Research Interests

• Cyanobacteria and microalgae ecology
• Carotenoid functional diversity
• Photosynthesis ecophysiology in irradiance and spectral gradients
• Ocean-Lakes comparative plankton ecology

Education

2018 - 2024
PhD. Remote Sensing
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
The roles of eutrophication and light on phytoplankton community assembly and biodiversity in North American lakes

Research Experience

Post-Doctoral fellow (2024 - present)
Takuvik
Université Laval, Canada

Highly Qualified Personnel (2018 - 2024)
NSERC Canadian LakePulse Network
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Research and teaching assistant (2013 - 2018)
Limnology section
University of the Republic, Uruguay

Publications

2024

Le Noac’h, P., Cremella, B., Kim, J., Soria-Píriz, S., del Giorgio, P. A., Pollard, A. I., Huot, Y., & Beisner, B. E. (2024). Nutrient availability is the main driver of nanophytoplankton phago-mixotrophy in North American lake surface waters. Journal of Plankton Research, 46(1), 9–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad054

2023

Bonilla, S., Aguilera, A., Aubriot, L., Huszar, V., Almanza, V., Haakonsson, S., Izaguirre, I., O’Farrell, I., Salazar, A., Becker, V., Cremella, B., Ferragut, C., Hernandez, E., Palacio, H., Rodrigues, L. C., Sampaio da Silva, L. H., Santana, L. M., Santos, J., Somma, A., … Antoniades, D. (2023). Nutrients and not temperature are the key drivers for cyanobacterial biomass in the Americas. Harmful Algae, 121, 102367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2022.102367

Bonilla, S., Cremella, B., Acuña, V., & Haakonsson, S. (2023). Pigment assemblages in subtropical bloom-forming cyanobacteria strains. Journal of Plankton Research, 45(5), 746–750. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad035

2022

Alcántara, I., Somma, A., Chalar, G., Fabre, A., Segura, A., Achkar, M., Arocena, R., Aubriot, L., Baladán, C., Barrios, M., Bonilla, S., Burwood, M., Calliari, D. L., Calvo, C., Capurro, L., Carballo, C., Céspedes-Payret, C., Conde, D., Corrales, N., Cremella, B., … García-Rodríguez, F. (2022). A reply to “Relevant factors in the eutrophication of the Uruguay River and the Río Negro”. Science of The Total Environment, 818, 151854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151854

Cremella, B., Bélanger, S., & Huot, Y. (2022). Aquatic particulate absorption coefficient combining extraction and bleaching optimized for inland waters. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 20(7), 451–465. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10497

Pahlevan, N., Smith, B., Alikas, K., Anstee, J., Barbosa, C., Binding, C., Bresciani, M., Cremella, B., Giardino, C., Gurlin, D., Fernandez, V., Jamet, C., Kangro, K., Lehmann, M. K., Loisel, H., Matsushita, B., Hà, N., Olmanson, L., Potvin, G., … Ruiz-Verdù, A. (2022). Simultaneous retrieval of selected optical water quality indicators from Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112860

2020

Vico, P., Bonilla, S., Cremella, B., Aubriot, L., Iriarte, A., & Piccini, C. (2020). Biogeography of the cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis (Cylindrospermopsis) raciborskii: Integrating genomics, phylogenetic and toxicity data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 148, 106824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106824

2018

Cremella, B., Huot, Y., & Bonilla, S. (2018). Interpretation of total phytoplankton and cyanobacteria fluorescence from cross-calibrated fluorometers, including sensitivity to turbidity and colored dissolved organic matter. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 16(12). https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10290