UPM HYDROBIOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
Emeritus Full Professor in the Departament of Natural Systems and Resources at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, touch on Zoology and Entomology and gave post-graduate courses on Fluvial Ecology, River Restoration and Freshwater Fisheries Management. He has expertise in the areas of running waters ecology, effects of dams, flow regulation and channelization, biological indicators of water integrity, fisheries management and river restoration techniques. His expertise include the use of stream habitat simulation models (CAUDAL, RHABSIM, RYHABSIM, RIVER-2D) in more than 35 spanish rivers. He has published more than 80 scientific articles and seven books dealing with these topics
Marta González del Tánago del Río. PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 1980)
Professor
in the Departament Natural Systems and Resources at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, teaching on Hydrology and Limnology
and gives post-graduate courses on Fluvial Ecology, River Restoration and Riparian
Management. She has expertise in the areas of running waters ecology, riparian
management, hydromorphic & biological
indicators of water integrity and river restoration techniques. His expertise
include the geomorphological and riparian analysis studies in more than
35 spanish rivers. He has published more than 70
scientific articles and six books dealing with these topics.
Joaquín Solana Gutiérrez, PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 1987)
Full Professor in the Departament of Forest Engeenering and Management at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he teachs on Biometrics and Applied Statistics and gives postgraduate courses on Remote Sensing and Statistical Ecology. He has expertise in the areas of statistical modelling, faune sampling and environmental data management and as well as remote sensing and spatial quantitave methods. He has published more than 70 international publication among congress communications and journals and six books dealing with statistics and quantitative methods for assessment in natural resources.
Fernando Torrent Bravo PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 1997)
Senior Assistant Professor, teaching on fishing and lancing in inland waters and collaborate for more than 25 years with inland and offshore aquiculture enterprises. From 2000, Dr.Torrent is the Director of the UPM Aquiculture Laboratory, previously in 1995 he was Director of the enterprise holding PRODEMAR, S.A. and Corporación interalimentaria S.A. both leaders on fishery markets in Spain and abroad. In addition he was CEO of his own enterprise Aguaviva Azul, S.L. From 1990 is CEO in CULMAREX S.A. (www.culmarex.es ) with an income of 34 Million € and sales for 5.000 T/año of marine aquiculture. Between 1993 and 2008, he belonged to the board of the Asociación Nacional de Productores de Acuicultura Marina (APROMAR www.apromar.es). From 2003 to 2008, he worked for the Comunidad Autonoma de Junta de Castilla León and Castilla La Mancha as engineer and auditor. He was the chief editor of "Libro Blanco de la acuicultura en España(2001)" and " "Libro Blanco de la Pesca(2007). In 2008, he was a foundational member of the "Plataforma tecnológica europea de acuicultura (EAITP www.eatpnet.eu)", leaded the “Integración con el medio ambiente" topic into the innovation sector agenda for the 2020 European horizon.
Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Natural Systems and Resources (UPM), he has expertise on hydrological studies as well as animal communities dynamic (faune sampling and fluvial communities analysis), inland waters management plans and fish harvesting plans.
Maria Dolores Bejarano Carrión, PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 2010)
Senior Assistant Professor at the Departament of Natural Systems and Resources (UPM), her expertise is in fluvial vegetation and hidropeaking effects. She is developping the UPM-Greenchannel for Hydropeaking simulator supported by a National Plan Research Project: Balancing Riparia and HydroELectric: from the River to the Lab (RIHEL). She is author of more than 40 JCR papers about ecohidraulics topics.
Maria Dolores Bejarano Carrión, PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 2018)
Junior Assistant Professor at the Departament of Natural Systems and Resources (UPM), her expertise is in fluvial ecology and geomorphology.
Currently she is working on automatic delineation and characterization of river segments based on LiDAR and hydrologic data series.
Javier Gortázar Rubial, PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 2015)
Since 2001
he has been working in several issues within Fluvial Ecology: hydrobiological studies, inland fisheries management,
design of ecological flow regimes, modelization and
simulation of physical habitat and ecology of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.). He is doing his PhD on the ecology
of brown trout in the southern limit of its natural distribution range. Now, he
is working in the spin-off company Ecohidráulica,
which is specialized in research on water management (www.ecohidraulica.com). He is
Director of the company’s Biological Environment Division.
Jose Maria Santiago Garcia, PhD in Forest Engineering (UPM, 2018)
Currenty he is working on the effects of climate change on fish population, which publications about the limits of trout in Iberia are a needed international reference. He has a texted experience in commercial aquiculture as well as in developing authoctone alevine fishes for natural restoration.
Gonzalo Rincón Sanz PhD in Environmental Sciences (UPM, 2018)
He has a scholar background of environmental techninian with a expertise in fluvial landscape and river conectivity issues. He has worked for "CIREF & Wetlands International" on dams and river barries inventory, published in Nature in decembre 2020 "More than one million barriers fragment Europe’s rivers".