Andia Chaves Fonnegra

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Andia Chaves Fonnegra
NationalityColombian
Alma materUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
Nova Southeastern University
Scientific career
Fieldsmarine biology
marine ecology
InstitutionsUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
INVEMAR
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Colombia)
Florida Atlantic University
ThesisIncreases of excavating sponges on Caribbean coral reefs : reproduction, dispersal and coral deterioration (2014)
Doctoral advisorJose V. Lopez

Andia Chaves Fonnegra is a Colombian marine biologist known for her research on the marine sponge Cliona delitrix.

Education and career[]

Chaves Fonnegra earned her bachelor's degree (2003) form Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and her master's degree (2006) in marine biology from the National University of Colombia.[1] In 2007 she taught at Colombia's Universidad Pedagógica Nacional before moving to the University of Alberta where she worked from 2007 to 2008. In 2009 she moved to Florida and became a graduate student at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), where she graduated in 2014 with a PhD in oceanography and marine biology.[1][2] Fonnegra's dissertation was "Increase of Excavating Sponges on Caribbean Coral Reefs: Reproduction, Dispersal, and Coral Deterioration".[3] After graduation, she worked as postdoctoral researcher and Adjunct Faculty at NSO. In 2016 she continue as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Marine and Environmental Studies (CMES) - University of the Virgin Islands, and in 2018 as Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Mississippi.

The excavating action of the sponge Cliona delitrix on the coral reefs is Andia Chaves' main line of research.

In 2018, Chaves Fonnegra became an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, where she holds a joint appointment between the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.[2] She is known for her research on the marine sponge Cliona delitrix,[4] an organism that grows between the calcium carbonate that forms the skeleton of coral reefs and that, through an excavating action, gradually deteriorates the coral.[5] In the Caribbean Sea the development of this sponge has accelerated in recent years, resulting in the gradual erosion of corals, altering the ecosystem.[6][7]

Awards and honors[]

  • 2002 - SIGMA XI Grant Award, Scientific Research Society[8]
  • 2006 - Meritorious Mention Master's Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia[citation needed]
  • 2008 - Donald Ross Academic Merit, University of Alberta[9]
  • 2011 - L'Oréal-UNESCO Scholarship for Women in Science[10][11][6]
  • 2014 - Student Life Achievement Award, Nova Southeastern University[12]
  • 2019 - Gulf Research Program’s Early-Career Research Fellowships of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.[13]
  • 2021 - EPA Grant.

Selected publications[]

  • Zea Sven, López-Victoria Mateo, Chaves Andia. 2003. Las Clionas: musas díscolas del arrecife. Colombia: Ciencia y Tecnología, 21 (3): 42-47. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235965842_Las_Clionas_musas_discolas_del_arrecife
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Fiorenzano Mauricio, Pantaleón-Lizarazú Alejandra M., Rodríguez-Gacha Diego F., Franco-Herrera Andrés,López-Victoria Mateo. 2005. Aves de un manglar en el PNN Tayrona, Caribe colombiano. Boletín SAO, XV (1): 3-12. http://www.sao.org.co/publicaciones/boletinsao/XV.htm.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, López-Victoria Mateo, Parra-Velandia Fernando, Zea Sven. 2005. Ecología química de las esponjas excavadoras Cliona aprica, C. caribbaea, C. delitrix y C. tenuis. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, 34: 39-59. http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612005000100002.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Zea Sven, Gómez Martha L. 2007. Abundance of the excavating sponge Cliona delitrix in relation to sewage discharge at San Andrés Island, SW Caribbean, Colombia. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, 36(1): 63-78. http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612007000100004.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Castellanos, Leonardo; Zea, Sven; Duque, Carmenza; Rodríguez, Jaime; Jiménez, Carlos (2008). "Clionapyrrolidine A—A Metabolite from the Encrusting and Excavating Sponge Cliona tenuis that Kills Coral Tissue upon Contact". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 34 (12): 1565–1574. doi:10.1007/s10886-008-9565-5. PMID 19023625. S2CID 21404694.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Zea, Sven (2011). "Coral colonization by the encrusting excavating Caribbean sponge Cliona delitrix". Marine Ecology. 32 (2): 162–173. Bibcode:2011MarEc..32..162C. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00416.x.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Zea Sven. 2011. Coral colonization by the encrusting excavating Caribbean sponge Cliona delitrix. Marine Ecology, 32: 162-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00416.x.
  • Hill Malcom S., Hill April L., Lopez Jose V., Perterson Kevin J., Pomponi Shirley, Diaz Maria C., Thacker Robert W., Adamska Maja, Boury-Esnault Nicole, Cárdenas Paco, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Danka Elizabeth, De Laine Bre-Onna, Formica Dawn, Hajdu Eduardo, Lobo-Hajdu Gisele, Klontz Sarah, Morrow Christine C, Patel Jignasa, Picton Bernards, Pisani Davide, Pohlmann Deborah, Redmond Niamh E., Reed John, Richie Stacy, Riesgo Ana, Rubin Ewelina, Russell Zach, Rützler Klaus, Sperling Erick A., di Stefano Michael, Tarver James E., Collins Allen G. 2013. Reconstruction of family-level phylogenetic relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) using nuclear encoded housekeeping genes. Public Library of Science (PLOS) One, 8(1): e50437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050437.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Maldonado, Manuel; Blackwelder, Patricia; Lopez, Jose V. (2015). "Asynchronous reproduction and multi-spawning in the coral-excavating sponge Cliona delitrix". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 96 (2): 515–528. doi:10.1017/S0025315415000636. hdl:10261/121387. ISSN 0025-3154.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra, A. (2014). Increase of excavating sponges on Caribbean coral reefs: Reproduction, dispersal, and coral deterioration. Dissertation. Nova Southeastern University.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Feldheim, Kevin A.; Secord, Jesse; Lopez, Jose V. (2015). "Population structure and dispersal of the coral-excavating sponge Cliona delitrix". Molecular Ecology. 24 (7): 1447–1466. doi:10.1111/mec.13134. PMID 25732628. S2CID 4492547.
  • Halperin Ariel, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Gilliam David S. 2016. Effect of excavating-sponge removal on coral growth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 96(2), 473–479. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315415001228.
  • St. Gelais Adam T., Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Brownlee Allison S., Kosmynin Vladimir N., Moulding Alison L., Gilliam David S. 2016. Fecundity and sexual maturity of the coral Siderastrea siderea at high latitude along the Florida Coral Reef Tract, USA. Invertebrate Biology: 135(1): 46-57. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ivb.12115.
  • Brandt, Marilyn E.; Olinger, Lauren K.; Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Olson, Julie B.; Gochfeld, Deborah J. (2019). "Coral recruitment is impacted by the presence of a sponge community". Marine Biology. 166 (4). doi:10.1007/s00227-019-3493-5. S2CID 91626018.
  • Torsten, Thomas, Moitinho-Silva Lucas, Lurgi Miguel, Björk, Johannes R., Easson Cole, Astudillo Carmen, Olson, Julie B., Erwin Patrick M., López-Legentil Susanna, Luter Heidi, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Costa Rodrigo, Schupp Peter, Steindler Laura, Erpenbeck Dirk, Gilbert Jack, Knight Rob, Ackerman Gail, Lopez Jose V., Taylor Michael W., Thacker Robert W., Montoya Jose M., Hentschel Ute, Webster Nicole S. 2016. Global Sponge Microbiome: Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome. Nature Communications 7, article number 11870. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11870.
  • St. Gelais Adam T., Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Kosmynin Vladimir N., Moulding Alison L., Gilliam David S. 2016. Siderastrea siderea spawning and oocyte resorption at high latitude. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 60 (3): 212-222. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07924259.2016.1194334.
  • Halperin Ariel*, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Gilliam David S. 2017. Coral-excavating sponge Cliona delitrix: current trends of space occupation on high latitude coral reefs. Hydrobiologia, 790(1):299-310. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-016-3042-x.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Riegl Bernard, Zea Sven, Lopez Jose V., Brandt Marilyn E., Smith Tyler B., Gilliam David S. 2018. Bleaching events regulate shifts from coral to excavating sponges. Global Change Biology, 24(2):773-785. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.13962.
  • Easson Cole, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Thacker Robert W., Lopez Jose V. 2020. Host population genetics and biogeography structure the microbiome of the sponge Cliona delitrix. Ecology and Evolution. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6033.
  • Gochfeld Deborah J., Olson Julie B., Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Smith Tyler B., Ennis Rosmin S. and Brandt Marilyn E. 2020. Impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Coral Reef Sponge Communities in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Estuaries and Coasts 43: 1235–1247. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-020-00694-4.
  • Olinger Lauren*, Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Enochs Ian C., Brandt Marilyn E. 2021. Three Competitors in Three Dimensions: Photogrammetry Reveals Rapid Overgrowth of Coral During Multispecies Competition with Sponges and Algae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 657:109-121. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v657/p109-121.
  • Chaves-Fonnegra Andia, Panassiti Bernd, Smith Tyler B., Brown Elizabeth, Clemens Elizabeth, Sevier Moriah, Brandt Marilyn E. 2021. Environmental and biological drivers of white plague disease on shallow and mesophotic coral reefs. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05527.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Curricullum Vitae (in Spanish) Colciencias (colciencias.gov.co)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Curriculum Vitae". Laboratory of Marine and Coastal Eclogy, Florida Atlantic University.
  3. ^ Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia (2014-04-01). "Increase of Excavating Sponges on Caribbean Coral Reefs: Reproduction, Dispersal, and Coral Deterioration". HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations.
  4. ^ Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia; Zea, Sven (2011). "Coral colonization by the encrusting excavating Caribbean sponge Cliona delitrix". Marine Ecology. 32 (2): 162–173. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00416.x. ISSN 1439-0485.
  5. ^ Kaye, Ken (February 21, 2014). "'Beautiful' sponge threatens reefs". South Florida Sun Sentinel.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Andia Chaves Fonnegra: científica colombiana ganadora de premio internacional Colciencias, 2 March 2011
  7. ^ "La científica Andia Chaves explica la situación de los corales". El Tiempo. 23 March 2011.
  8. ^ "Grants in aid of research recipients" (PDF).
  9. ^ "A celebration of research and innovation" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Outstanding women scientists to receive 2011 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards (3 March) and Fellowships (2 March)".
  11. ^ "Outstanding women scientists to receive 2011 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards and Fellowships". Geneva, Switzrland: UNESCO. 25 February 2011.
  12. ^ "Student life achievement awards".
  13. ^ Galoustian, Gisele (September 30, 2019). "Faculty Receive National Academies' Early-Career Research Fellowships".

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