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Dr Viena Puigcorbé

Adjunct Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2737
Email: v.puigcorbelacueva@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO19.383  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5892-2305

Viena is an Adjunct in the School of Science.

Background / Employment History

  • 2016-present: Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
  • 2010-2016: PhD, Environmental Sciences and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • 2009-2010: MSc, Marine Sciences and Oceanography, Universitat de Barcelona

National and International Research Positions

  • 2011 – 2012: FPU Visiting researcher fellowship at the Marine Science Program at the University of South Carolina (USA)

Other

  • 2014 - Invited to the Dissertation Symposium on Chemical Oceanography (DISCO XXIV), Kaua’i, HI (USA)

Professional Associations

  • Member of the Marine and Environmental Biogeosciences Research Group (MERS) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Research Areas and Interests

Research interests:

  • Marine biogeochemistry
  • Natural radionuclides
  • Planktonic community structures productivity and particle fluxes in the open ocean

Use of radioactive isotopes as tracers of particles in the ocean. Research Areas:

  • Southern Ocean: Influence of fronts and eddies in the planktonic communities and the elemental cycling of nutrients and trace metals
  • Arctic Ocean: Impact of the declining of sea-ice in the biogeochemical cycles and water masses circulation
  • Eastern Tropical North Pacific and Gulf of California: Role of small phytoplankton groups related to carbon export and export efficiency in oligotrophic regions
  • Atlantic Ocean: Particle export distribution at an oceanic basin scale as part of the GEOTRACES program
  • Mediterranean Sea: Impact of spring phytoplankton blooms related to atmospheric CO2 uptake and sequestration.

Internal ECU Research Funding

  1. ECU Foundation Business Centre to cover the travel cost to join the RV Investigator voyage IN2021-T01. Amount: up to 3,150 AUD
  2. ECU SSci provided support to join the RV Investigator voyage IN2021-T01. Amount: 3,200 AUD
  3. Open Access Support Scheme – ECU 2020, funded by Edith Cowan University, to assist researcher to make their publications available through Open Access. Amount received: 4,800 AUD
  4. Trace metals in the Antarctic marginal ice zones. ECU SSci Research Grant 2019. Amount: 4,800 AUD
  5. What controls the C/Th ratio in the global ocean? ECU SSci Early Research Grant 2018. Amount: 10,000 AUD
  6. Bacterial colonization of particles and its assemblage shifts throughout the water column in the marginal ice zone of the Southern Ocean. ECU SSci Early Career Research Grant 2017. Amount: 8,400 AUD

Qualifications

  • International Doctoral Research, Spain, 2016.
  • Masters in Marine Science, Spain, 2010.
  • Bachelor in Environmental Science, Spain, 2009.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Rodellas, V., Roca-Marti, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Castrillejo, M., Casacuberta, N. (2023). Radionuclides as Ocean Tracers. Marine Analytical Chemistry (199-273). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14486-8_4.

Journal Articles

  • Strydom, S., McCallum, R., Lafratta, A., Webster, C., O'Dea, C., Said, N., Dunham, T., Inostroza, K., Salinas Zapata, C., Billinghurst, S., Phelps, C., Campbell, C., Gorham, C., Bernasconi, R., Frouws, A., Werner, A., Vitelli, F., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., D'cruz, A., McMahon, K., Robinson, J., Huggett, M., McNamara, S., Hyndes, G., Serrano Gras, O. (2023). Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production. Earth System Science Data, 15(1), 511-519. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-511-2023.
  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Ruiz-Gonzalez, C., Masque Barri, P., Gasol, JM. (2023). Impact Of Particle Flux On The Vertical Distribution And Diversity Of Size-Fractionated Prokaryotic Communities In Two East Antarctic Polynyas. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14(2023), article number 1078469. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1078469.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Zhong, Q., Li, L., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Huang, D., Yu, T., Du, J. (2022). Contrasting behaviors of 210Po, 210Pb and 234Th in the East China Sea during a severe red tide: Enhanced scavenging and promoted fractionation. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 41(8), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-021-1958-0.
  • Zhong, Q., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Chen, X., Rodellas, V., Wang, X., Yu, T., Du, J. (2022). Unexpectedly high dissolved210Pb in coastal groundwaters: Is submarine groundwater discharge important in coastal sea?. Chemical Geology, 614(2022), article number 121165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121165.
  • Ratnarajah, L., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Moreau, S., Roca-Martí, M., Janssens, J., Corkill, M., Duprat, L., Genovese, C., Lieser, J., Masque Barri, P., Lannuzel, D. (2022). Distribution and export of particulate organic carbon in East Antarctic coastal polynyas. Deep-Sea Research Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers, 190(2022), article number 103899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103899.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Roca-Martí, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Castrillejo, M., Casacuberta, N., Garcia-Orellana, J., Cochran, JK., Masque Barri, P. (2021). Quantifying 210Po/210Pb Disequilibrium in Seawater: A Comparison of Two Precipitation Methods With Differing Results. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(22 June 2021), Article number 684484. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.684484.
  • Clevenger, S., Benitez-Nelson, C., Drysdale, J., Pike, S., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Buesseler, K. (2021). Review of the analysis of 234Th in small volume (2-4 L) seawater samples: improvements and recommendations. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry: an International Journal dealing with all Aspects and Applications of Nuclear Chemistry, 329(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07772-2.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Masque Barri, P., Le Moigne, FA. (2020). Global database of ratios of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 in the ocean: improving estimates of the biological carbon pump. Earth System Science Data, 12(2), 1267-1285. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1267-2020.
  • Zhong, Q., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Sanders, C., Du, J. (2020). Analysis of 210Po, 210Bi, and 210Pb in atmospheric and oceanic samples by simultaneously auto-plating 210Po and 210Bi onto a nickel disc. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 220-221(September 2020), Article number 106301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106301.
  • Tesán Onrubia, JA., Petrova, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Black, EE., Valk, O., Dufour, A., Hamelin, B., Buesseler, KO., Masque Barri, P., Le Moigne, FA., Sonke, JE., Van Der Loeff, MR., Heimbürger-Boavida, L. (2020). Mercury Export Flux in the Arctic Ocean Estimated from 234Th/238U Disequilibria. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 4(5), 795-801. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00055.
  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Ruiz-Gonzalez, C., Masque Barri, P., Gasol, J. (2020). Sampling Device-Dependence of Prokaryotic Community Structure on Marine Particles: Higher Diversity Recovered by in situ Pumps Than by Oceanographic Bottles. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11(15 July 2020), Article number 1645. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01645.
  • Valk, O., Rutgers Van Der Loeff, MM., Geibert, W., Gdaniec, S., Moran, SB., Lepore, K., Edwards, RL., Lu, Y., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Casacuberta, N., Paffrath, R., Smethie, W., Roy-Barman, M. (2020). Decrease in dissolved 230Th in the Amundsen Basin since 2007: far field effect of increased scavenging on the shelf?. Ocean Science, 16(1), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-221-2020.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Zhong, Q., Du, J., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Wang, J., Wang, Q., Deng, B., Zhang, F. (2019). Accumulation of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in body profiles of Bryidae, a subgroup of mosses. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 26(27), 27872-27887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05993-3.
  • Moreau, S., Lannuzel, D., Janssens, J., Arroyo, M., Corkill, M., Cougnon, E., Genovese, C., Legresy, B., Lenton, A., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Ratnarajah, L., Rintoul, S., Roca-Marti, M., Rosenberg, M., Shadwick, E., Silvano, A., Strutton, P., Tilbrook, B. (2019). Sea Ice Meltwater and Circumpolar Deep Water Drive Contrasting Productivity in Three Antarctic Polynyas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(5), 2943-2968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015071.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Valk, O., Rutgers Van Der Loeff, M., Geibert, W., Gdaniec, S., Rijkenberg, MJ., Moran, SB., Lepore, K., Edwards, R., Lu, Y., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V. (2018). Importance of hydrothermal vents in scavenging removal of 230Th in the Nansen Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10,539-10,548. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079829.
  • Roca-Marti, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Friedrich, J., Rutgers Van Der Loeff, M., Rabe, B., Korhonen, M., Cámara-Mor, P., Garcia-Orellana, J., Masque Barri, P. (2018). Distribution of 210Pb and 210Po in the Arctic water column during the 2007 sea-ice minimum: Particle export in the ice-covered basins. Deep-Sea Research Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers, 142(December 2018), 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.09.011.
  • Schlitzer, R., Anderson, RF., Dodas, EM., Lohan, M., Geibere, W., Tagliabue, A., Bowie, A., Jeandel, C., Maldonado, MT., Landing, WM., Cockwell, D., Abadie, C., Abouchami, W., Achterberg, EP., Agather, A., Aguliar-Islas, A., Van Aken, HM., Andersen, M., Archer, C., Auro, M., De Baar, HJ., Baars, O., Baker, AR., Bakker, K., Basak, C., Baskaran, M., Bates, NR., Bauch, D., Van Beek, P., Behrens, MK., Black, E., Bluhm, K., Bopp, L., Bouman, H., Bowman, K., Bown, J., Boyd, P., Boye, M., Boyle, EA., Branellec, P., Bridgestock, L., Brissebrat, G., Browning, T., Bruland, KW., Brumsack, HJ., Brzezinski, M., Buck, CS., Buck, KN., Buesseler, K., Bull, A., Butler, E., Cai, P., Mor, PC., Cardinal, D., Carlson, C., Carrasco, G., Casacuberta, N., Casciotti, KL., Castrillejo, M., Chamizo, E., Chance, R., Charette, MA., Chaves, JE., Cheng, H., Chever, F., Christl, M., Church, TM., Closset, I., Colman, A., Conway, TM., Cossa, D., Croot, P., Cullen, JT., Cutter, GA., Daniels, C., Dehairs, F., Deng, FF., Dieu, HT., Duggan, B., Dulaquais, G., Dumousseaud, C., Echegoyen-Sanz, Y., Edwards, RL., Ellwood, M., Fahrbach, E., Fitzsimmons, JN., Flegal, AR., Fleisher, MQ., Van De Flierdt, T., Frank, M., Friedrich, J., Fripiat, F., Frollje, H., Galer, SJ., Gamo, T., Ganeshram, RS., Garcia-Orellana, J., Garcia-Solsona, E., Gault-Ringold, M., George, E., Gerringa, LJ., Gilbert, M., Godoy, JM., Goldstein, SL., Gonzalez, SR., Grissom, K., Hammerschmidt, C., Hartman, A., Hassler, CS., Hathorne, EC., Hatta, M., Hawco, N., Hayes, CT., Heimburger, LE., Helgoe, J., Heller, M., Henderson, GM., Henderson, PB., Van Heuven, S., Ho, P., Horner, TJ., Hsieh, YT., Huang, KF., Humphreys, MP., Isshiki, K., Jacquot, JE., Janssen, DJ., Jenkins, WJ., John, S., Jones, EM., Jones, JL., Kadko, DC., Kayser, R., Kenna, TC., Khondoker, R., Kim, T., Kipp, L., Klar, JK., Klunder, M., Kretschmer, S., Kumamoto, Y., Laan, P., Labatut, M., Lacan, F., Lam, PJ., Lambelet, M., Lamborg, CH., Le Moigne, FA., Le Roy, E., Lechtenfeld, OJ., Lee, JM., Lherminier, P., Little, S., Lopez-Lora, M., Lu, YB., Masque Barri, P., Mawji, E., McClain, CR., Measures, C., Mehic, S., Barraqueta, JL., Van Der Merwe, P., Middag, R., Mieruch, S., Milne, A., Minami, T., Moffett, JW., Moncoiffe, G., Moore, WS., Morris, PJ., Morton, PL., Nakaguchi, Y., Nakayama, N., Niedermiller, J., Nishioka, J., Nishiuchi, A., Noble, A., Obata, H., Ober, S., Ohnemus, DC., Van Ooijen, J., O'Sullivan, J., Owens, S., Pahnke, K., Paul, M., Pavia, F., Pena, LD., Petersh, B., Planchon, F., Planquette, H., Pradoux, C., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Quay, P., Queroue, F., Radic, A., Rauschenberg, S., Rehkamper, M., Rember, R., Remenyi, T., Resing, JA., Rickli, J., Rigaud, S., Rijkenberg, MJ., Rintoul, S., Robinson, LF., Roca-Marti, M., Rodellas, V., Roeske, T., Rolison, JM., Rosenberg, M., Roshan, S., Van Der Loaff, MM., Ryabenko, E., Saito, MA., Salt, LA., Sanial, V., Sarthou, G., Schallenberg, C., Schauer, U., Scher, H., Schlosser, C., Schnetger, B., Scott, P., Sedwick, PN., Semiletov, I., Shelley, R., Sherrell, RM., Shiller, AM., Sigman, DM., Singh, SK., Slagter, HA., Slater, E., Smethie, WM., Snaith, H., Sohrin, Y., Sohst, B., Sonke, JE., Speich, S., Steinfeldt, R., Stewart, G., Stichel, T., Stirling, CH., Stutsman, J., Swarr, GJ., Swift, JH., Thomas, A., Thorne, K., Till, CP., Till, R., Townsend, AT., Townsend, E., Tuerena, R., Twining, BS., Vance, D., Velazquez, S., Venchiarutti, C., Villa-Alfageme, M., Vivancos, SM., Voelker, AH., Wake, B., Warner, MJ., Watson, R., Van Weerlee, E., Weigand, MA., Weinstein, Y., Weiss, D., Wisotzki, A., Woodward, EM., Wu, JF., Wu, YZ., Wuttig, K., Wyatt, N., Xiang, Y., Xie, RF., Xue, ZC., Yoshikawa, H., Zhang, J., Zhang, P., Zhao, Y., Zheng, LJ., Zheng, XY., Zieringer, M., Zimmer, LA., Ziveri, P., Zunino, P., Zurbrick, C. (2018). The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017. Chemical Geology, 493(20 August 2018), 210-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.05.040.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Roca-Martí, M., Masque Barri, P., Benitez-Nelson, C., Rutgers Van Der Loeff, M., Bracher, A., Moreau, S. (2017). Latitudinal distributions of particulate carbon export across the North Western Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part 1: Oceanographic Research Papers, 129(2017), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.08.016.
  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Roca-Martí, M., Masque Barri, P., Benitez-Nelson, CR., Rutgers V. D. Loeff, M., Laglera, LM., Bracher, A., Cheah, W., Strass, VH., Hoppema, M., Santos-Echeandia, J., Hunt, BP., Pakhomov, EA., Klass, C. (2017). Particulate organic carbon export across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at 10°E: Differences between north and south of the Antarctic Polar Front. Deep-Sea Research Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 138(April 2017), 86-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.05.016.
  • Roca-Marti, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Iversen, M., Rutgers Van Der Loeff, M., Klaas, C., Cheah, W., Bracher, A., Masque Barri, P. (2017). High particulate organic carbon export during the decline of a vast diatom bloom in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 138(April 2017), 102-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.12.007.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Roca-Marti, M., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Rutgers Vad Der Loeff, MM., Katlein, C., Fernandez-Mendez, M., Peeken, I., Masque Barri, P. (2016). Carbon export fluxes and export efficiency in the central Arctic during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012: a joint 234Th/238U and 210Po/210Pb study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(7), 5030-5049. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011816.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Mawji, E., Schlitzer, R., Dodas, E., Abadie, C., Abouchami, W., Anderson, R., Baars, O., Bakker, K., Baskaran, M., Bates, N., Bluhm, K., Bowie, A., Bown, J., Boye, M., Boyle, E., Branellec, P., Bruland, K., Brzezinski, M., Bucciarelli, E., Buesseler, K., Butler, E., Cai, P., Cardinal, D., Casciotti, K., Chaves, J., Cheng, H., Chever, F., Church, T., Colman, T., Conway, T., Croot, P., Cutter, G., De Baar, H., De Souza, G., Dehairs, F., Deng, F., Dieu, H., Dulaquais, G., Echegoyen-Sanz, Y., Lawrence Edwards, R., Fahrbach, E., Fitzsimmons, J., Fleisher, M., Frank, M., Friedrich, J., Fripiat, F., Galer, S., Gamo, T., Solsona, E., Gerringa, L., Godoy, J., Gonzalez, S., Grossteffan, E., Hattaa, M., Hayes, C., Heller, M., Henderson, G., Huang, K., Jeandel, C., Jenkins, W., John, S., Kenna, T., Klunder, M., Kretschmer, S., Kumamoto, Y., Laan, P., Labatut, M., Lacan, F., Lam, P., Lannuzel, D., Le Moigne, F., Lechtenfeld, O., Lohan, M., Lua, Y., Masque Barri, P., McClain, C., Measures, C., Middag, R., Moffett, J., Navidad, A., Nishioka, J., Noble, A., Obata, H., Ohnemus, D., Owens, S., Planchon, F., Pradoux, C., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Quaya, P., Radic, A., Rehkämper, M., Remenyi, T., Rijkenberg, M., Rintoul, S., Robinson, L., Roeske, T., Rosenberg, M., Van Der Loeff, M., Ryabenko, E., Saito, M., Roshan, S., Salt, L., Sarthou, G., Schauer, U., Scott, P., Sedwick, P., Sha, L., Shiller, A., Sigman, D., Smethie, W., Smith, G., Sohrin, Y., Speich, S., Stichel, T., Stutsman, J., Swift, J., Tagliabue, A., Thomas, A., Tsunogai, U., Twining, B., Van Aken, H., Van Heuven, S., Van Ooijen, J., Van Weerlee, E., Venchiarutti, C., Voelker, A., Wake, B., Warner, M., Woodward, E., Wu, J., Wyatt, N., Yoshikawa, H., Zheng, X., Xue, Z., Zieringer, M., Zimmer, L. (2015). The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014. Marine Chemistry, 177(1), 8p. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2015.04.005.
  • Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Benitez-Nelson, C., Masque Barri, P., Verdeny, E., White, A., Popp, B., Prahl, F., Lam, P. (2015). Small phytoplankton drive high summertime carbon and nutrient export in the Gulf of California and Eastern Tropical North Pacific. Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change, 29(8), 1309-1332. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005134.

2014

Journal Articles

  • Dulaquais, G., Boye, M., Middag, R., Owens, S., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Buesseler, K., Masque Barri, P., De Baar, H., Carton, X. (2014). Contrasting biogeochemical cycles of cobalt in the surface western Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change, 28(12), 1387-1412. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GB004903.

2013

Journal Articles

  • Rigaud, S., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Camara-Mor, P., Casacuberta, N., Roca-Marti, M., Garcia-Orellana, J., Benitez-Nelson, C., Masque Barri, P., Church, T. (2013). A methods assessment and recommendations for improving calculations and reducing uncertainties in the determination of 210Po and 210Pb activities in seawater. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 11(OCT), 561-571. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2013.11.561.

2012

Journal Articles

  • Church, T., Rigaud, S., Baskaran, M., Kumar, A., Friedrich, J., Masque Barri, P., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., Kim, G., Radakovitch, O., Hong, G., Choi, H., Steward, G. (2012). Intercalibration studies of 210Po and 210Pb in dissolved and particulate seawater samples. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 10(OCTOBER), 776-789. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2012.10.776.

Research Projects

  • Determination of the concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in samples from gas and oil industry by gamma spectrometry, ALARA Health Physics Services, ALARA Health Physics Services Grant, 2019 ‑ 2020, $15,000.
  • Bacterial colonization of particles and its assemblage shifts throughout the water column in the Southern Ocean. Impact on carbon sequestration., Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2018, 2018 ‑ 2019, $29,800.
  • Visiting Fellow Dr Frederic Le Moigne, Edith Cowan University, Edith Cowan University, School of Science Visiting Fellow Grant Scheme, 2017 ‑ 2018, $4,050.
  • Linking the iron and the carbon cycles in the Southern Ocean. Enhancing the collaboration with IMAS and ICM, Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2017 Round 1, 2017 ‑ 2018, $8,730.
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