Tesis de Máster
La elaboración de una Tesis de Máster de 18 (itinerario profesional) o 30 créditos ECTS (itinerario investigador) es un requisito para la consecución del Título. Esto implica la elaboración y defensa en inglés de un trabajo original de investigación relacionado con la temática del Máster. Pueden consultarse las directrices para la elaboración de la Tesis de Máster aquí. Durante el curso 2009-2010, las temáticas de las Tesis de Máster pueden encuadrarse dentro de las siguientes líneas de investigación:
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-Ecología del bacterioplancton heterotrófico
-Investigador responsable: Xosé Anxelu G. Morán (xelu.moran@gi.ieo.es)
-Resumen de las actividades: Relaciones entre la estructura fisiológica individual y la actividad total de las comunidades bacterianas. Interacciones tróficas entre fitoplancton y bacterias. Determinación del papel de las bacterias en el ciclo biogeoquímicos del carbono en ecosistemas pelágicos.
-Proyectos activos financiados relacionados con ésta línea de investigación: FAMOSO, RADIALES
- Carácter: bibliográfico/experimental/aplicado experimental, bibliográfico
-Research Line: Ecology of heterotrophic bacterioplankton
-Researcher in charge: Xosé Anxelu G. Morán
-Summary of activities: Relationships between single-cell physiological structure and bulk activity of bacterial communities. Trophic interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria. Determination of the role of bacteria in carbon biogeochemical cycling in pelagic ecosystems.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: FAMOSO, RADIALES
Type: bibliographic/experimental/applied experimental, bibliographic. (inicio)
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-Hybridization and introgression in South African hakes .
-Researcher in charge: Eva Garcia-Vazquez, University of Oviedo (egv@uniovi.es) and Francis Juanes, University of Massachusetts (juanes@nrc.umass.edu)
-Summary of activities: students will employ molecular markers for detecting and quantifying interspecific hybridization and introgression between the two sympatric African hakes Merluccius capensis and M. paradoxus. The results will serve for understanding speciation in the marine realm and can be of relevance for fisheries management.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: Spanish National Project MICINN
-Type: Experimental and applied.(inicio)
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-Long term changes in marine ecosystems and species.
-Researcher in charge: Ricardo Anadón,University of Oviedo (ranadon@uniovi.es)
-Summary of activities: Evaluation o long term changes related with Climate Change in the environmental physical and chemical conditions, the dynamic of pelagic ecosystem and over the distribution and abundance of species. Also the indirect effects promoted by the Interactions between species. Special attention was paid on changes on phenology, productivity, and trophic interactions, as well as the indirect effects driving by these changes
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: Convenio IEO-Univ Oviedo. Proyecto COSTAS
-Type: Experimental/Applied.(inicio)
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-Investigaciones biogeoquímicas. Efecto del cambio de pH del mar sobre organismos planctónicos calcáreos. Análisis experimental y comparativo en el contexto del cambio global.
-Researcher in charge: Renate Scharek, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón (rscharek@gi.ieo.es)
-Summary of activities: Un aspecto importante del cambio global es el incremento de CO2 en la atmósfera y la bajada de pH en los océanos (pH presente: 8.2; nivel preindustrial: pH 8.3, pH 7.9 hasta el final de este siglo). Se ha visto que un pH más bajo tiene un efecto pernicioso en la calcificación de organismos planctónicos calcáreos como cocolitoforidos (fitoplancton), y foraminíferos, pteropodos y larvas de metazoos (zooplancton). Muchos de estos organismos juegan un papel importante en los ciclos biogeoquímicos a través de las redes tróficas y de la llamada bomba biológica que acelera el transporte vertical de carbono desde las capas superficiales al fondo de los océanos.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: FAMOSO-Troph ( (MICINN, Plan Nacional de I+D+I)
-Type: experimental.(inicio)
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-Ecología del fitoplancton marino
- Investigador responsable: Mikel Latasa, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón (latasa@icm.csic.es)
- Resumen de las actividades: Análisis de pigmentos de fitoplancton mediante HPLC
- Proyectos activos financiados relacionados con ésta línea de investigación: FAMOSO, RADIALES
- Carácter: experimental/aplicado.(inicio)
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-Oceanographic and climatic variability and the population dynamics of small-pelagic fish.
-Researcher in charge: Enrique Nogueira (enrique.nogueira@gi.ieo.es) and Rafael González-Quirós (rgq@gi.ieo.es), Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón.
-Summary of activities: Integrative analyses of oceanographic and climatic variables and biological parameters and fisheries information of sardina and anchovy in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula from databases. Analisys of plankton and ichthyoplankton samples from oceanographic cruises. Participation in oceanographic surveys.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: ECOANCHOA-As, HEMOLAR (Molecular tools in fish larval ecology), LP_PELNOR (Long-term variability in the pelagic ecosystem of the North Iberian shelf; submitted to the Plan Nacional de Investigación Básica).
-Type: databases/experimental.(inicio)
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-Ecology of macroalgal invasive species
-Researcher in charge: José Manuel Rico Ordás, University of Oviedo (jmrico@uniovi.es)
-Summary of activities: introduced macroalgal species. Vectors for introductions. Impact on native communities
-Currently funded projects related to this research line:
-Type: experimental.(inicio)
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-Ecology of gelatinous zooplankton
-Researcher in charge: José Luis Acuña, University of Oviedo (acuna@uniovi.es)
-Summary of activities: Experimental, field and theoretical research on survival strategies, bioenergetics and biodiversity of appendicularians, salps, jellyfish and other gelatinous organisms. Experiments are based on appendicularian cultures at the University of Oviedo and jellyfish cultures at the Gijón’s Aquarium.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: Circunnavigation Expedition Malaspina 2010: Global Change and Biodiversity. Exploration of the Global Ocean (MALASPINA 2010; CONSOLIDER Project); Characterization and modelling of benthos and plankton communities along the Asturian coast (COSTAS; MEC2006-CTM2006-05588).
-Type: experimental/theoretical.(inicio)
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-Nearshore plankton Ecology.
-Researcher in charge: José Luis Acuña, University of Oviedo (acuna@uniovi.es) -Summary of activities: Cross-shore transport by nearshore oceanographic fronts is key for the arrival of meroplanktonic larvae, plastic, garbage, fuel, and other materials to the coast. Potential tasks involve the determination and modelling of the position, frequency and variability of nearshore fronts in time scales from hours to years and from local to landscape spatial scales. Concurrent analysis of larval recruitment patterns will allow identification of the role of nearshore fronts on the connectivity of coastal populations, a key element in the design of networks of Marine Protected Areas.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: Characterization and modelling of benthos and plankton communities along the Asturian coast (COSTAS; MEC2006-CTM2006-05588); Frentes de retención larvaria en la costa de Cudillero, IB08-120.
-Type: experimental.(inicio)
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-Phylogeography in marine organisms .
-Researcher in charge: Eva Garcia-Vazquez, University of Oviedo (egv@uniovi.es) .
-Summary of activities: Based on genetic data, students will reconstruct the phylogeographic history of different marine species .
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: EU 7 FP SALSEA- Merge
-Type: Experimental.(inicio)
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-Aplication of paleoproductivity indicators in sediments to identify changes in marine productivity in the past; analysis of culture samples to calibrate new indicators of algal productivity and physiology
-Researcher in charge: Heather M. Stoll, University of Oviedo (hstoll@geol.uniovi.es).
-Summary of activities: Analysis of chemistry of coccoliths from sediment or cultures and measurement of algal physiology in culture.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: EC ERC Starting Grant, U.S. National Science Foundation Grant
-Type: Experimental/applied.(inicio)
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-Marine Protected Areas
-Researcher in charge: Juan Carlos Castilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (jcastilla@bio.puc.cl) and José Luis Acuña, University of Oviedo (acuna@uniovi.es
- Summary of activities: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly used as tools to preserve biodiversity and to manage populations of marine exploited species. The focus of this research line is on the design, implementation, and monitoring of MPAs. All three aspects rely on thorough knowledge on the spatial distribution of habitats, species and human impacts, on the patterns of connectivity among disjunct populations and on the interplay between ecology, society and economy. Research may involve comparative analysis among management systems (e.g. Chilean vs. Cantabrian coasts, bottom-up vs. top- down), countries (e.g. developing vs. developed), exploited species (e.g. commercially valuable barnacles vs. gastropods), monitoring systems (e.g. contrasting observation and sampling designs), fishing practices (artisanal vs industrial),etc,... The work may also use available software packages to generate alternative MPA configurations (e.g. MARXAN; http://www.uq.edu.au/marxan/) or to conduct adaptive management of MPAs (e.g. ECOSPACE; http://www.ecopath.org/), using realistic spatial scenarios generated from existing databases. Use of available MPA databases (i.e. World Database on Marine Protected Ares; http://www.wdpa-marine.org/#/countries/about) may allow tests of hypothesis on how different countries manage their MPA networks, and to stablish relationships between MPA configurations and the socioeconomic status of their countries. Depending on funding possibilities, students may develop part or all of their work at Chile, and participate in the activities at the "Las Cruces" Marine Protected Area (http://www.ecim.cl/history/exclusion/), adyacent to the Marine Research Laboratory of the Universidad Pontificia de Chile, where the first controlled human exclusion experiments took place more than 25 years ago, generating a rich and far reaching series of more than 100 scientific papers, and triggering a new paradigm in the management of marine resources.
-Currently funded projects related to this research line: Frentes de retención larvaria en la costa de Cudillero, IB08-120; LINCGlobal (http://www.lincg.uc-csic.es/).
-Type: Experimental/Theoretical/applied.(inicio)