Silvio Pantoja G.
Silvio Pantoja G.PhD Oceanografía, Stony Brook University, NY, Estados Unidos. Post Doctoral Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Estados Unidos. Cátedra UNESCO de Oceanografía Costera.

Líneas de investigación:
Geoquímica Orgánica Marina: Destino y transformaciones microbianas de moléculas orgánicas naturales y contaminantes emergentes en el océano.

Rol biogeoquímico de hongos marinos en el océano.

E-mail:
spantoja@udec.cl

Teléfono:
+56 41 220 3499

Casilla:
160-C

Proyectos:

  • 2025. Co-Investigador.  Proyecto CRUCERO CIMAR 30 NORTE Potencial efecto fertilizador del polvo proveniente del desierto de Atacama sobre la fotosíntesis de materia orgánica en el Pacífico Suroriental frente al norte de Chile.
  • 2023-presente.  Investigador Principal del Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica COPAS-Coastal.  Ministerio de CTCI, ANID.  FB210021
  • 2024-2025. Investigador FONDEF IDeA I+D 2024.  Modelo para la evaluación e investigación de mecanismos de mitigación y remediación aplicados a ambientes marinos alterados por acuicultura.  Ministerio de CTCI, ANID.  ID24I10236
  • 2022-2023.  Investigador Principal y Director alterno del Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica COPAS-Coastal.  Ministerio de CTCI, ANID.  FB210021
  • 2020-2025 Investigador Responsable.  Contaminants in the coastal ocean:  The role of priming on natural bioremediation in marine sediments. Ministerio de CTCI, ANID.  FONDECYT 1200252. 
  • 2023- 2027.  Co-Investigador. Synapt Xs: A High-resolution Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometer for Chilean Frontier Research in Mass Spectrometry-based Approaches Applied to Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences.  FONDEQUIP MAYOR. EQY220018.  PI Dr. Mario Aranda (PUC).
  • 2022-2023.  Director. Pasareleando entre la Ciencia y la Cultura.  Fondo de Ciencia Pública, Ministerio de CTCI.  CP21-E026
  • 2020-2022  Investigador Principal. ROMTOX: Research on Organic Matter TOXicity in marine waters.  Universidad de Concepción/Sorbone Université.  ANID REDES190106
  • 2018-2021. Director del Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica COPAS Sur-Austral. ANID PIA AFB170006

Publicaciones científicas desde 2020

  1. Sarah Magozzi, 35 co-autores, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.  2026. Compilation datasets and spatial models are not a substitute for structured sampling in baseline isoscape development: a test case in the Mediterranean Sea.  Progress in Oceanography, Aceptada.
  1. Jarmo-Charles J. Kalinski, Abzer K. Pakkir Mohamed Shah, Bruno Ruiz Brandäo da Costa, Shane P. Farrell, Lisa Schellenberg, Lana G. Graves, Tilman Schramm, Paolo Stincone, Irina Koester, Brandon M. Stephens, Ralph R. Torres, Lucia Cancelada, Caroline Utermann-Thüsing, Zachary A. Quinlan, Linda Wegley Kelly, Craig A. Carlson, Cristóbal Castillo-Ilabaca, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, J. Michael Beman, Aaron Hartmann, Allegra Aron, Xavier Siwe Noundou, Rosemary A. Dorrington, Deniz Tasdemir, Andreas F. Haas, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Craig E. Nelson, Lihini I. Aluwihare, Mingxun Wang, Daniel Petras.  2026. Widespread presence of anthropogenic compounds in marine dissolved organic matter. Nature Geoscience, Volume 19 Issue 4, April 2026, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-01928-z;  https://www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes/19/issues/4#Analysis. 
  1. Cristóbal Castillo-Ilabaca, Gerdhard L Jessen, Mario Aranda, Camila Fernández, Laurence Méjanelle, Marcelo H Gutiérrez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.  2025. Evidence for priming-enhanced microbial degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 224 (2025) 119163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.119163
  1. Valentina Valdés-Castro, Diego A. Narváez, Marcelo H. Gutiérrez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez,  Camila Fernández. 2025. Biogeochemical features along the northern and central Patagonian shelf during a spring cruise: implications for biological productivity.  Progress in Oceanography 236, 103511.  DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103511. 
  1. Cristóbal Castillo-Ilabaca, Marcelo H Gutiérrez, Mario Aranda, Karem Henríquez-Aedo, Alexandra Pereira, Marco Salamanca, Pierre E Galand, Gerdhard L Jessen, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.  2024. PAH contamination in coastal surface sediments and associated bacterial communities.  Scientific Reports 14:29053.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78905-2
  1. Benjamín M Srain, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.  2022.  Microbial production of toluene in Oxygen Minimum Zone waters in the Humboldt Current System off Chile.  Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 10669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14103-2
  1. Bibiana Jara, Benjamín M. Srain, Mario Aranda, Camila Fernández, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Laurence Méjanelle.  2022. Water-sediment partitioning of flumequine and florfenicol, two antibiotics used in salmon aquaculture in Chile.  Marine Pollution Bulletin 177, 113480, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113480
  1. Alberto Jorquera, Cristóbal Castillo, Vladimir Murillo, Juan Araya, Javier Pinochet, Diego Narváez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Mauricio A. Urbina. 2022.  Physical and anthropogenic drivers shaping the spatial distribution of microplastics in the marine sediments of Chilean fjords.   Science of the Total Environment 814 (2022) 152506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152506
  1. Matthias Troch, Sebastien Bertrand, Carina B. Lange, Paola Cárdenas, Helge Arz, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Rolf Killian.  2022. Glacial isostatic adjustment near the center of the former Patagonian Ice Sheet (48S) during the last 16.5 kyr.  Quaternary Science Reviews 277, 107346 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107346
  1. John E. Garzón-Cardona, Valeria A. Guinder, Cecilia Alonso, Ana M. Martínez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Germán A. Kopprio, Bernd Krock, Rubén J. Lara.  2021.  Chemically unidentified dissolved organic carbon: A pivotal piece for microbial activity in a productive area of the Northern Patagonian shelf.  Marine Environmental Research 167, 105286.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105286
  1. Bibiana Jara, Felipe Tucca, Benjamín M Srain, Laurence Méjanelle, Mario Arandae, Camila Fernández, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.  2021.  Antibiotics florfenicol and flumequine in the water column and sediments of Puyuhuapi Fjord, Chilean Patagonia.  Chemosphere 275 (130029). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130029
  1. Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Erika Jorquera, Valeria Anabalón, Benjamín Srain, Wolfgang Schneider.  2020.  Fatty acid composition in the endemic Humboldt Current krill, Euphausia mucronata (Crustacea, Euphausiacea) in relation to the phytoplankton community and oceanographic variability off Dichato coast in central Chile.  Progress in Oceanography,  188, 102425.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102425
  1. Manuel Gacitua, Catalina Urrejola, Javiera Carrasco, Rafael Vicuña, Benjamín Srain, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Donal Leech, Riccarda Antiochia, Federico Tasca.  2020. Use of a Thermophile Desiccation-Tolerant Cyanobacterial Culture and Os Redox Polymer for the Preparation of Photocurrent Producing Anodes.  Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8:900. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00900.
  1. Benjamín M. Srain, Marcus Sobarzo, Giovanni Daneri, Humberto E. González, Giovanni Testa, Laura Farías, Alex Schwarz, Norma Pérez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez.2020. Fermentation and Anaerobic Oxidation of Organic Carbon in the Oxygen Minimum Zone of the Upwelling Ecosystem Off Concepción, in Central Chile.  Frontiers in Marine Science 7:533. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00533.
  1. Cristóbal Castillo, Camila Fernández, Marcelo H. Gutiérrez, Mario Aranda, Mauricio A. Urbina, Jorge Yáñez, Ángela Álvarez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez. 2020. Water column circulation drives microplastic distribution in the Martínez- Baker channels; A large fjord ecosystem in Chilean Patagonia. Marine Pollution Bulletin 160 111591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111591. 
  1. Sasha Wagner, Florence Schubotz, Karl Kaiser, Christian Hallmann, Hannelore Waska, Pamela E. Rossel, Roberta Hansman, Marcus Elvert,
    Jack J. Middelburg, Anja Engel, Thomas M. Blattmann, Teresa S. Catalá, Sinikka T. Lennartz, Gonzalo V. Gomez-Saez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Rui Bao, Valier Galy. 2020.  Soothsaying DOM: A Current Perspective on the Future of Oceanic Dissolved Organic Carbon.  Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 341.  doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00341.
  1. Marcelo H. Gutiérrez, Jeanett Vera, Benjamin Srain, Renato A. Quiñones, Lars Wörmer, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez. 2020. Biochemical fingerprints of marine fungi: implications for trophic and biogeochemical studies.   Aquatic Microbial Ecology 84, 75-90DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01927.
  1. Elke Vandekerkhove, Sébastien Bertrand, Eleonora Crescenzi Lanna, Brian Reid, Silvio Pantoja. 2020.  Modern sedimentary processes at the heads of Baker and Steffen fjords, Chilean Patagonia.  Marine Geology 419, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106076