Inside the project FONDECYT 1150296, marine biologist Gissella Castillo-Hidalgo and the student of the Master in Oceanography program, Ana Maria Galeano, from Colombia, has just started the extraction of sagitta otoliths of the recently settled individuals of triplefin Helcogrammoides chilensis and the blennies Scartichthys viridis and S. gigas.
Juvenil de borrachilla Scartichthys viridis / Juvenile blenny Scartichthys viridis
Juvenil de trombollito de tres aletas Helcogrammoides chilensis / Juvenile triplefin Helcogrammoides chilensis
Otolitos sagitta de S. viridis / Sagittae otoliths of S. viridis
Ana María Galeano
Gissella Castillo-Hidalgo
The lab work is now been done at the Laboratorio de Esclerocronología at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, headed by Dr. Guido Plaza