Marta Estrada Miyaras

Marta Estrada Miyares (born 1946) is a Catalan researcher, with a career in oceanography and marine biology. Her most prominent studies are based on the physiological characterization and ecological impact of algae and phytoplankton. and the Institute of Fishery Research (IIP), that she defended in 1976 under the title Studies of populations of aquatic organisms in a non uniform medium. As a result, she graduated as Doctor in Biology with a Prize for the most outstanding doctoral thesis from the University of Barcelona.

In parallel, at the end of the 60s, Estrada was part of the scientific team of the research vessel Cornide de Saavedra, which featured strongly in Spanish oceanographic research. Her roles included the control of the on-board computer, the characterization of chlorophyll and primary production, and recording temperature, salinity and nutrient data. In 1971, she obtained the position of Scientific Collaborator at the IIP (currently Institute of Marine Sciences, ICM-CSIC), which she took in 1972 after a six-month stay at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and on board of the costa-rican research vessel Thompson. In 2017, the Barcelona city council awarded her with the Honours Medal, together with the lawyer and politician Magda Oranich and the singer José María Sanz Beltrán, Loquillo.

Honours and institutional affiliations Since 1996, she has been a member of the Catalan Society of Biology, becoming vicepresident In December 1999 she was also named elected Academic of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona. In the entry celebration she gave a speech titled 'Hydrodynamics and phytoplankton of the Catalan sea'.

In 2016, the Granollers' High School was named after her, receiving the name IES Marta Estrada as a recognition of her scientific and technological merits.

Other associations and entities of which Marta Estrada is or has been a member and/or affiliated to include:

ICES Advisory Committee on Marine Pollution (1989–1992) AD- ENA-WWF World Wildlife Foundation (1990–1992) Physiological Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (1992–1998) Scientific and Steering Committee (1998–2000) del programa internacional Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) de la UNESCO (SCOR/IOC-UNESCO) Working Group 97 del Special Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) del International Council for Science (ICSU) Several teams of experts about climate change in Catalonia Jury of the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology Centre Excursionista de Catalunya

Selection of research publications Selected works:

Marta Estrada. 2011. Ecologia de les marees roges: discurs de recepció de Marta Estrada i Miyares com a membre numerària de la Secció de Ciències Biològiques. Editor Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Secció de Ciències Biològiques, 35 pp. , Clara Llebot, Yvette H. Spitz, Jordi Solé, Marta Estrada. 2010. The role of organic nutrients and dissolved organic phosphorus in the phytoplankton dynamics of a mediterranean bay. A modeling study. Journal of Marine Systems 83: 192–209. Jordi Solé, Antonio Turiel, Marta Estrada, Clara Llebot, Dolors Blasco, Jordi Camp, Maximino Delgado, Margarita Fernández-Tejedor, Jorge Diogène. 2009. Climatic forcing on hydrography of a Mediterranean bay (Alfacs Bay). Continental Shelf Res. 29 (200): 1786–1800. Marta Estrada, Peter Henriksen, Josep M. Gasol, Emilio O. Casamayor, Carlos Pedrós-Alió. 2004. Diversity of planktonic photoautotrophic microorganisms along a salinity gradient as depicted by microscopy, flow cytometry, pigment analysis and DNA-based methods. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49: 281–283. Marta Estrada. 2004. El Dr. Ramón Margalef y la oceanografía. Colaboró Sociedad Española de Ficología. 2 pp. Marta Estrada, Elisa Berdalet, Magda Vila, Cèlia Marrasé. 2003. Effects of pulsed nutrient enrichment on enclosed phytoplankton: ecophysiological and successional responses. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 32: 81–71. Marta Estrada, Ramiro A. Varela, Jordi Slat, Antoni Cruzado, Enric Arias. 1999. Spatio-temporal variability of the winter phytoplankton distribution across the Catalan and North Balearic fronts (NW Mediterranean). Journal of Plankton Research, 21: 1-20. Marta Estrada, Elisa Berdalet. 1998. Effects of turbulence on phytoplankton. D.M. Anderson, A.D. Cambells, G.M Hallegraeff (eds.). Physiological ecology of harmful algal blooms. NATO-ASI Series, vol. G41, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 601–618. Marta Estrada. 1995. Dinoflagellate assemblages in the Iberian upwelling area. En: Lassus, P., Arzul, G., Erard, E., Gentien, P., Marcaillou, C. (eds.): Harmful marine algal blooms. Technique et Documentation. Lavoisier, Intercept Ltd. Cachan, pp: 157–162. Marta Estrada. 1995. El fitoplancton antártico. Vol. 167 de Informes técnicos de Scientia Marina. Editor Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (CSIC), 15 pp. Marta Estrada. 1986. Mareas rojas. Vol. 132 de Informes técnicos del Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras. Editor Centro Nacional de Ciencias del Mar, 16 pp. Marta Estrada. 1978. Estudios sobre poblaciones de organismos acuáticos en medio no uniforme. Editor Universidad, Secretariado de Publicaciones, Intercambio Científico y Extensión Universitaria, 28 pp.