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Joan Llort

How will current and near-future global trends in wildfire activity alter marine life and its capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon?

“I want to express my gratitude to the LFP programme and my managers in particular. The kind support I have received during these 24 months has been fundamental to the success of PYROPLANKTON in a particularly complex period at home regarding the work-family balance. I also strongly appreciate the programme’s genuine interest in supporting fundamental research, focusing on fully understanding the mechanisms addressed (with, for instance, providing additional resources to run a complex and costly in-situ experiment as we did) and promoting fellows networking and leadership opportunities.”

 

After the end of the Living Planet Fellowship, Joan was a tenure track researcher on aerosol-ocean interactions.

 

Project

  • Impacts of PYROgenic aerosols on PLANKTON ecosystems (PYROPLANKTON)

    Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Joan Llort. In recent years, exceptionally large wildfires have been recorded in Australia, California, the Mediterranean region, and the Arctic. While there exists an established research effort on how Climate Change is leading these megafires and on how they are affecting land ecosystems, recent observations show that …

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  • Dust sparked biggest phytoplankton bloom in decades
    October 2, 2024

    A new paper has been recently published on PNAS Nexus as a result of the work of two Living Planet Fellows, John Gittings with his POSEIDON project and Joan Llort with the PYROPLANKTON activity. The research explores the linkages between global warming, desertification, dust emissions and ocean fertilisation. In particular, the study shows that dust …

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