Dr. Andrés S. Rigual Hernández

Overview / specialty

My research interest lies in the role of microplankton the marine carbon and silica cycles and in the application of microfossils to palaeoceanographic
reconstructions. I intend to gain a better understanding of the ecology of diatom species and the processes that transform the diatom assemblages from their initial production in the photic zone until their eventual preservation in the fossil record. This knowledge is fundamental for documenting their climatic effects and for estimating the global budget of silicate and carbon
exported to the ocean interior. This understanding is also needed to quantitatively assess the information preserved in the sediment record.