Lorena Romero Martinez
Marine Ecologist
Biography
My research interests orbit around community and population ecology. Over the past eight years I have worked in projects that utilise molecular approaches to understand and safeguard aquatic biodiversity. I’ve been involved in studies of hybridization events between invasive and endemic species, development of SNP regions to study speciation events in fish species, and the reconstruction of ancient planktonic communities from sedimentary DNA.
I’ve specialised in plankton ecology in the marine environment, particularly in coastal temperate habitats. Among my expertise are integrative (DNA base and morphology-based) taxonomic analyses, High Throughput Sequencing Metabarcoding, barcoding and microsatellites. As well as field working experience in Tanzania, Galapagos and the Mediterranean Sea.
Recently, I began working with BAS as a post-doc in the Darwin plus project -Fish bycatch in the Antarctic krill fishery-, to investigate identifications uncertainties in fish species in order to develop enhanced identification tools for species that are unintentionally caught in the Krill fishery.
Ines Barrenechea Angeles, María Lorena Romero-Martínez, Marco Cavaliere, Stefano Varrella, Fabio Francescangeli, Roberta Piredda, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Marina Montresor, Antonio Schirone, Ivana Delbono, Francesca Margiotta, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Salvatore Chiavarini, Maria Rita Montereali, Juri Rimauro, Luisa Parrella, Luigi Musco, Antonio Dell’Anno, Michael Tangherlini, Jan Pawlowski, Fabrizio Frontalini. 2023. Encapsulated in sediments: eDNA deciphers the ecosystem history of one of the most polluted European marine site. Environment International 172(344):10773.
María Lorena Romero-Martínez, Nicolás Moity, Byron Delgado, Jacqueline Rodríguez, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui. 2020, Drifting marine snakes around the Galapagos Archipelago. Galapagos Research 69: 38-42.
- Marine Ecologist, Ecosystems team
- Researcher, Fisheries Society of the British Isles
- Researcher, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography