Grado en Biología (2022 - 2023)

HERNANDEZ PEREZ, JOSE CARLOS

Categoría profesional: Profesor/a Contratado Doctor
Formación académica fundamental:
•PhD. Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. 28 September 2006. Sobresaliente-Cum laude. “Estrategia reproductiva de la población canaria del erizo Diadema aff. antillarum Philippi, 1845: maduración gonadal, asentamiento larvario y reclutamiento”.

•Advances Studies Certificate or Research Aptitude Test (DEA) on Marine Science. Universidad de La Laguna, October 2003. Sobresaliente-Cum laude.

•Master Dissertation Defense: “Estrategia reproductiva de la población canaria del erizo Diadema antillarum Philippi (ECHINOIDEA: DIADEMATIDAE)”. June 2003. Sobresaliente-Cum laude.

•Bachelor in Marine Biology, Universidad de La Laguna. Academic course: 2000-2001. Promotion 1996-2000.
 
Breve currículo profesional genérico:
Profesor Contratado Doctor 2013 – Current
Departmento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología
UDI. Ciencias Marinas
Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Islands

Profesor Ayudante Doctor 2010 – 2013
Departmento de Biología Animal
UDI. Ciencias Marinas
Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Islands

National Science Foundation Postdoc 2007 – 2010
Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA
Oregon State University, Oregon, USA

Research assistant 2004 – 2006
Departamento de Biología Animal
UDI. Ciencias Marinas
Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Islands

Marine Biologist – Environmental consulting 2001 – 2003
Universidad de La Laguna & Taxon Estudios Ambientales SL
 
Breve currículo investigador:
My research experience spans a broad range of marine ecological and biological investigations with a strong focus on in situ sub-tidal surveys and experimental work which has spanned > 1200 research dives over the past 15 years. Much of my work has focused on investigating the effects of human impacts on marine ecosystems such as overfishing and ocean acidification. Yet, these impacts occurred in a multidimensional environment and are linked to other stressors. Hence, I am also interested in climate change, UV increase, pollution, eutrophication-hypoxia, habitat loss and spread of invasive species, and their web of interactions and feedbacks. The one thing in common of all my work is that it is supported by basic observations from nature combined with experimental manipulations. In my opinion, global change research should be based on a strong knowledge of the local natural history and the biology of the species in concert. In this sense, I focus on combining long data sets of the environment and biota to figure out the underlying ecological story.

Central to my interests is the biology and population dynamic of sea urchins, especially, key habitat modifying species that generate widespread collapse from macroalgae beds to undesired sea urchin-dominated barren grounds. On biological aspects of these invertebrates, I have explored a variety of topics across their life cycle, such as larvae development, settlement, reproduction, growth and mortality. At the community level, I have investigated the establishment and stability of alternative ecosystem states and the positive feedback mechanisms that provide resilience for each state. In this sense, I have an especial interest on study human-derived stressors that can act to erode resilience of desirable macroalgal beds while strengthening resilience of urchin barrens, thus exacerbating the risk, spatial extent and irreversibility of an unwanted regime shift for marine ecosystems. For this research topic, I have work at different Marine Protected Areas, as large-scale human exclusion ecosystem experiments, to test communities’ responses to human activities (mainly harvesting).

From larvae to marine ecosystems research, my ultimate goal is to promote high quality scientific knowledge to identify management actions promoting sustainability of important ecosystem services: fish resources, habitat regeneration, oxygen production, CO2 absorption, etc. Throughout my research and teaching I seek to growth a sustainable humanity conscience to reduce human impacts on the oceans and prolong our lives on Earth, because our future as species is the ocean.
 
Líneas de investigación: Zoology
Marine Community Ecology
Marine Conservation
 
Portal del investigador: Enlace al Portal de la Investigación
Fecha de la última modificación: 31-07-2021
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Todo el cuatrimestre Martes 09:30 14:30 Sección de Biología - AN.3A Cuarta torre Biología (Ciencias Marinas)
Todo el cuatrimestre Jueves 09:30 14:30 Sección de Biología - AN.3A Cuarta torre Biología (Ciencias Marinas)
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