Operational oceanography; Oceanographic instrumentation; Oceanographic-meteorological real-time platform; Aquaculture; Upwelling; Climate change

Co-supervisor
Camila Sola, Miss (ended)
Bachelor of Marine Biology
Universidad Andrés Bello
Date: From 1-12-2018 to 31-12-2019
Course/Activity: Bachelor Thesis
Research Title:
‘Efectos de la variabilidad ambiental asociada a la surgencia costera en la bahía de Tongoy sobre la calcificación, crecimiento y mortalidad del ostión del norte Argopecten purpuratus’
Qualification: 6.6 / 7.0

Chapter Scientist, Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 WGII, Chapter 12 – Central and South America of the Working Group II Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - AR6 (2018-2021).

OUTREACH
2019. Participation in the development of: “Technical guide for the aquaculture student: Environmental parameters, organism biology, culture technology and principles for climate change adaptation”. Available at: http://www.ceaza.cl/guiatecnica-acuicultura/.
2019. Fundación Mar y Ciencia. Mujeres de Mar. 2019. Interview. Available: http://maryciencia.org/contenido/inicio/maria-valladares-nuestro-oceano-no-ha-sido-muestreado-lo-suficiente-una-desventaja-ante-el-cambio-climatico/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fundacionmaryciencia/
2018. ESMOI. 2018. I Roto Te Moana o Rapa Nui, Marine Biodiversity of Rapa Nui. Oceanography: Oceanographic conditions in the ecoregion of Easter Island. Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile. 173 pp. Available at: http://www.esmoi.cl/science-digest/
2018. Outreach talk "Oceanographic measurements in Juan Fernández archipelago" hold in Sindicato de Pescadores, Robinson Crusoe island.
2018-present. Member of local environmental NGO Surgencia, focused on protection, conservation and education in marine and coastal ecosystems, Coquimbo (Chile).
2016-2018. MAEX program (CEAZA). Knowledge transfer activities within the project “Strengthening R&D, development of abilities and technological foundations for the adaptation to climate change in the bivalve aquaculture” in the Aquaculture Technical School Carmen Rodríguez Henríquez de Tongoy.

CONFERENCES
2019. Olavarria C, Buchan S, Santos-Carvallo M, Oyanadel J, Sepulveda M, Ramos M, Valladares M, Maldonado M, Stone M. Fin and blue whale distribution, diet and zooplankton backscatter around Isla Chañaral, Northern Chile. World Marine Mammal Conference, Barcelona.
2018. Yannicelli B, Ramos M, Veliz D, Dewitte B, Bravo L, Hernández K, Meerhoff R, Amaral V, Testa G, Varela C, Valladares M, Zambra D. Challenges for conservation in oceanic islands: an oceanographic perspective on Easter Island and Salas y Gomez, isolated islands in the most oligotrophic ocean gyre. XXXVIII Congreso Ciencias del Mar, Valdivia (Chile).
2018. L. Antonio Cuevas, Paulina Y. Contreras, Narváez Diego, Bernardo Broitman, María Valladares & Cristian A. Vargas. Series de tiempo del sistema de carbonatos. Ejemplos de estudio en la zona costera. XXXVIII Congreso Ciencias del Mar, Valdivia (Chile).
2018. Ramajo, L., Rodriguez-Romero, A., Núñez, Y., Fernández, C., Caballero, P., Valladares, M., Watt, P., Nuñez, M., Poupín, MJ., Broitman B., Lardies, M. “Understanding physiological mechanisms of Chilean scallop to the multiple-stressor scenario of upwelling by using an experimental integrative approach”. Kiel 2018 Ocean Deoxygenation Conference.
2017. Bravo, L; Ramos, M.; Valladares, M. Variabilidad estacional de las Corrientes inerciales sobre la plataforma marina de Isla Rapa-Nui. V DOCA, Concepción (Chile).
2017. Pérez-Santos, I.; Bravo, L.; Ramos, M.; Narváez, D.; Valladares, M; Donoso, D. Procesos de mezcla vertical desde la costa a Islas Desventuradas (24-27ª S). V DOCA, Concepción (Chile).
2017. Lara, C.; Pinochet, A.; Núñez, M.; Valladares, M.; Contreras, P.; Cuevas, A.; Vargas, C.; Broitman, B. MODIS desde espacio: variaciones temporales de la Clorofila-a y Temperatura Superficial del Mar en la Bahía de Tongoy. V DOCA, Concepción (Chile).
2017. Yannicelli, B.E.; Brokordt, K.; Gallardo, M.A.; Núñez, V.; Oyarce, P.; Ramos, M.; Rojas, I.; Sellanes, J.; Thiel, M.; Valladares, M. "Temperature-oxygen modulation of Pleuroncodes monodon reproductive variability: laboratory and field observations during ENSO 2015-2016". ASLO Hawai'i.
2015. Marcel Ramos, Edward Peñalver, Luis Bravo, Marcelo Valdebenito, María Valladares. “Oceanographic conditions evolution in Huasco (~20°30'S) El Niño 2015”. IV Congreso de Oceanografía Física, Meteorología y Clima. 18-20 November 2015.