Simone Jaqueline Cardoso - SMSP Fall Seminar Series 2024

Abstract: In the modern world, anthropogenic actions are changing the natural environment in unprecedented ways and critically compromising aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functions. This presentation aims to explore the effects of anthropogenic changes on ecosystem functioning, using plankton as a research model, and to share some of the preliminary results from the ongoing project at the Cornell Experimental Ponds Facility in Ithaca, NY

About Simone: Simone Cardoso is a biologist with a master’s degree and a PhD in Ecology. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Zoology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) - Brazil. She is a permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Biodiversity and Nature Conservation and the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Plankton Ecology (LABEP) at UFJF.  In her research group, alongside undergraduate and graduate students, she conducts basic and applied research on aquatic ecology. Currently, her interests are focused on improving the understanding and predictability of the effects of anthropogenic changes on aquatic ecosystems functions, often using planktonic communities as study models. Throughout her scientific training and professional activities, she has sought to understand different aspects of anthropogenic pressures on ecosystems and aquatic communities, with emphasis on the effects of eutrophication, presence of invasive species, greenhouse gas emissions, mining tailings, emerging pollutants and more recently, the effects of floating solar plants.