Dr. Paula Gabriela Echeverría Galindo

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E-mail: p.echeverria-galindo(at)tu-braunschweig.de
Phone: +49 531 391 7274
Room: 207

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Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication
Langer Kamp 19c
38106 Braunschweig

07.2021	Dr. rer. nat. within the Sino-German Research Training Group at Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Topic: Aquatic Bioindicators of Late Holocene Environmental Change on the South-Central Tibetan Plateau. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Antje Schwalb, Prof. Dr. Peter Frenzel, Prof. Dr. Liping Zhu.
03.2018	PhD. in the Sino-German Training Group at Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany. Topic: Late Holocene hydrology inferred by multiple aquatic bioindicators in Lake Nam Co, Tibet. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Antje Schwalb.
12.2017	Master in Limnology and Marine Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. Thesis title: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of two northern karst lakes of the Neotropics based on multiple paleobioindicators. Advisor: Dr. rer. nat. Liseth Pérez.
01.2016	Bachelor in Biology at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City. Thesis title: Ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in karst lakes (Montebello, Selva Lacandona and Petén) in the north of the Neotropics in relation to an altitudinal gradient: diversity, distribution and ecology. Advisor: Dr. rer. nat. Liseth Pérez and PhD. Carlos Avendaño.

2021	European Geosciences Union -vEGU- from 19-30 April. Ecological impacts caused by alternating wet/dry episodes during the last 2,000 years in southern Tibetan Plateau: a paleoecological record from lake Nam Co. Talk presentation.
2020	Virtual Past Socio-Environmental vPASES meeting. Attendance and workshop participation.
2020	Converciencia, Innovación y Desarrollo para Guatemala. Digital Resources in Science and Investigation. Attendance (in Spanish).
2020	Virtual forum “Indicators in Paleoecology: knowing the past to understand the future of Guatemala”. Talk presentation (in Spanish).
2020	14th International Young Geomorphologists Meeting. Digital Edition. Attendance, October 29th to 30th.
2019	20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research -INQUA- Dublin, Ireland. Extant Ostracoda and their importance in Quaternary hydrological changes in Lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau, China. Poster presentation.
2018	IPA-IAL Stockholm, Sweden. A 3800-year paleoenvironmental record from the Lacandon region of Mexico, inferred from testate amoebae and element concentrations in a sediment core from a mid-elevation solution lake. Poster presentation.
2016	Annual Meeting of the Mexican Geophysical Union -RUGM- Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction in karst lake Petén Itzá inferred from multiple aquatic bioindicators. Oral presentation.
2016	International Society of Limnology -SIL- Turin, Italy. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from a karst lake in the northern Neotropics inferred from multiple aquatic bioindicators. Poster presentation.

08.2021 – 04.2022	Start-up funding grant by the International Research Training Group TransTiP to start after opening the PhD examination and submission of the doctoral thesis.
2019	Grant from DEUQUA to attend INQUA meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
2018	Travel grant from the IPA-IAL committee to attend IPA-IAL meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
2016	CONACYT Scholarship for Master studies at UNAM, Mexico.
2016	Travel and settlement (accommodation) grant from Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Lateinamerika. Scholarship program Sur Place for students from Central America and Caribbean.

2021	Paula Echeverría-Galindo, Itzel Sigala, Timothy Patterson, Nawaf Nasser, Mark Brenner, Fernanda Charqueño-Celis, Alex Correa-Metrio, Liseth Pérez. Testate lobose amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinidae) in Lake Amarillo, Lacandon Forest, southern Mexico: A 3800-year paleoenvironmental record. In preparation.
2021	Echeverría-Galindo P., Rigterink S., Pérez L., Massaferro J., Kang W., Börner N., Schwarz A., Peng P., Wang J., Zhu L., Schwalb A. Chironomid assemblage (Insecta: Chironomidae) response to hydrological changes over the last two centuries in Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Quaternary Science, submitted.
2021	Echeverría-Galindo P., Sten Anslan, Peter Frenzel, Wengang Kang, Nicole Börner, Anja Schwarz, Sven Künzel, Miguel Vences, Liseth Pérez, Junbo Wang, Ping Peng, Wang J., Liping Zhu, Antje Schwalb. High-throughput identification of non-marine ostracodes the Tibetan Plateau: Evaluating the success of various primers on sedimentary DNA samples. Environmental DNA, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/edn3.222
2021	Pérez, L., Correa-Metrio, A., Cohuo, S., González, L. M., Echeverría-Galindo, P., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Kutterolf, S., Stockhecke, M., Schnek, F., Bauersachs, T., Schwalb, A. (2021). Ecological turnover in neotropical freshwater and terrestrial communities during episodes of abrupt climate change. Quaternary Research, 1–11. http://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.124
2021	Martínez-Abarca Rodrigo, Bücker Matthias, Hoppenbrock Johannes, Flores Orozco Adrian, Pita de la Paz Carlos, Fröhlich Karoline, Buckel Johannes, Lauke Theresia, Moguel Bárbara, Bonilla Mauricio, Rubio-Sandoval Karla, Echeverría-Galindo Paula, Landois Santiago, García Miguel, Caballero Margarita, Rodríguez Sergio, Morales Wendy, Escolero Oscar, Correa-Metrio Alexander, Schwalb Antje, Pérez Liseth. Evidence of recurrent shoreline regression-transgression events found in deltaic sediments of Lake Tzibaná, Chiapas, Mexico. Sedimentology, submitted.
2021	Obrist-Farner, J., Brenner, M., Stone, R., Wokewódka, M., Eckert, A., Locmelis, M., Curtis, J., Zimmerman, S., Correa-Metrio, A., Duarte, E., Schwalb, A., and Niewerth, E., Echeverría Galindo, P., Pérez, L. Coastal freshwater ecosystem collapse as a consequence of early Holocene sea level rise. Geology, resubmitted - under review
2021	Wengang Kang, Sten Anslan, Nicole Börner, Anja Schwarz, Robin Schmidt, Sven Künzel, Patrick Rioual, Paula Echeverría-Galindo, Miguel Vences, Junbo Wang, Antje Schwalb. Sample-size and bioinformatics independent, consistent patterns among diatom metabarcoding data from lake sediments. Ecological indicators, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107070
2020	Cohuo, S., Macario-Gonzalez, L., Wagner, S., Naumann, K., Echeverria, P., Pérez, L., Curtis, J., Brenner, M., and Schwalb, A. Influence of late Quaternary climate on the biogeography of Neotropical aquatic species as reflected by non-marine ostracodes. Biogeosciences Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2019-235
2020	Anslan, S., Azizi Rad, M., Buckel, J., Echeverria Galindo, P., Kai, J., Kang, W., Keys, L., Maurischat, P., Nieberding, F., Reinosch, E., Tang, H., Tran, T. V., Wang, Y., and Schwalb, A.: Reviews and syntheses: How do abiotic and biotic processes respond to climaticvariations at the Nam Co catchment (Tibetan Plateau)? Biogeosciences Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2019-50 Minor Revision
2019	Echeverría-Galindo P., Pérez L., Correa-Metrio A., Avendaño C., Moguel B., Brenner M., Cohuo S., Macario L., Caballero M., Schwalb A. Tropical freshwater ostracodes as environmental indicators across an altitude gradient in Guatemala and Mexico. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Rev.Biol.Trop. https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v67i4.33278
2019	Charqueño-Celis, N., Garibay, M., Sigala, I., Brenner, M., Echeverria-Galindo, P., Lozano, S., Massaferro, J., Pérez, L. Testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinidae) as indicators of dissolved oxygen concentration and water depth in lakes of the Lacandón Forest, southern México. Journal of Limnology, https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1936
2017	Díaz A., Pérez L., Correa-Metrio A., Franco-Gaviria J., Echeverría P., Curtis J., Brenner M. Holocene environmental history of tropical, mid-altitude. Lake Ocotalito, Mexico, inferred from ostracodes and non-biological indicators. The Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616687384

2019	Three months research stay in China as part of the Sino-German Project “Geo-ecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau (TransTiP)” at the Institute of the Tibetan Plateau (ITP), Beijing, China (June-August). Professor: Liping Zhu.
2018	Three months research stay in China as part of the Sino-German Project “Geo-ecosystems in Transition on the Tibetan Plateau (TransTiP)” at the Institute of the Tibetan Plateau (ITP), Beijing, China (September-November). Professor: Liping Zhu.
2017	Two months research stay at the Earth Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. “(Paleo) ecology of testate amoebae”. Professor: Timothy Paterson.
2016	One-month internship at Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany. Professor: Antje Schwalb.
2013	One-month internship at Laboratory of Ecology on Foraminifera and Micropaleontology, Institute of Limnology and Marine Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). “Microfossils techniques for the palaeoceanographic studies”. Professor: María Luisa Machaín.

2020	How to prepare a proposal for a review article. November 30. ELSEVIER Researcher Academy.
2019	European School on Ostracoda -ESO-, March 25-29 at University Jena, Institute of Earth Sciences, Friedrich-Shiller, Germany. Topics (lectures and practical exercises): Taxonomy, (Palaeo)ecology, Biodiversity, Geological history and applied biostratigraphy of ostracods.
2019	GESEP School on Lake Sediment Drilling, Core Processing and Geochronology. IODP/ICDP Colloquium. March 20-21 at University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Germany. Topics (lectures and practical exercises): Lake sediment drilling, Wireline coring techniques, Core processing and correlation, Chronology techniques, Age model development.
2018	ICDP Training Course on Continental Scientific Drilling. November 19-23 at the KTB Geozentrum Germany. Topics (lectures and practical exercises): Drilling engineering, On- site sample handling, storage, and analysis, Downhole logging, Borehole testing, Data management, project planning and management

Since 2018	Student assistants: Janine Melzig, Jannis Bosse, Etienne Niewerth, Lea Klute, Leonhard Nebig, Johanna Schiffmann
2018-2020	Sonja Rigterink. Master thesis: Subfossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as paleoenvironmental indicator in two lakes (Nam Co and Shen Co) of the Tibetan Plateau.

2018-2020	Practical sessions in the courses taught at the Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation (IGeo) regarding aquatic bioindicators. “Methoden der Sedimentanalyse, Modul: Aquatische Okosystemanalyse I: Langzeitmonitoring”.
2017	Participation in the short course "Freshwater and marine bioindicators applied to current and past environments". University Del Valle Guatemala.
2017	Assistant in the "Short course Neotropical lacustrine (paleo) bioindicators", UNAM.
2014 - 2016	Assistant Professor of the Department of General Biology at USAC, Guatemala.
2013 - 2012	Assistant Professor of General Biology course at CEMA, USAC, Guatemala.
2013 - 2012	Assistant Professor of Aquatic Zoology course at the Center for Marine andAquaculture Studies (CEMA), USAC, Guatemala.

Since 2020	OWSD - Communication Committee, outreach and social media manager.
Since 2020	OWSD - Organization for Woman in Science for the Developing World. Chapter Guatemala https://owsd.net/network/guatemala
Since 2020	PAGES ECN RR - Regional Representative for Central and South America. http://pastglobalchanges.org/ecn/regional-reps
Since 2016	PAGES ECN - Past Global Changes Early-Career Network. http://pastglobalchanges.org/ecn/intro
Since 2014	CYPRIS - International Research Group on Ostracoda. http://www.irgo.uni-koeln.de/ Unique member representing the Guatemalan ostracodes research.

2020	Ask a scientist (in Spanish).	Part 1 Part 2
2020	STEM story-tell Book publication “Scientists jumping into the water” (in Spanish).	Click!

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Paleoecological indicators: knowing the past to understand the future in Guatemala, course: Principles of Paleontology and Geology (in Spanish) 17.10.2020.

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