# Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal (@npjuncal.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/npjuncal.eurosky.social
Headline: Postdoctoral researcher. Environmental Science PhD

## Experience

- **Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidade de Aveiro** (2022 – present)
- **Consultora Externa at Freelance** (2020 – 2021)
  Drafting of the Blue Carbon assessment methodologies proposed in Manual for the Creation of Blue Carbon Projects in Europe and the Mediterranean, and technical review of the manual. Commissioned by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- **Técnica de laboratório at CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS** (2015 – 2016)
  PALEOPARK Project (SPAIN). Field sampling and laboratory analysis of soil and sediment samples: grain size distribution, organic matter, organic C and carbonates content.
- **Research Associate at CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS** (2016 – 2019)
  Life Blue Natura Project (EU). Protocol development for Blue Carbon inventories. Carbon fluxes and stocks estimation in salt marsh and seagrass soils of the Andalusian coast (SW Mediterranean Sea).
  
  Tasks: Assistance field work-plan desing, laboratory work coordination, stocks and fluxes estimations, undergraduate students’ tasks coordination and organization and lectured of a three days international course in blue carbon assessment .

## Education

- **Universidade de Santiago de Compostela** — Doctor's Degree
- **Universidade de Santiago de Compostela** — Master's degree
- **Universidade de Santiago de Compostela** — Bachelor of Science - BS

## Skills

- Desarrollo de protocolos
- Suelo
- Carbono
- Muestreo
- Investigación
- Aptitudes de laboratorio
- Elaboración de informes
- Blue Carbon
- Análisis de datos
- R
- Microsoft Excel
- Programa GIMP

## Projects

- **Life Blue Natura (LIFE 14/CCM/ES/000957). Life Program, European Union.** — http://life-bluenatura.eu/en/home/
- **Advances in sampling techniques, biogeochemical characterization, and quantification of millenary deposits of seagrasses (SUMILEN). CTM2013-47728-R.**
- **Millenary changes in the insular Spanish National Parks: perturbations, resilience and trends after the seagrass archives (PALEOPARK). 1104/2014.**

## Publications

- A temporal record of microplastic pollution in Mediterranean seagrass soils — Environmental Pollution (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749121000294)
- Long-term dynamics of production in western Mediterranean seagrass meadows: Trade-offs and legacies of past disturbances — Science of the Total Environment (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720356461)
- Processes driving seagrass soils composition along the western Mediterranean: The case of the southeast Iberian Peninsula — Science of Total Environment (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720378839)
- Cover loss in a seagrass Posidonia oceanica meadow accelerates soil organic matter turnover and alters soil prokaryotic communities — Organic Geochemistry (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146638020301753)
- Pedogenic processes in a Posidonia oceanica mat — Soil Systems (https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/4/2/18)
- Modeling organic carbon accumulation rates and residence times in coastal vegetated ecosystems — JGR Biogeoscience (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JG005233)
- Potential microbial functional activity along a Posidonia oceanica soil profile — Aquatic Microbial Ecology (https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ame/v81/n2/p189-200/)