Antón Álvarez Salgado

Birth Place: Vigo
 Curriculum

He took a degree (1989) and a doctor’s degree (1993) in Chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela and specialised in Chemical Oceanography. Throughout his professional career, he has worked as a temporary researcher at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory of the United Kingdom (1995–1996) and the Institute of Marine Research (1996–1998). He was a Professor of postgraduate courses, university extension, doctorate courses and master degrees at the University of Vigo (since 1996), researcher (1999-2005) and scientific researcher (since 2006) of the Spanish National Research Council.
His research lines focus on the study on the carbon cycles and the nutrient salts in coastal, platform and ocean waters of the North Atlantic with a special emphasis in the ecosystem of coastal upwelling of Galicia both from the exploitation of life resources and global change points of view. He has participated in thirty-eight research projects financed by the European Union, the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Xunta de Galicia and was the main researcher in twenty-one of them. He is the author or joint author of eighty research articles published in indexed magazines at the Science Citation Index related to Oceanography and Marine Ecology and has directed six doctoral theses.

 Work & Activities

 

SELECTED REFERENCES:
1.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., G. Rosón, F.F. Pérez and Y. Pazos (1993): Hydrographic variability off the Rias Baixas (NW Spain) during the upwelling season. Journal of Geophysical Research 98: 14447–14455.
2.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., G. Rosón, F.F. Pérez, G. Figueiras and Y. Pazos (1996): Nitrogen cycling in an estuarine upwelling system, the Ría de Arousa (NW, Spain). I: Short–time scale patterns of hydrodynamic and biogeochemical circulation of nitrogen species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 135: 259–273.
3.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A. and A.E.J. Miller (1998): Simultaneous determination of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in seawater by high temperature catalytic oxidation: conditions for accurate shipboard measurements. Marine Chemistry 62: 325–333.
4.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., J. Gago, B.M. Míguez and F.F. Pérez (2001): Net ecosystem production of dissolved organic carbon in a coastal upwelling system: The Ría de Vigo, Iberian margin of the North Atlantic. Limnology & Oceanography 46: 135– 147.
5.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., F.G. Figueiras, F.F. Pérez, S. Groom, E. Nogueira, A.V. Borges, L. Chou, C.G. Castro, G. Moncoiffé, A.F. Ríos, A.E.J. Miller, M. Frankignoulle, G. Savidge and R. Wollast (2003): The Portugal Coastal Counter Current off NW Spain: new insights on its biogeochemical variability. Progress in Oceanography 56: 281–321.
6.      Piedracoba S., X.A. Álvarez–Salgado, G. Rosón and J.L. Herrera (2005): Short time scale thermohaline variability and residual circulation in the central segment of the coastal upwelling system of the Ría de Vigo (NW Spain) during four contrasting periods. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: C03018, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002556.
7.      Nieto–Cid M., X.A. Álvarez–Salgado and F.F. Pérez (2006): Microbial and photochemical reactivity of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in a costal upwelling system. Limnology & Oceanography 51: 1391–1400.
8.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., J. Arístegui, E.D. Barton and D.A. Hansell (2007): Contribution of upwelling filaments to offshore carbon export in the subtropical Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Limnology & Oceanography 52: 1287–1292.
9.      Álvarez–Salgado X.A., U. Labarta, M.J. Fernández–Reiriz, F.G. Figueiras, G. Rosón, S. Piedracoba, R. Filgueira and J.M. Cabanas (2008): Renewal time and the impact of harmful algal blooms on the extensive mussel raft culture of the Iberian coastal upwelling system (SW Europe). Harmful Algae 7: 849–855.
10.  Lønborg C., K. Davidson, X.A. Álvarez–Salgado and A.E.J. Miller (2009): Bioavailability and bacterial degradation rates of dissolved organic matter in a temperate coastal area during an annual cycle. Marine Chemistry 113: 219–226.