Carina Beatriz Lange

Carina Beatriz Lange

Interacciones del Agua Dulce y Océano en Patagonia

La Dra. Carina Lange es investigadora de la línea 2  y profesora titular del Departamento de Oceanografía de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas de la Universidad de Concepción. Fue directora del Centro COPAS entre 2004 y 2011 y subdirectora en el periodo de 2013 a 2015.

Correo: clange@udec.cl

Teléfono: 56 (41) – 2207252

Área de especialización

Oceanografía, paleoceanografía y diatomeas marinas.

Líneas de investigación

Reconstrucción de la productividad marina en relación a los cambios climáticos y oceanográficos del pasado, en escalas de tiempo que van desde el presente a cientos de miles de años atrás, utilizando a los microorganismos y las propiedades de la materia orgánica preservadas en los sedimentos marinos como archivos geológicos. Realizo trabajos en laboratorio y terreno, participando en diversas expediciones oceanográficas.

Antecedentes académicos

1989 Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas mención Oceanografía. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1980 Licenciatura en Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Miembro de comités y consejos/otras afiliaciones

2015 – presente Investigador asociado Centro de Investigación Dinámica de Ecosistemas marinos de Altas Latitudes, IDEAL.
2014 – presente Fundadora y coordinadora de Grupo de Estudio Atmosphere-ocean changes in the southeast Pacific-from glacial/interglacial to instrumental time-scales (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. Alemania
2013 – presente Investigador Asociado Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA.
2010 – presente Representante de Chile ante el Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO).
2012 – 2015 Miembro Comité Editorial Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences.
2012 – 2013 Miembro Comité Expertos «Expert committee for the structural analysis of marine research in Northern Germany, Die Senatorin fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft und Gesundheit», Hamburgo, Alemania.
2006 – presente Miembro Comité y representante Chileno de Capacity Building Task Team del Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) .
90′ – presente Evaluador proyectos National Science Foundation (NSF).

 

 

Number of publications: 50

Publicaciones

Name Autores Palabras clave Año
Glacial isostatic adjustment near the center of the former Patagonian Ice Sheet (48ºS) during the last 16.5 kyr Matthias Troch, Sebastien Bertrand, Carina B. Lange, Paola C_ardenas, Helge Arz, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Rolf Kilian Patagonia, Isolation basin, Sea level, Salinity indicators, Late glacial, Holocene 2022
Isotopic Characterization of Water Masses in the Southeast Pacific Region: Paleoceanographic Implications Dharma Reyes-Macaya, Babette Hoogakker, Gema Martínez-Méndez, Pedro J. Llanillo, Patricia Grasse, Mahyar Mohtadi, Alan Mix, Melanie J. Leng, Ulrich Struck, Daniel C. McCorkle, Macarena Troncoso, Eugenia M. Gayo, Carina B. Lange, Laura Farías, Wilson Carhuapoma, Michelle Graco, Marcela Cornejo-D’Ottone, Ricardo De Pol Holz, Camila Fernández, Diego Narvaez, Cristian A. Vargas, Francisco García-Araya, Dierk Hebbeln Stable isotopes, Subantarctic Surface Water, Subtropical Water, Equatorial Subsurface water, Antarctic Intermediate Water, Pacific Deep Water 2022
Glacial isostatic adjustment near the center of the former Patagonian Ice Sheet (48°S) during the last 16.5 kyr Matthias Troch, Sebastien Bertrand, Carina B. Lange, Paola Cárdenas, Helge Arz, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Rolf Kiliangh Late Glacial, early Holocene, uplift 2022
Sediment provenance in the Baker-Martínez fjord system (Chile, 48°S) indicated by magnetic susceptibility and inorganic geochemistry. Matthias Troch, Sebastien Bertrand, Benjamin Amann, Dawei Liu, Juan A. Placencia and Carina B. Lange Grain size, River suspended sediment, Patagonia, fjord sediment, Northern Patagonian Icefield, Southern Patagonian Icefield 2021
Sea ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, during the past 240 years: a multi-proxy intercomparison study. Maria-Elena Vorrath, Juliane Müller, Lorena Rebolledo, Paola Cárdenas, Xiaoxu Shi, Oliver Esper, Thomas Opel, Walter Geibert, Práxedes Muñoz, Christian Haas, Gerhard Kuhn, Carina B. Lange, Gerrit Lohmann, and Gesine Mollenhauer N/A 2020
Environmental and coastline changes controlling Holocene carbon accumulation rates in fjords of the western Strait of Magellan region. Ríos Francisco, Kilian Rolf, Lange Carina B., Baeza-Urrea Oscar, Arz Helge W., Zindorf Mark, De Pol-Holz Ricardo, Lamy Frank Patagonian fjord sediments, Paleoproductivity, Carbon accumulation, Biogenic carbonate, Marine transgression, Holocene 2020
Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dynamics at the Pacific Entrance to the Drake Passage Over the Past 1.3 Million Years. María H. Toyos, Frank Lamy, Carina B. Lange, Lester Lembke‐Jene, Mariem Saavedra‐Pellitero, Oliver Esper, Helge W. Arz Pasaje Drake, Corriente Circumpolar Antártica, Variaciones orbitales 2020
Extreme ENSO-driven torrential rainfalls at the southern edge of the Atacama Desert during the Late Holocene and their projection into the 21th century. Ortega C., Vargas G., Rojas M., Rutllant J.A., Muñoz P., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Dezileau L., Ortlieb L. Extreme rainfall events, Southern edge of Atacama Desert, El Niño Southern Oscillation, Pacific South America teleconnection pattern, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, CMIP5 2019
Compositional and biogeochemical variations of sediments across the terrestrial-marine continuum of the Baker-Martínez fjord system (Chile, 48°S). Rebolledo L., Bertrand S., Lange C.B., Tapia F.J., Quiroga E., Troch M., Silva N., Cárdenas P., Pantoja S. Chilean fjords, Sediment composition, Organic geochemistry, Carbon stable isotopes, n-alkanes, Diatoms 2018
Biogeochemical proxies and diatoms in surface sediments across the Drake Passage reflect oceanic domains and frontal systems in the region. Cárdenas P., Lange C.B., Vernet M., Esper O., Srain B., Vorrath M.E., Ehrhardt S., Müller J., Kuhn G., Arz H.W., Lembke-Jene L., Lamy F. Drake Passage, Surface sediments, Organic carbon, Photosynthetic pigments, Sterols, Diatoms 2018
Influence of summer conditions on surface water properties and phytoplankton productivity in embayments of the South Shetland Islands. Aracena C, González H.E., Garcés-Vargas J., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Muñoz F., Teca E., Tejos E. South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Chlorophyll-a, Net primary production, Biogenic silica, Nutrients, Phytoplankton 2018
Postglacial fluctuations of Cordillera Darwin glaciers (southernmost Patagonia) reconstructed from Almirantazgo fjord sediments. Bertrand S., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Hughen K., Van Tornhout E., Smith Wellner J. Fjord sediments, Ice-rafted debris, Meltwater, Neoglaciation, Holocene 2017
Diatom resting stages in surface sediments: a pilot study comparing next generation sequencing and serial dilution cultures. Piredda R., Sarno D., Lange C.B., Tomasino M.P., Zingone A., Montresor M. Diatoms, HTS, metabarcoding, V4, 18S rDNA, resting stages, SDC, sediments, LTER-MC, Gulf of Naples 2017
Bacteriohopanepolyols along redox gradients in the Humboldt Current System off northern Chile. Matys E., Sepúlveda J., Pantoja S., Lange C.B., Caniupán M., Lamy F., Summons R. Chile, Anammox, Bacteriohopanepolyol, Bacteriohopanetetrol isomer, Oxygen minimum zone 2017
Diversity in the globally distributed diatom genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae): three new species from warm-temperate waters. Li Y., Boonprakob A., Gaonkar C.C., Kooistra W.H.C.F., Lange C.B., Hernández-Becerril D., Chen, Z., Moestrup Ø., Lundholm N. N/A 2017
Two new species in the Chaetoceros socialis complex (Bacillariophyta): C. sporotruncatus and C. dichatoensis, and characterization of its relatives, C. radicans and C. cinctus. Gaonkar C.C., Kooistra W.H.C.F., Lange C.B., Montresor M., Sarno D. Chaetoceros, Chaetoceros dichatoensi ssp. nov., Chaetoceros sporotruncatus sp. nov., diatoms, phylogeny, spores, taxonomy 2017
Varves in marine sediments: A review. Schimmelmann A., Lange C.B., Schieber J., Francus P., Ojala A.E.K., Zolitschka B. Annual lamination, Chronology, Eutrophication, Oxygen minimum zone, Paleoceanography, Varve 2016
Interdecadal changes in intensity of the oxygen minimum zone off Concepción, Chile (~36°S), over the last century. Srain B., Pantoja S., Sepúlveda J., Lange C.B., Muñoz P., Summons R.E., McKay J., Salamanca M. N/A 2015
Late Holocene precipitation variability recorded in the sediments of Reloncaví Fjord (41°S, 72°W), Chile. Rebolledo L., Lange C.B., Bertrand S., Muñoz P., Salamanca M., Lazo P., Iriarte J.L., Vargas G., Pantoja S., Dezileau, L. Reloncaví Fjord, Patagonia, Geochemistry, Diatoms, Organic carbon, Stable isotopes 2015
Glacial reduction and millennial-scale variations in Drake Passage throughflow. Lamy F., Arzb H.W., Kilianc R., Lange C.B., Lembke-Jene L., Wenglera M., Kaiserb J., Baeza-Urrea O., Hall I.R., Harada N., Tiedemann R. Paleoceanography, Drake Passage, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Glacial–interglacial changes, Sedimentology 2015
Holocene variations in productivity associated with changes in glacier activity and freshwater flux in the central basin of the Strait of Magellan. Aracena C., Kilianc R., Lange C.B., Bertrand S., Lamy F., Arz H.W., De Pol-Holz R., Baeza O., Pantoja S., Kissel C. Strait of Magellan, Holocene, Paleoproductivity, Thermohaline conditions 2015
Cocolitóforos en sedimentos marinos frente a la entrada occidental del Estrecho de Magallanes (53°S) revelan cambios en productividad durante los últimos 30.000 años. Sánchez G., Lange C., Flóres J., Caniupán A., Lamy F. Coccolithophores, Last Glacial Maximum, Holocene, Southern Chile. 2014
Holocene sea-surface temperature variability in the Chilean fjord region. Caniupán M., Lamy F., Lange C.B., Kaiser J., Kilian R., Arz H.W., León T., Mollenhauer G., Sandoval S., De Pol-Holz R., Pantoja S., Wellner J., Tiedemann R. Holocene, Alkenones, Sea-surface temperature, Fjords, Chile 2014
Revised ~2.000-year chronostratigraphy of partially varved marine sediment in Santa Barbara Basin, California. Schimmelmann A., Hendy I.L., Dunn L., Pak D.K., Lange C.B. Varve, Santa Barbara Basin, California, Laminated sediment, Radiocarbon, Chronostratigraphy 2013
Developing human capital for successful implementation of international marine scientific research projects. Morrison R.J., Zhang J., Urban Jr. E.R., Hall J., Ittekkot V., Avril B., Hu L., Hong G.H., Kidwai S., Lange C.B., Lobanov V., Machiwa J., San Diego-McGlone M.L., Oguz T., Plumley F.G., Yeemin T., Zhu W., Zuo F. N/A 2013
Deglacial–Holocene environmental changes at the Pacific entrance of the Strait of Magellan. Harada N., Ninnemann U., Lange C.B., Marchant M.E., Sato M., Ahagon N., Pantoja S. Biogenic components, δ13C, δ15N, Planktic foraminifera, Alkenone, Sea surface temperature, Southern Patagonia 2013
230Th-normalized fluxes of biogenic components from the central and southernmost Chilean margin over the past 22,000 years. Fukuda M., Harada N., Sato M., Lange C.B., Ahagon N., Kawakami H., Miyashita W., Pantoja S., Matsumoto T., Motoyama I. Biological pump, Paleoproductivity, Thorium 230 (230Th), Southern westerlies, Chile 2013
Long-Term Ocean Observations off Central-Southern Chile. POGO, Observing the Oceans for Science and Society – Climate, Ecosystems. Lange C.B. & Escribano R. N/A 2012
International Colloquium Climate Change in Magellan and Antarctic regions: Evidence and challenges for the future session 3. Research highlights from the Chilean fjords: Water column and sediments. Lange C.B. N/A 2012
Siliceous microorganisms in the upwelling center off Concepción, Chile (36°S): preservation in surface sediments and downcore fluctuations during the past ~150 years. Sánchez G.E., Lange C.B., González H.E., Vargas G., Muñoz P., Cisternas C., Pantoja S. N/A 2012
Evaluation of sediment trace metal records as paleoproductivity and paleoxygenation proxies in the upwelling center off Concepción, Chile (36° S). Muñoz P., Dezileau L., Lange C.B., Cárdenas L., Sellanes J., Salamanca M.A., Maldonado A. N/A 2012
Geochemistry of trace metals in shelf sediments affected by seasonal and permanent low oxygen conditions off central Chile, SE Pacific (~ 36°S). Muñoz P., Dezileau L., Cárdenas L., Sellanes J., Lange C.B., Inostroza J., Muratli J., Salamanca M.A. Trace metals, Sediments, Oxygen minimum zone, Organic carbon, SE Pacific, Concepción shelf 2012
Biogeochemical significance of fatty acid distribution in the coastal upwelling ecosystem off Concepción (36°S), Chile. Gutiérrez M.H., Pantoja S., Lange C.B. N/A 2012
Precipitation as the main driver of Neoglacial fluctuations of Gualas glacier, Northern Patagonian Icefield. Bertrand S., Hughen K.A., Lamy F., Stuut J.-B.W., Torrejón F., Lange C.B. N/A 2012
First record of Lingulodinium polyedrum (Dinophyceae) resting cysts in coastal sediments from the Inner Sea of Chiloé, Los Lagos Region, southern Chile (~41°-43°S). Salgado P., Troncoso V.A., Montresor M., Salamanca M., Lange C.B. N/A 2011
Siliceous productivity changes in Gulf of Ancud sediments (42°S, 72°W), southern Chile, over the last ~150 years. Rebolledo L., González H.E., Muñoz P., Iriarte J.L., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Salamanca M. Productivity, Siliceous microfossil, Geochemical proxies, Sediments, Gulf of Ancud, Chile 2011
Oxygenation variability in Mejillones Bay, off northern Chile, during the last two centuries. Díaz-Ochoa J.A., Pantoja S., De Lange G.J., Lange C.B., Sánchez G.E., Acuña V.R., Muñoz P., Vargas G. N/A 2011
Millennial-scale sea surface temperature and Patagonian Ice Sheet changes off southernmost Chile (53°S) over the past ~60 kyr. Caniupán A.M., Lamy F., Lange C.B., Kaiser J., Arz H.W., Kilian, R., Baeza Urrea O., Aracena C., Hebbeln D., Kissel C., Laj C., Mollenhauer G.,Tiedemann R. Patagonian Ice Sheet, Alkenones, Ice rafted debris, Millennial‐scale changes, Southeast Pacific 2011
Latitudinal patterns of export production recorded in surface sediments of the Chilean Patagonian fjords (41-55°S) as a response to water column productivity. Aracena C., Lange C.B., Iriarte J.L., Rebolledo L., Pantoja S. Biogenic opal, Organic carbon, Stable carbon isotopes, Primary production, Fjords, Patagonia 2011
A rainy northern Atacama Desert during the last interglacial. Contreras S., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Lavik G., Rincón-Martínez D., Kuypers M.M.M. Atacama Desert, Peru, Last interglacial, El Niño-like responses, Molecular fossils 2010
Late Holocene sea-surface temperature and precipitation variability in northern Patagonia, Chile (Jacaf Fjord, 44°S). Sepúlveda J., Pantoja S., Hughen K.A., Bertrand S., Figueroa D., León T., Drenzek N.J., Lange C. Holocene, Westerly Winds, Chile, Northern Patagonia, Jacaf Fjord, Precipitation, Sea-surface temperature, Lipid biomarkers 2009
The Humboldt Current System: Ecosystem components and processes, fisheries, and sediment studies. Montecino V., Lange C.B. N/A 2009
Vertical and horizontal extension of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific Ocean. Fuenzalida R., Schneider W., Garcés-Vargas J., Bravo L., Lange C.B. Oxygen minimum zone, Dissolved oxygen, Coastal upwelling, Eastern South Pacific, Peru, Chile 2009
Fish scales in sediments from off Callao, central Peru. Díaz-Ochoa J.A., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., De Lange G.J., Gutiérrez D., Muñoz P., Salamanca M. Oxygen minimum zone, Redox-sensitive trace elements, Molybdenum, Peru, Callao, Clupeoid fish 2009
Sedimentos laminados de la Bahía Mejillones como registro de cambios temporales en la productividad fitoplanctónica de los últimos ~200 años. Caniupán M., Villaseñor T., Pantoja S., Lange C.B., Vargas G., Muñoz P., Salamanca M. Sedimentos laminados, Carbono orgánico, “chlorins”, Alquenonas, Ópalo biogénico. 2009
Living (stained) calcareous benthic foraminifera from recent sediments off Concepción, central-southern Chile (~36°S). Tapia R., Lange C.B., Marchant M. Benthic foraminifera, Sediments, Oxygen minimum zone, Concepción, Chile. 2008
Seasonal changes in particulate biogenic and lithogenic silica in the upwelling system off Concepción (36°S), Chile, and their relationship to fluctuations in marine productivity and continental input. Sánchez G.E., Pantoja S., Lange C.B., González H.E., Daneri G. Biogenic silica, Lithogenic silica, Diatoms, Humboldt Current System, Concepción, Chile 2008
Late Holocene marine productivity changes in Northern Patagonia-Chile inferred from a multi-proxy analysis of Jacaf channel sediments. Rebolledo L., Sepúlveda J., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Bertrand S., Hughen K., Figueroa D. Biogenic opal, Organic carbon, Geochemistry, Siliceous microorganisms, Holocene, Chilean Fjords 2008
Deglacial pattern of circulation and marine productivity in the upwelling region off central-south Chile. Mohtadi M., Rossel P., Lange C.B., Pantoja S., Bóning P., Repeta D., Grunwald M., Lamy F., Hebbeln D., Brumsack H.J. Sea surface temperatures, Paleoproductivity, Deglacial, Upwelling, Chile 2008
Preservación y abundancia de escamas de peces en sedimentos del margen continental de Chile (21-36°S). Díaz-Ochoa J.A., Lange C.B., De Lange G.J. Escamas de peces, Sistema corriente de Humboldt, Sedimentos, Elementos redox-sensibles, Molibdeno. 2008