Octavio Quintanar Retama
Post Doc Research Instituto de Ciencias del Mar UNAM · Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Biography
A biologist who graduated from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences, he holds a Master’s degree from the UNAM Graduate Program in Marine Sciences and Limnology and a Ph.D. in Science from the UNAM Graduate Program in Biological Sciences. He has published six articles in indexed journals, five of them as first author and two as corresponding author. He contributed to the development of a volume of the Environmental Baseline Atlas of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). He has participated in national and international conferences. He has participated in 15 oceanographic expeditions, in most of them as watch officer and leader of the group responsible for benthic sampling. He participated in the CIGoM project as the person responsible for analyzing benthic macrofauna and meiofauna communities, assisting in planning and leading the execution of sampling, processing samples in the laboratory, and preparing technical reports.
Education
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the UNAM School of Sciences, a Master’s degree in Marine Sciences and Limnology from the UNAM Graduate Program in Marine Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the UNAM Graduate Program in Biological Sciences.
Recent Scopus Publications
- Abundance and diversity patterns and environmental drivers of Peracarida (Arthropoda, Crustacea) macrofauna from the deep sea of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico
- Macrofauna abundance and diversity patterns of deep sea southwestern Gulf of Mexico
- Depth-related patterns and regional diversity of free-living nematodes in the deep-sea Southwestern Gulf of Mexico
- Polychaete dataset of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico including: taxonomic checklist, abundance, bathymetric distribution, functional diversity, geographic location, and sampling sites depth
- Diversity and distribution patterns of macrofauna polychaetes (Annelida) in deep waters of the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0314-3475
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5kFOdAIAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57211921082