Join us for this Marine Biology Live Session where you will get the opportunity to hear from the director of the Puerto Quequén Hydrobiological Station in Argentina, Dr Gustavo Chiaramonte on his work with sharks in Argentina.  He has been involved in the work of the World Association of Marine Stations for many years.

There will be a presentation followed by the opportunity to ask questions. 

Dr Gustavo E. Chiaramonte earned his PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. Gustavo began working with the gillnet fishery directed on the "Cazón” or Tope Shark (Galeorhinus galeus) and its biology in the south of the province of Buenos Aires in the early 1990s. This led to his interest in the reproductive biology of elasmobranchs, including the Narrownose Smoothhound (Mustelus schmitti), Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias), and several species of skates. His interest in smoothhounds, dogfishes, and skates drove him to study fisheries which targeted and/or discarded those species. This resulted in developing the first local study on the evaluation of the post fishing survival, and calculation of the resistance index and recovery rate in Argentina. Currently, he is focused on the study of the “borderline” between lecithotrophy and matrotrophy in sharks, with the smoothhound as the model species. 

Gustavo joined the SSG in 1996 and was a member of the FAO Technical Working Group in1998 that outlined the IPOA-Sharks. He was also a member of the PAN-Tiburones (NPOA-Sharks of Argentina) and was a consultant member of the CITES authority of Argentina. At present, Gustavo is a member of the Scientific Researcher Career of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina, Head of the Ichthyology Division of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences “B. Rivadavia”, Curator of the National Collection of Ichthyology, and Director of the Puerto Quequén Hydrobiological Station.

Dr Gustavo Chiaramonte

Director: Estación Hidrobiológica de Puerto Quequén

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