Research Projects

Characterisation of the effects of sargassum events and wastewater discharges on the coasts of the Mexican Caribbean based on coral records.

• Use of nitrogen isotopes in corals to identify changes in the environmental conditions of the Mexican Caribbean.
• Reconstruction of the effects of sargassum influxes and wastewater discharges on the nitrogen cycle of coral reefs.
• Integration of geochemical and coral growth records to characterise the spatial and temporal evolution of these impacts over recent decades.

Project PAPIIT IA100125 · DGAPA · UNAM

Pelagic sargassum forms floating ecosystems that provide shelter, food and breeding grounds for a wide diversity of marine organisms. The platform lets you explore the species associated with floating mats of Sargassum fluitans and Sargassum natans, and consult their main characteristics.

Project CBF2023-2024-1414 · Ciencia de Frontera · CONAHCYT

• Effect of Sargassum brown tides on seagrass meadows of the Mexican Caribbean.
• Growth and physiology study of pelagic Sargassum species.
• Early detection protocol for invasive alien species associated with sargassum (InvaSAR).

• Relationship between white syndrome in corals and environmental degradation caused by decomposing sargassum.
• Analysis of pelagic sargassum management on the northern coast of Quintana Roo.
• Monitoring of sargassum biomass arriving to the Mexican Caribbean.

• Bacterial community structure related to the increase in organic matter from sargassum (postdoc by Dr. Yessica Beltrán).
• Taxonomic characterisation of the sargassum microbiome and associated bacterioplankton.