
We congratulate Ricarda Blum, former doctoral fellow at the Playa Unión Photobiology Station, who defended her Doctoral Thesis on June 12 as part of the Doctoral Program at the National University of Córdoba.

The thesis, entitled “Crustaceans from Patagonian intertidal zones in a context of global change: direct and indirect effects on the amphipod Ampithoe valida,” was supervised by Drs. Macarena S. Valiñas and E. Walter Helbling (EFPU). This thesis was carried out within the framework of a doctoral fellowship awarded to Ricarda by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).