Historical Review of Research on Fisheries vs. Climate Changes and Proposals for the Future in a Global Warming Context

As a PhD in biological oceanography (1996), I work at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (in the Oceanographic Center of Malaga). I have been coordinator of multidisciplinary and inter-institutional oceanographic projects in the Alboran Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, and Gulf of Cádiz (1991-1997), with the participation of more than 30 researchers. I am currently the principal investigator of the project “Useful historical marine data for the 21st century”. I have attended numerous national and international congresses on oceanography and the history of science. I have published more than 50 scientific papers, more than 65 informative texts (articles and book chapters), and three books on the history of Spanish oceanography. I am the editor of two multidisciplinary books with the participation of more than 100 researchers: “100 years of researching the sea. The Spanish Institute of Oceanography in its centenary (1914-2014)” and “The Strait of Gibraltar: natural key between two seas and two continents” (2023). I have been a curator in three exhibitions for the dissemination of national marine sciences in Madrid (2012, 2022) and Cartagena (2014). I was the president of the organization of the XXV Biennial of the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History (Málaga, 2023), and I have collaborated with multiple knowledge transfer activities with different entities, the Navy, academies, universities, museums, foundations, and associations.

I am a biologist specializing in Biological Oceanography. My scientific interests include planktonic ecology and associated oceanographic variables. I began my studies in Biology at the University of Malaga (Spain), and I had an Erasmus+ scholarship in 2016 at the Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic), collaborating with the Department of Fisheries and Hydrobiology. In 2019, I got an Erasmus Internship at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom), focused on the study of phytoplankton. I did my Final Degree Project at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC, Oceanographic Center of Málaga) in the Climate Change group, entitled “Comparative study of phytoplankton and oceanographic patterns in the Alboran Sea and Gulf of Cádiz”. During 2019-2020 I studied for a Master of Oceanography at the University of Cádiz (Spain), where I specialized in Coastal Oceanography. I completed my Master's Thesis at the IEO-Malaga, entitled “Seasonal, spatial and interannual patterns of phytoplankton distribution in the Gulf of Cádiz”. In parallel, I have participated in various national and international congresses presenting my research on biological oceanography, along with topics of scientific dissemination and the history of science. Since 2022, I have been working as a Research Technician at the IEO-Malaga. To date, I have participated in eight oceanographic cruises on several ships.