Ocean Seminar Series: "About Potentially Toxic Elements and coastal - marine pollution research from Mazatlán", by Carlos R. Green

Carlos R. Green Ruiz, senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), will be giving a seminar next Wednesday, December 14th. The seminar is organised in the framework of the Ocean Seminar Series.
The event can also be followed online through Zoom.

Title: "About Potentially Toxic Elements and coastal - marine pollution research from Mazatlán"
 

Presenter: Carlos René Green Ruiz, senior researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
 

Date: Wednesday, December 14th 2022
Time: 12:00
Venue: Sala Antoni Rosell (Z/022 - Z/023) ICTA-UAB & Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88212394424?pwd=Wkt4UlRTY2E3Umh3Sk9iWmZ2bEg2Zz09

Abstract
Dr. Carlos R. Green Ruiz is going to introduce us to the activities of the Environmental Geochemical and Sedimentology Laboratory at Mazatlan, Mexico. For more than 20 years, research in the EGSL has been focused on potentially toxic elements (such as mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, and so on) pollution, in several coastal and marine environmental compartments. Topics include not only knowing the spatial and temporal distribution and geochemical behavior of these contaminants, but also observing their ecotoxicological effects on marine organisms (polychaetes), testing several organic and inorganic materials for employing in remediation techniques, and more recently, understanding their pathways into the coastal zone and the knowledge about their interaction with other pollutants, especially microplastics. Nowadays, the research on microplastic per se pollution has started to be developed at the EGSL.

Bio
Dr. Carlos René Green Ruiz is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has a degree in Marine Geology from the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur and a master's and a doctorate in Marine Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He also did a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Diego and a sabbatical year at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Right now, he is doing a sabbatical year in UAB with the GRAB group. Dr. Green-Ruiz´s research focuses on marine and coastal pollution (coastal wetlands), mainly in the field of potentially toxic elements in environmental compartments (ground- and marine water, sediments, and aquatic organisms). Recently, he has ventured into the area of measuring ²²²Rn as an indicator of the contribution of groundwater to the coastal zone and in the dispersion of microplastics as emerging contaminants.