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Luis Medina

Lecturer and IDEA Fellow, Sustainable Climate Justice and Solutions

Education:

Ph.D.2022

- Stony Brook University

Research Topics:

Oceanic distributions of microplastics (MPs) and black carbon (BC) particles. Their interaction with marine organisms. Effects in Ocean biogeochemistry and their contribution to natural organic particle pools. Understanding of MP’s and BC’s effects on global carbon budgets. Raman Microspectrospectroscopy

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  • Bio/Research

    Bio/Research

    I am using vibrational spectrometry techniques (Raman microspectroscopy and Fourier Transform-InfraRed (FT-IR) as a powerful tool for quantifying and identifying the chemical signature of microplastic (MP) and Black Carbon (BC) particles from environmental samples at very fine spatial scales of less than 1µm. I have been developing protocols for the use of this technology to address some of the unanswered questions about MP and BC pollution.

    I am interested in combining approaches that will help in establishing the mechanisms of horizontal transport and vertical fluxes of MP and BC particles, calculating more realistic estimates of MP and BC abundances in the ocean, establishing a mass balance, determining which clades of bacteria or fungi, are responsible for the in situ degradation of these rich-carbon particles in the ocean, and evaluating how unintentional inclusion of MPs and BC in carbon cycling measurements might distort our models of how the ocean processes natural carbon

  • Publications

    Publications

    • Medina Faull L, Taylor GT, Beaupré, SR. Microplastics, an Uncharacterized Fraction of the Ocean´s Organic Carbon Inventory. (In Review). Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.
    • Medina Faull L, Zaliznyak T, Taylor GT. Assessing Diversity, Abundance and Mass of Microplastics (~1 to 300 µm) in Aquatic Systems (2021). Limnology and Oceanography Methods. doi: 10.1002/lom3.1043.
    • Medina Faull L, Mara P, Taylor GT, Edgcomb VP. Imprint of trace dissolved oxygen on prokaryoplankton community structure in an oxygen minimum zone. (2020)Frontiers Marine. Science. 7:360.
    •  doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00360  
    • Medina Faull L, Craig D. Taylor, Maria G. Pachiadaki, Carlos Henríquez-Castillo, Osvaldo Ulloa and Virginia P. Edgcomb. A Review of Protist Grazing Below the Photic Zone Emphasizing Studies of Oxygen-Depleted Water Columns and Recent Applications of In situ Approaches. (2027). Frontiers in Marine Science. Vol 4. Doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.10105
    •  Medina Faull L, Varela Ramón. Comparison of temperature, precipitation, average wind speed and direction, measures for two weather stations located in Punta de Piedras, Isla Margarita. (2017). Memorias Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales. 74(181–182): 61–80. ISSN 2443–4968.
    • Elizabeth A. Suter, Mary I. Scranton, Stephanie Chow, Dallyce Stinton, 
    • Luis Medina Faull, Gordon T. Taylor. Niskin bottle sample collection aliases microbial community composition and biogeochemical interpretation. (2026). Limnology and Oceanography. 62: 606-617. Doi: 10.1002/lno.1044.
    • Medina Faull L, Castañeda Julián, Fermín Ivis, Pérez-Castresana Gabriela, and López-Monroy Fabiola. Temporal and spatial variations of the flow and transport of nutrients of the Manzanares River.(2013). Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela. 52 (2): 67-75. 
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