Karla Catalina Martínez-Cruz

My research interest is focused on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that lead to carbon release and uptake in a variety of aquatic ecosystems. I am particularly interested in greenhouse gases such as CO2 and  CH4.


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since 2020 Post-Doc at the University of Konstanz, Germany
2017-2020 Associate Professor and Researcher at EnBEELab, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
2016-2017 Postdoctoral fellow at University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
2012-2016

PhD in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico.

Research stays:

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, INE. Fairbanks, USA.

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Neuglobsow, Germany

2009-2011 MSc. in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico.
2004-2008 Bachelor in Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca, Mexico.

Publications

L Cabrol, F Thalasso, L Gandois, A Sepulveda-Jauregui, K Martinez-Cruz, R Teisserenc, N Tananaev, A Tveit, MM Svenning, M Barret: Anaerobic methane oxidation and associated microbiome in anoxic water of Northwestern Siberian lakes. Science of the Total Environment, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139588, 2020.

F Thalasso, A Sepulveda-Jauregui*, L Gandois, K Martinez-Cruz, O Gerardo-Nieto, MS Astorga-España, R Teisserenc, C Lavergne, N Tananaev, M Barret, L Cabrol: Sub-oxycline methane oxidation can fully uptake CH4 produced in sediments: case study of a lake in Siberia. Scientific Reports, in press, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60394-8, 2020.

K Martinez-Cruz, A Sepulveda-Jauregui, S Greene, A Fuchs, M Rodriguez, N Pansch, P Casper: Diel variation of CH4 and CO2 dynamics in two contrasting temperate lakes. Inland Waters, in press, doi: 10.1080/20442041.2020.1728178, 2020.

K Martinez-Cruz, A Sepulveda-Jauregui, P Casper, K Water Anthony, K Smemo, F Thalasso: Ubiquitous and significant anaerobic oxidation of methane in freshwater lake sediments. Water Research, 144, 332-340; doi: /10.1016/j.watres.2018.07.053, 2018.

K Martinez-Cruz, M-C Lewis, I C Herriot, A Sepulveda-Jauregui, K Walter Anthony, F Thalasso, M-B Leigh: Anaerobic oxidation of methane by aerobic methanotrophs in sub-Arctic lake sediments. Science of the Total Environment, 607–608, 23–31; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.187, 2017.