Science Communication
Talks and presentations
Presentations I have given during my academic career, most recent first. Slides are shared openly whenever I am free to do so.
25 June 2025 — Microbial plankton uptake enhances the degradation of a biodegradable microplastic
Flash talk, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Switzerland. Main results on how marine microbial plankton interact with PLGA (poly lactic-co-glycolic acid), a biodegradable microplastic: to what extent and in which size ranges ciliate and nanoflagellate communities take the particles up, and whether their grazing accelerates the polymer’s degradation in seawater. Work carried out under the AQUACOSM-plus umbrella, in collaboration with Dr. Luca Schenone and Ulises Lora.
Published as Schenone et al. 2025, Microbial plankton uptake enhances the degradation of a biodegradable microplastic (Environmental Pollution) — code and data on Zenodo.
14 March 2024 — Beavers influence stream dissolved organic carbon by coupling terrestrial–aquatic ecosystems
13th Workshop on Floodplain Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland. Talk on whether beaver ponds act as a source or a sink of dissolved organic carbon in Swiss streams, based on 16 sites sampled in 2021–2022. I present the causal hypothesis as a directed acyclic graph, the upstream–downstream sampling design behind the delta-DOC outcome, and the roles of aquatic primary production, terrestrial inputs, and pond age.
December 2022 — Aquecimento do mar e o Atol das Rocas
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. Guest lecture on how ocean warming and marine heatwaves affect the food web of the Rocas Atoll, covering the thermal niches of the species involved, the long-term monitoring behind the work (PELD ILOC), and the modelling results and methods.
The presentation is in Portuguese.