembly 2022, Session AS3.10 โAeolian dust: initiator, player, and recorder of environmental change (online)
Ferreira, A., Brito, A.C., Mendes, C.R.B., Brotas, V., Costa, R., GUERREIRO, C.V., Sรก, C., Jackson, T. 2021. OC4-SO algorithm: improving satellite retrievals of chlorophyll a in the Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Data Forum IV, 23-24 September, Online. Oral Presentation
GUERREIRO, C. V., Baumann, K.-H., Brummer, G.-J. A., Valente, A., Fischer, G., Ziveri, P., Brotas, V. and Stuut, J.-B. W., 2021. Influence of dust on the export production of calcifying phytoplankton (coccolithophores): implications for the biological carbon pump. GEOTRACES and SOLAS Workshop โ โIron at the Air-Sea Interface Workshopโ, Asheville, NC, USA, 26-30 July 2021, Online.
Stuut, J.-B., Guerreiro, C., Brummer, G.-J., and van der Does, M.: Present-day Saharan dust observed over the Atlantic Ocean, EGU General Assembly, online, 19โ30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7449, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7449, 2021.
Stuut, J.-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., Brummer, G.-J., Korte, L., van der Does, M., 2020. Present-day Saharan dust fluxes across the Atlantic Ocean. EGU General Assembly 2020, 4โ8 May 2020, Online.
Ferreira, A., Sรก, C., Brito, A.C., Brotas, V. Costa, R.R., GUERREIRO, C.V., Mendes, C.R., 2019. PHYTONAP โ Combining 10 years of in-situ data with remote sensing datasets to assess recent changes in the North Antarctic Peninsula phytoplankton. 11ยช Conferรชncia Portuguesa de Ciรชncias Polares, 24-25 de Outubro, Coimbra, Portugal.
Stuut, J.-B., GUERREIRO, C.V., Munday, C., van Crimpen, F., Pausch, F., Brummer, G.-J., Yu, H., Prospero, J., Korte, L., Schreuder, L., van der Does, M., Mahowald, N., Zuidema, P., Laan, P., Trimborn, S., Merkel, U., 2019. Deposition of Saharan dust and its marine environmental impacts. 3rd inDust Joint Working Group meeting (InDUST - International Network to Encourage the Use of Monitoring and Forecasting Dust Products), Porto, Portugal, 22-25 Oct 2019.
Awards:
2020 โ CHASE funded by FCT program โStimulus of Scientific Employment - individual support - CEEC (up to 179 kโฌ)
2018 โ Marie Skลodowska-Curie European (MSCA) Fellowship (149 kโฌ)
2017 โ Travel grant for the PAGE-DICE workshop โ โThe Role of Dust in Climate Change: a biogeochemistry perspectiveโ, Las Cruces, Chile, January 2018 (1,8k USD);
2015 โ Marie Skลodowska-Curie (MSCA) COFUND Fellowship (BREMENTRAC, 135 kโฌ);
2014 - Best Poster Presentation, 16th Conf. of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG), October 2014, New Delhi, India;
2014 - Travel grant for the 16th Conference of IAMG (1 kUSD);
2014 - Mathematical Geosciences Student Award, IAMG and Springer (2,5 kUSD);
2009 โ PhD Grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation (58 kโฌ);
2006 โ Best Oral Presentation (post-grad student), 11th International Nannoplankton Association (INA), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA;
2004 โ Best Poster Presentation (post-grad student), 10th Conf. of INA, Lisbon, Portugal.