Mireia Bartrons
Post Doctoral Researcher
Contact:
Mireia Bartrons
UW - Madison
Center for Limnology
680 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
Email: bartrons@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)262-3088
Fax: (608)265-2340
Office: 224
Other website: None
Education
Ph.D. 2009. Center for Advance Studies of Blanes - Spanish Council for Scientific Research. Dept. of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Thesis: Food web bioaccumulation of halogenated compounds in high mountain lake food webs. Supervisors: Jordi Catalan and Joan O. Grimalt.
M.Sc. 2006. Center for Advance Studies of Blanes - Spanish Council for Scientific Research. Dept. of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Diploma for Advanced Studies in Fundamental and Applied Ecology. Supervisors: Jordi Catalan and Joan O. Grimalt.
B.Sc. 2004. Biology Program. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests
I'm interested on the study of freshwater food webs, specifically in the use of organic pollutants as ecological tracers to characterize some food web processes including inter-species exchange, bioaccumulation, biomagnification and metabolic transformation.
Much of my recent research has focused on the role of the food web in how organohalogen pollutants accumulate in high mountain lake fish, and the influence of temperature in the process.
I am currently involved in the study of aquatic-to-terrestrial linkages driven by the export of emergent aquatic insects. We are using methylmercury (Me-Hg) and stable isotope ratios (d13C, d15N and dD) as tracers of aquatic production in the terrestrial environment.
Publications
Bartrons, M., J. Catalan J., and J. O. Grimalt. 2011. Altitudinal distributions of BDE-209 and other polybromodiphenyl ethers in high mountain lakes. Environmental Pollution. 159(7):1816-1822
Bartrons, M., L. Camarero, and J. Catalan. 2010. Isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in high mountain lakes: variability along an altitudinal gradient in the Pyrenees. Biogeosciences 7:1469-1479
Jarque, S., E. Gallego, M. Bartrons, J. Catalan, J. O. Grimalt and B. Piña. 2010. Altitudinal and thermal gradients of hepatic Cyp1A gene expression in natural populations of Salmo trutta from high mountain lakes and their correlation with organohalogen loads. Environmental Pollution 158:1392-1398
Bartrons, M. 2009. Estanys d'alta muntanya - testimonis dels canvis ambientals. Omnis Cellula 20: 34-39. ISSN: 1696-8107
Bartrons, M., J. O. Grimalt, and J. Catalan. 2007. Concentration Changes of Organochlorine Compounds and Polybromodiphenyl Ethers during Metamorphosis of Aquatic Insects. Environmental Science and Technology 41: 6137-6141
Gallego, E., J. O. Grimalt, M. Bartrons, J. F. Lopez, L. Camarero, J. Catalan, E. Stuchlik, and R. W. Battarbee. 2007. Altitudinal gradients of PBDEs and PCBs in fish from European high mountain lakes. Environmental Science and Technology 41: 2196-2202
Catalan J., Camarero Ll., Felip M., Pla S., Ventura M., Buchaca T., Bartumeus F., de Mendoza G., Miró A., Casamayor E.O., Medina-Sánchez J.M., Bacardit M., Altuna M., Bartrons M., and Díaz de Quijano D. 2005. High mountain lakes: extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes. Limnetica 25: 551-584
Bartrons M., Ortega E., Obach M., Calvo M.N., Navarro-Sabaté A., and Bartrons R. 2004. Actication of AMP-dependent protein kinase by hypoxia and hypothermia in the liver of frog Rana Perezi. Cryobiology 49: 190-194
Personal
Mountains are my passion. I love spending as much time as possible there with the company of my friends and doing any kind of activity such as trekking, backcountry skiing, sampling the lakes, discussing any topic, biking or just playing and enjoying nature.