2018-2022: SCOR WG 155 The Eastern boundary upwelling systems (EBUS). Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research. Co-chair.

2010-2018: Proyecto Pacific Sub-node OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System (http:/ron.udec.cl). Financiado por Rutger’s University, USA y patrocinado por el Programa IODE de la COI (Comisión Oceanográfica Intergubernamental). Investigador Principal Chile.

2014-1018 Oceanographic Time Series in America. Proyecto ANTARES. CRN 3094 Inter American Institute for Climate Change (IAI). Investigador Responsable.

2011-2018 Laboratorio Internacional Asociado. Proyecto de Colaboración Internacional CNRS-Universidad de Concepción. Financiado por CNRS de Francia. Investigador Coordinador de Contraparte UdeC.

2020-2022 Fortalecimiento de capacidades técnico-científicas de nuevos métodos para el estudio de la biodiversidad marina en Colombia y Chile (BIOMACC). Agencia Chilena de Cooperación Internacional (AGCI)- Agencia de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia Investigador Responsable UdeC.

2021-2023 Metabolic and molecular responses to environmentally relevant multiple stressors in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ): hypoxia and elevated carbon dioxide. FONDECYT 1210071. Coinvestigador.

2013-2023 Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía. IC120019. Iniciativa Científica Milenio, Ministerio de Economía. Director Alterno e Investigador Asociado.

2018-2021 Zooplankton dynamics in the Chilean eastern boundary upwelling system under a changing ocean. FONDECYT 1181682. Investigador Responsable.

2019-2021 Proyecto TROPHONET. Red de Colaboraciòn CONICYT REDES 180039. Investigador Responsable.

2016-2017 First steps for uncovering the unknown in the deep ocean of the eastern South Pacific: linking habitats features and biological communities. CONICYT Proyecto AUB160003. Concurso Asignación de Tiempo Buque Cabo de Hornos. Investigador Responsable.

2016-2017 Estructura y funcionamiento de comunidades pelágicas que habitan la región asociada a la Islas oceánicas, montes submarinos y cuenca abisal del Pacífico Sur Oriental. Crucero CIMAR 22: Islas Oceánicas. Comisión Oceanográfica Nacional (CONA), Ministerio de Hacienda. Investigador Responsable.

Fernández-Urruzola, I., Ulloa, O., Glud, R.N., Pinkerton, M.H., Schneider, W., Wenzhöfer, F., Escribano, R. 2021. Plankton respiration in the Atacama Trench region: Implications for particulate organic carbon flux into the hadal realm. Limnology & Oceanography. 1-15. doi: 10.1002/lno.11866.

Medellín-Mora, J., Escribano, R., Corredor-Acosta, A., Hidalgo, P., Schneider, W. 2021. Diversity and distribution of pelagic copepods in the oligotrophic blue water of the south Pacific subtropical gyre. Frontiers in Marine Science (accepted).

Weston, J.N.J., Espinosa-Leal, L., Wainwright, J.A.,Stewart, E.Cd. González, C.E, Linley,T.D:, Reid, W., Hidalgo, P., Oliva, M.E, Ulloa, O., Wenzhöfer, ., Glud, R., Escribano, R., Jamieson, A.J. 2021. Eurythenes atacamensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) exhibits ontogenetic vertical stratification across abyssal and hadal depths in the Atacama Trench, eastern South Pacific Ocean Marine Biodiversity. 51:51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-021-01182-z

Parada, C., Ernst, B, Cornejo-Guzmán, S., Santa Cruz, F., Sandoval-Belmar, M., Rivara, P., Tapia, B., Gauthier, S., Pino-Aguilera, J., Escribano, R., Morales, C.E. 2021. Chlorophyll-a and zooplankton variability around the Robinson Crusoe Island forced by mesoscale and sub-mesoscale features: A multidisciplinary approach. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31:253–272. http://DOI:10.1002/aqc.3499

Espinosa-Leal, L, Escribano, R. Riquelme-Bugueño, R., Corredor-Acosta, A. 2021. Distribution and biodiversity patterns of hyperiid amphipods across the coastal-offshore gradient of the sub-tropical Southeast Pacific. Marine Diversity 51:13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01152-x

González, C.E., Medellín-Mora, J., Escribano, R. 2020. Environmental gradients and spatial patterns of calanoid copepods in the Southeast Pacific. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:554409. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.554409

Espinosa-Leal, L., Medellín-Mora, J., Corredor-Acosta, A., Escribano, R. 2020. Hyperiid amphipods associated with two seamounts regions in the southeast Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biology Association UK. 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315420001344.

Espinosa-Leal, L., Bode, A., Escribano, R. 2020. Zonal and depth patterns in the trophic and community structure of hyperiid amphipods in the Southeast Pacific. Deep–Sea Research I 165 (2020) 103402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103402.

Riquelme‑Bugueño, R., Pérez‑Santos, I., Alegría, N., Vargas, C.A., Urbina, M.A., Escribano, R. 2020. Diel vertical migration into anoxic and high‑pCO2 waters: acoustic and net‑based krill observations in the Humboldt Current. Scientific Reports 10:17181. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73702-z.

González, C.E., Coetze, E., Escribano, R., Victoriano, P., Ulloa, O. 2020. Genetic diversity and novel lineages in the cosmopolitan copepod Pleuromamma abdominalis in the Southeast Pacific. Nature, Scientific Report. 10:1115 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56935-5.

Tutasi, P., Escribano, R. 2020. Zooplankton diel vertical migration and downward C flux into the Oxygen Minimum Zone in the highly productive upwelling region off Northern Chile. Biogeoscience 17, 455–473. doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-455-2020.

Ñacari, L., Sepúlveda, F.A., Droguet, F., Escribano, R, Oliva, M.E., 2020. Calicotyle hydrolagi n. sp. (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) infecting the deep-sea Eastern Pacific black ghost shark Hydrolagus melanophasma from the Atacama Trench, with comments on host specificity of Calicotyle spp.  Parasitology International 75 (2020) 102025.

Medellin-Mora, J., Atkinson, A., Escribano, R. 2019. Community structured production of zooplankton in the eastern boundary upwelling system off central/southern Chile (2003-2012). ICES Jounal of Marine Sciences, 77(1) 419-435. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsz193

Riascos, J.M., Gutiérrez, D.A., Escribano, R., Thadje, S. 2019. Editorial: El Niño-Southern Oscillation on a Changing Planet –Consequences for Coastal Ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Sciences, doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00774

Ñacari, L., Sepúlveda, F.A., Escribano, R., Oliva, M.E. 2019. Two new species of Acanthocotyle Monticelli, 1888 (Monogenea: Acanthocotylidae), parasites of two deep-sea skates (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes) in the South-East Pacific. Parasite & Vectors. doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3756-5.

Todd, R.E., Chavez, F.P, Clayton, S., Cravatte, S., Goes, M., Graco, M., Lin, X., Sprintall, J., Zilberman, N.V., Archer, M., Arístegui, J., Balmaseda, M., Bane, J.M., Baringer, M.O., Barth, J.A., Beal, L.M., Brandt, P., Calil, P.H.R., Campos, E., Centurioni, L.R., Chidichimo, M.P., Cirano, M., Cronin, M.F., Curchitser, E.N., Davis, R.E., Dengler, M., deYoung, B., Dong, S., Escribano, R., Fassbender, A.J., Fawcett, S.E., Feng, M., Goni, G.J., Gray, A.R., Gutiérrez, D., Hebert, D., Hummels, R., Ito, S., Krug, M., Lacan, F., Laurindo, L., Lazar, A., Lee, C.M., Lengaigne, M., Levine, N.M., Middleton, J., Montes, I., Muglia, M., Nagai, T-, Palevsky, H.I., Palter, J.B., Phillips, H.E., Piola, A., Plueddemann, A.J., Qiu, B., Rodrigues, R.R., Roughan, M., Rudnick, D.R., Rykaczewski, R.R., Saraceno, M., Seim, H., Gupta, A.S., Shannon, L., Sloyan, B.M., Sutton, A.J., Thompson, L.A., van der Plas, A.K., Volkov, D., Wilkin, J., Zhang, D., Zhang, L. 20019. Global Perspectives on Observing Ocean Boundary Current Systems. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00423

Baltar, F., Bayer, B., Bednarsek, N., Deppeler, S., Escribano, R., Gonzalez, C.E., Hansman, R.L., Kanta Mishra, R., Moran, M.A., Repeta, D.J., Robinson, C., Sintes, E., Tamburini, C., Valentin, L.E., Hernd, G.J. 2019. Towards Integrating Evolution, Metabolism, and Climate Change Studies of Marine Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.07.003.

Aguilera, V.M., Escribano, R., Vargas, C., González, M.T. 2019. Upwelling modulation of functional traits of a dominant planktonic grazer during “warm acid” El Niño 2015 in a year-round upwelling area of Humboldt Current. Plos One doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209823.

González, C.E., Bode, A., Escribano, R., Schneider, W. 2019. Zooplankton taxonomic and Trophic Community Structure Across Biogeochemical Regions in the Eastern South Pacific. Frontiers in Marine Sciences. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00498

Espínola-Novelo JF, Escribano R & Oliva ME. 2018. Metazoan parasite communities of two deep-sea elasmobranchs: the southern lanternshark, Etmopterus granulosus, and the largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus , in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. Parasite 25, 53-DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2018054

Valdés, V., Carlotti, F., Escribano, R., Fernández, C., Molina, V. 2018. Nitrogen and phosphorus recycling mediated by copepods and response of bacterioplankton community from three contrasting areas in the western tropical South Pacific (20 S)Biogeoscience. 15, 6019–6032. doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6019-2018

Frederick, L., Escribano, R., Morales, C.E., Hormazabal, S., Medellín-Mora, J. 2018. Mesozooplankton respiration and community structure in a seamount region of the eastern South Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 135: 74–87.

Dornelas, M. et al., Escribano, R. et al. 2018. BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Vol 27, issue 7. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12729

Medellín-Mora, J., Escribano, R., Schneider, W., Campos, N., Correa-Ramírez, M. 2018. Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. 66(2): 688-708. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i2.33401

Ruz, P.M., Hidalgo, P., Escribano, R., Keister, J.E.,Yebra, L., Franco-Cisterna, B. 2018. Hypoxia effects on females and early stages of Calanus chilensis in the Humboldt Current ecosystem (23ºS). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 498, 61-71.

Ñacari, L.A., Sepulveda, F.A., Escribano, R., Bray, R.A., Oliva, M.E. 2018. Morphological and molecular characterization of digenean parasites of the Galapagos sheephead Semicossyphus darwini (Jenyns) with the re-description of Labrifer secundus Manter 1940 ( Lepidapedidae) from the Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Systematic Parasitology. 95:391-401, DOI 10.1007/s11230-018-9787-z

Oliva, M.E., Valdivia, M.I., Cárdenas, L., Muñoz, G., Escribano, R. George-Nascimento, M., 2018. A new species of proctoeces and reinstatement of proctoeces humboldti George-Nascimento and Quiroga 1983 (Digenea:Fellodistomidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Parasitology International 67:159–169. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2017.10.004.

Valdés, V., Fernández, C., Molina, V., Escribano, R. 2018. Nitrogen excretion by copepods and its effect on ammonia-oxidizing communities from a coastal upwelling zone. Limnology & Oceanography 63: 278–294. DOI: 10.1002/lno.10629.

Guzmán, G. L., Escribano, R. 2018. Extensión del rango distribucional de Funchalia woodwardi para el Pacifico Sureste (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeidae). Revista de Biología Marina. Vol. 53, N°3: 349-352. Doi.org/10.22370/rbmo.2018.53.3.1359

Valdés, V., Fernández, C., Molina, V., Escribano, R., Joux, F. 2017. Dissolved compounds excreted by copepods reshape the active marine bacterioplankton community composition. Frontiers in Marine Science. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00343

Donoso, K., Carlotti, F., Pagano, M., Hunt, B.P.V., Escribano, R., Berline, L. 2017. Zooplankton community response to the winter 2013 deep convection process in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans DOI 10.1002/2016JC012176.

Ñacari, L.A., Sepúlveda, F.A., Escribano, R., Oliva, M.E. 2017. Acanthotyle gurgesiella n.sp. (Monogenea: ANcanthocotylidae) from the deep-sea skate Gurgesiella furvescens (Rajidae) in the south eastern Pacific. Journal of Helminthology. DOI:10.1017/S0022149X17000220.

Riquelme-Bugueño, R., Gómez-Gutiérrez, J., Escribano, R., Schneider, W. 2017. Embryo and early larval stages of the Humboldt Current krill Euphausia mucronata (Crustacea: Euphausiacea). Invertebrate Biology. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12176

Valdés, V., Escribano, R., Vergara, O. 2017. Scaling copepod grazing in a coastal upwelling system: the importance of community size structure for phytoplankton C flux. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 45(1): 41-54.

Schneider, W., Donoso, D., Garcés-Vargas, J., Escribano, R. 2016. Water-column cooling and sea surface salinity increase in the upwelling region off central-south Chile driven by a poleward displacement of the South Pacific. Progress in Oceanography. 141:38-58.

Anabalón, V., Morales, C.E., González, H.E., Menschel, E., Schneider, W., Hormazabal, S., Valencia, L., Escribano, R. 2016. Micro-phytoplankton community structure in the coastal upwelling zone off Concepción (central Chile): annual and inter-annual fluctuations in a highly dynamic environment. Progress in Oceanography. 149 (2016) 174–188

Riquelme-Bugueño, R., Gómez-Gutiérrez, J., Ruz, P., Hidalgo, P., Escribano, R., Schneider, W. 2016. First measurements of euphausiid growth rates in the northern Humboldt Current (23ºS) . Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 51: 435-440, DOI 10.4067/S0718-19572016000200020.

Escribano, R., Bustos-Ríos, E., Hidalgo, P., Morales. C.E. 2016.Non-limiting food conditions for growth and production of the copepod community in a highly productive upwelling zone. Continental Shelf Research. 126:1-14. Doi:10.1016/j.csr.2016.07.018

Riquelme-Bugueño, R., Silva-Aburto, J., Escribano, R., Peterson, B., Schneider, W., 2016. Growth of the Humboldt Current krill in the upwelling zone off central Chile. Journal of Marine Systems, 163:1-11.

Medellín-Mora, J., Escribano, R., Schneider, W. 2016. Community response of zooplankton to oceanographic changes (2002–2012) in the central/southern upwelling system of Chile. Progress in Oceanography 142:17-29.