Staff Profile

Jesús Pineda

Preferred Name: Jesus Pineda

Senior Scientist

Biology

Email: jpineda@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2274

Lab/Group Site: http://science.whoi.edu/labs/pinedalab/

Education

B.S. Escuela Superior de Ciencias Marinas, Ensenada, Mexico, U.A.B.C., 1983, Biological Oceanography
M.S. C.I.C.E.S.E., Ensenada, Mexico, 1987, Marine Ecology
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1993, Oceanography

Research Statement

We study the processes that determine the fluctuations and distribution of coastal marine bottom organisms such as barnacles, corals, and lobsters, with emphasis on how variability in circulation, temperature, and seafloor bathymetry influences the transport and aggregation of organisms, from small larvae to large marine animals, and from hourly to interannual scales. This knowledge is necessary for comprehending organismal response and population fluctuations and distribution of marine organisms, including response to climate change, and for understanding which coastal regions should be protected from anthropogenic disturbances such as climate change and fishing

Research Interests

• Benthic ecology and nearshore oceanography. Hydrodynamic forcing on shallow water benthic communities.
• Larval transport, larval dispersal and population connectivity.
• Larval behavior as related to larval transport.
• Settlement and recruitment.
• Population ecology.
• Large-scale ecology of shallow and deep-sea benthic communities.