Ariane Arias-Ortiz

Ariane Arias Ortiz

Postdoctoral Researcher

Education

PhD, Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autonònoma de Barcelona (2019)

MSc, Oceanography and Marine Environmental Management, Universitat de Barcelona (2014)

BSc, Environmental Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2013)

Research Interests / Specializations:

Coastal Wetlands, Seagrass, Mangroves, Blue Carbon, Eddy Covariance, Sediment Radiometric Dating, Biogeochemistry, Climate Change

Research Description:

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley Biometeorology Lab. My research focuses on understanding the capacity of Blue Carbon ecosystems in storing carbon at different time scales and under different land-uses. I study the balance between carbon burial, carbon emissions, and lateral export in different wetland types, as well as the processes that control soil organic matter decomposition and associated CO2 and CH4 emissions.

Selected Publications

Arias-Ortiz, A., Oikawa, P. Y., Carlin, J., Masqué, P., Shahan, J., Kanneg, S., Paytan A., Baldocchi, D.D.. (2021). Tidal and nontidal marsh restoration: A trade-off between carbon sequestration, methane emissions, and soil accretion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126, e2021JG006573. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006573

Arias-Ortiz, A., Masqué, P., Glass, L. et al. (2020). Losses of Soil Organic Carbon with Deforestation in Mangroves of Madagascar. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00500-z

de los Santos, C. B., Scott, A., Arias-Ortiz, A., Jones, B., Kennedy, H., Mazarrasa, I., ... & Ambo-Rappe, R. (2020). Seagrass ecosystem services: assessment and scale of benefits. Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, 19-21.

Arias-Ortiz, A., Masqué, P., Garcia-Orellana, J., Serrano, O., Mazarrasa, I., Marbà, N., Lovelock, C.E., Lavery, P.S., Duarte, C.M. (2018) Reviews and syntheses: 210Pb-derived sediment and carbon accumulation rates in vegetated coastal ecosystems – setting the record straight. Biogeosciences, 15, 6791-6818.

Arias-Ortiz, A., Serrano O., Masqué, P., Lavery, P.S., Mueller, U., Kendrick, G.A., Rozaimi, M., Esteban, A., Fourqurean, J.W., Marbà, M., Mateo, M.A., Murray, K., Rule, M.J., Duarte, C.M. (2018) A marine heatwave drives massive losses from the world’s largest seagrass carbon stocks. Nature Climate Change 8, no. 4: 338.

Marbà, N., Arias‐Ortiz, A., Masqué, P., Kendrick, G. A., Mazarrasa, I., Bastyan, G. R., Garcia-Orellana, J. and Duarte, C. M. (2015). Impact of seagrass loss and subsequent revegetation on carbon sequestration and stocks. Journal of Ecology, 103(2), 296-302.