Ignacio A. Catalán is a Research Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), based at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC–UIB) in Mallorca, Spain. His research focuses on fisheries oceanography and fish ecology, with an emphasis on the physical and biological processes that influence fish survival during early life stages, a key phase for recruitment and population dynamics. His work addresses early life history processes, recruitment variability, and connectivity in marine fish populations, with links to fisheries assessment, management, and conservation under climate change.
In recent years, his research has followed three main directions: (i) examining individual- and population-level responses of fish to environmental and physiological drivers, including climate change; (ii) improving the characterization and quantification of processes affecting recruitment and reproductive dynamics; and (iii) developing and applying new technologies based on computer vision and deep learning to automatically integrate biological and fisheries data, with the aim of supporting more efficient, science-based fisheries management. Ignacia will be a guest with the Fjord and Coastal Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen. He will be staying until the end of May and will be happy to exchange ideas, experiences, and perspectives on any of these topics, and to have informal discussions around ongoing or future work.
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