Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales is a quantitative coral reef ecologist, oceanographer and TEK Diver with a high interest in the depth gradient of marine ecosystems.

He is currently a PostDoc at HKUST at Ocean Ecol Lab. Previously was a postdoc investigator at WHOI at Cohen Lab, working on the Super Reefs and Digital Reefs Projects.

Bio: After a B.Sc. in Marine Science – Oceanography in the Canary Islands, I moved to Australia, where I joined the amazing world of Coral Reefs. Following academic volunteering programs and after being a fieldwork team member for “Chasing Coral”, I committed myself to the world of Coral Reefs Research and Communication. Finishing a M.Sc. in Biodiversity and Environmental Management of Coral Reefs between France and French Polynesia. I completed a Ph.D. at EPHE-PSL at the CRIOBE focusing on the Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of French Polynesia, again between French Polynesia and France. During my thesis entitled: Diving deep on the reef slopes in French Polynesia: new insights into mesophotic coral ecosystems. I was under the supervision of Laetitia Hédouin and Valeriano Parravicini. This thesis was possible thanks to the DEEPHOPE expedition and project with the Under The Pole team, for which I was an offshore scientist collecting data for my thesis and for others. The thesis was mostly carried out in French Polynesia.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Symbiotic associations of the deepest recorded photosynthetic scleractinian coral (172 m depth) | article Rouzé H, Galand PE, Medina M, Bongaerts P, Pichon M, Pérez-Rosales G, Torda G, Moya A, Under The Pole Consortium, Raina J-B, Hédouin L (2021) ISME J
	Mesophotic coral communities escape thermal coral bleaching in French Polynesia | article Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Torda G, Bongaerts P, Pichon M, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2021) R Soc Open Sci 8:210139
	Mesophotic depths hide high coral cover communities in French Polynesia | article Pérez-Rosales G, Hernández-Agreda A, Bongaerts P, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Carlot J, Torda G, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022) Science of The Total Environment
	Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian assemblages | article Pérez-Rosales G, Pichon M, Rouzé H, Villéger S, Torda G, Bongaerts P, Carlot J, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022) Diversity and Distributions 28: 1391–1403
	Diving deep on the reef slopes in French Polynesia: new insights into mesophotic coral ecosystems | thesis Pérez-Rosales G (2022) Theses France / PSL Université Paris
	Fish sounds of photic and mesophotic coral reefs: variation with depth and type of island | article Raick X, Di Iorio L, Lecchini D, Gervaise C, Hédouin L, Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Bertucci F, Parmentier E (2023) Coral Reefs 42:285–297
	Differential strategies developed by two light-dependent scleractinian corals to extend their vertical range to mesophotic depths | article Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Bongaerts P, Bregere N, Carlot J, Parravicini V, Hedouin L, Under The Pole Consortium (2024) Coral Reefs

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