Carlos M. Duarte

Duarte earned a bachelor's degree in environmental biology from Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, in 1982. In 1987, he obtained a Ph.D. in limnology from McGill University, advised by Jacob Kalff.

Upon receiving a Ph.D. in biology, Duarte returned to Spain where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (1987–1989), to then take a position as staff researcher with the Spanish National Research Council therein, and move to the ranks to research professor while moving to the Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (1989–1999), and to the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Mallorca (1999–2015). In 2011 Duarte took the role of inaugural director, and Winthrop Professor, at the UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia. In 2015 he joined the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division and the Red Sea Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he was appointed director of the Red Sea Research Center from 2016 to 2018. He also joined the Computational Biology Research Center there in 2017.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Marine Science],{{Cite journal|doi=10.3389/fmars.2018.00337|title=Ocean Solutions to Address Climate Change and Its Effects on Marine Ecosystems|year=2018|last1=Gattuso|first1=Jean-Pierre|last2=Magnan|first2=Alexandre K.|last3=Bopp|first3=Laurent|last4=Cheung|first4=William W. L.|last5=Duarte|first5=Carlos M.|last6=Hinkel|first6=Jochen|last7=McLeod|first7=Elizabeth|last8=Micheli|first8=Fiorenza|last9=Oschlies|first9=Andreas|last10=Williamson|first10=Phillip|last11=Billé|first11=Raphaël|last12=Chalastani|first12=Vasiliki I.|last13=Gates|first13=Ruth D.|last14=Irisson|first14=Jean-Olivier|last15=Middelburg|first15=Jack J.|last16=Pörtner|first16=Hans-Otto|last17=Rau|first17=Greg H.|journal=Frontiers in Marine Science|volume=5|page=337 |s2cid=52912765|doi-access=free|bibcode=2018FrMaS...5..337G |hdl=10754/629968|hdl-access=free}} and served or has served in the editorial board of multiple scientific journals. He has published over 900 scientific papers and many books and book chapters and supervised a large number of students and early career researchers.{{cite web | title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=T2-L50AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao/ }} He served as elected President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the largest professional society on marine sciences, and has received multiple awards and honors for his research contributions.

He has been recognized as a “Highly Cited Researcher”, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for a research field, in all the assessments conducted thus far, including the 2018 assessment,{{cite web | title=Highly cited researchers |url= https://hcr.clarivate.com// }} and in 2019 was ranked within the top 0.01% (ranked 887 among 7 million scientists evaluated) across all fields, the top ranked scientists in Marine Biology and Hydrology.{{cite book |last1=Baas |first1=Jeroen |title=Supplementary data tables for "A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field" (PLoS Biology 2019) |last2=Ionnadis |first2=John P. A. |last3=Klavans |first3=Richard |last4=Boyack |first4=Kevin |publisher=Mendeley |year=2019 |volume=1 |chapter=Bibliometrics |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.1 |chapter-url=https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/1}} In 2021 Duarte was ranked, by Reuters, as the 12th most influential climate scientist in the world.{{cite news | title= The Reuters Hot List: World's top climate scientists|newspaper= Reuters|url= https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-scientists-list/}} He was also ranked the 4th top scientist in Ecology and Evolution, and the top marine scientist in their rank.{{cite web | title= Top Ecology and Evolution Scientists|url= https://research.com/scientists-rankings/ecology-and-evolution}} Since 2021 Duarte also serves as executive director for the Global Coral R&D Accelerator Platform, CORDAP. On October 27, 2021, Prof. Duarte has been appointed Academic with the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences for his seminal contributions to further understanding marine ecosystems and their responses to global change.{{cite web |date=27 October 2021 |title=Duarte appointed Academic with Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences |url=https://rsrc.kaust.edu.sa/news/detail/2021/11/02/distinguished-professor-carlos-m.-duarte-has-been-appointed-academic-with-the-spanish-royal-academy-of-sciences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102064326/https://rsrc.kaust.edu.sa/news/detail/2021/11/02/distinguished-professor-carlos-m.-duarte-has-been-appointed-academic-with-the-spanish-royal-academy-of-sciences |archive-date=2 November 2021 |access-date=21 December 2022 |website=Red Sea Research Center}}

Duarte was originally trained as a limnologist and has contributed to understanding the ecology of freshwater plants in rivers and lakes, as well as the role of freshwater ecosystems in carbon cycling. His research in the ecology and biogeochemistry of seagrass meadows and other vegetated coastal systems eventually lead – in collaboration with different UN agencies - to the development of “Blue carbon” strategies to mitigate climate change.{{cite book |last1=Nellemann |first1=Christian |last2=Corcoran |first2=Emily |last3=Duarte |first3=Carlos |last4=Valdes |first4=Luis |last5=De Young |first5=Cassandra |last6=Fonseca |first6=Luciano |last7=Grimsditch |first7=Gabriel |date=2009 |title= Blue Carbon. The role of healthy oceans in binding carbon. A Rapid Response Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal.|url=https://ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Nellemann_2010_BlueCarbon_book.pdf |location=Norway |page=80 |isbn= 978-82-7701-060-1}}{{cite journal |last1=Duarte |first1=Carlos |last2=Cebrián |first2=Just |date= December 1996 |title=The fate of marine autotrophic production |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |volume=41 |issue=8 |pages=1758–1766 |doi=10.4319/lo.1996.41.8.1758 |bibcode=1996LimOc..41.1758D |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1= C. M. Duarte |last2=J.J. Middelburg |last3=N. Caraco |date= 2005 |title=Major role of marine vegetation on the oceanic carbon cycle |journal=Biogeosciences |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–8|doi=10.5194/bg-2-1-2005 |bibcode=2005BGeo....2....1D |doi-access=free |hdl=10261/88911 |hdl-access=free }}

Recognizing the many gaps in our understanding of the deep-sea pelagic ecosystem, Duarte led the Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition, involving more than 500 scientists, and that sailed the oceans between 2010 and 2011 to provide a global assessment of the deep-sea pelagic ecosystem. The Malaspina Expedition 2010 has thus far released over 200 publications addressing different aspects of the biodiversity and function of the deep-sea ecosystem.{{cite journal |last=C.M. Duarte |title=Seafaring in the 21st Century: The Malaspina 2010 Circumnavigation Expedition |journal= Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin|volume=24 |pages=11–14 |doi=10.1002/lob.10008|year=2015 |issue=1 |hdl=10754/347123 |url=https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/bitstream/10754/347123/1/Duarte-2015-Limnology_and_Oceanography_Bulletin.pdf |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015LimOB..24...11D }}{{cite journal |last1= X. Irigoien |last2=T.A. Klevjer|last3=A. Røstad |last4=U. Martinez |last5=G. Boyra |last6=J.L. Acuña |last7=J.I. Gonzalez-Gordillo |last8=S. Hernandez-Leon |last9=S. Agusti |last10=C.M. Duarte |last11=S. Kaartvedt |date= 2014 |title=Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean |journal=Nature Communications |volume=5 |pages=3271|number=3271 |doi=10.1038/ncomms4271|pmid=24509953|pmc=3926006|bibcode=2014NatCo...5.3271I}}{{cite journal |last1= A. Cózar |last2=F. Echevarría |last3=J.I. González-Gordillo |last4=X. Irigoien |last5=B. Úbeda |last6=S. Hernández-León |last7=A.T. Palma |last8=S. Navarro |last9=J. García-de-Lomas |last10=A. Ruiz |last11=M.L. Fernández-de-Puelles |last12=C.M. Duarte |date= 2014 |title=Plastic debris in the open ocean|journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=111 |issue=28 |pages=10239–10244 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1314705111|pmid=24982135 |pmc=4104848 |bibcode=2014PNAS..11110239C |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1= A. Cózar |last2=E. Marti |last3=C.M. Duarte |last4=J. García-de-Lomas |last5=E. van Sebille |last6=T.J. Ballatore |last7=V.M. Eguíluz |last8=J. Ignacio González-Gordillo |last9=M.L. Pedrotti |last10=F. Echevarría |last11=R. Troublè|last12=X. Irigoien |date= 2017 |title=The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation|journal= Science Advances |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=e1600582 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1600582|pmid=28439534 |pmc=5397136 |bibcode=2017SciA....3E0582C }}{{cite journal |last1= J.M. Arrieta |last2=E. Mayol |last3=R.L. Hansman |last4=G.J. Herndl |last5=T. Dittmar |last6=C.M. Duarte |date= 2015 |title=Dilution limits dissolved organic carbon utilization in the deep ocean |journal= Science |volume=348 |issue=6232 |pages=331–333 |doi=10.1126/science.1258955|pmid=25883355 |bibcode=2015Sci...348..331A |hdl=10261/151633 |s2cid=28514618 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1= S. Agusti |last2=J.L. González- Gordillo |last3=D. Vaqué |last4=M. Estrada |last5=M.I. Cerezo |last6=J.M. Gasol |last7=C.M. Duarte |date= 2015 |title=Ubiquitous healthy diatoms in the deep sea confirm deep carbon injection by the biological pump |journal= Nature Communications |volume=6 |issue=7608 |pages=7608 |doi=10.1038/ncomms8608|pmid=26158221 |pmc=4510647 |bibcode=2015NatCo...6.7608A }}{{cite journal |last1= B. González-Gaya |last2=M.C. Fernández-Pinos |last3=L. Morales |last4=E. Abad |last5=B. Piña |last6=L. Méjanelle |last7=C.M. Duarte |last8=B. Jiménez |last9=J. Dachs |date= 2016 |title=High atmosphere-ocean Exchange of semivolatile aromatic hydrocarbons |journal= Nature Geoscience |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=438–442 |doi=10.1038/ngeo2714|bibcode=2016NatGe...9..438G |hdl=10261/152479 }}{{cite journal |last1= P. Pinedo-González |last2=A.J. West |last3=A. Tovar-Sanchez |last4=C.M. Duarte |last5=S. A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy |date= 2018 |title=Concentration and isotopic composition of dissolved Pb in surface waters of the modern global ocean |journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |volume=235 |pages=41–54 |doi=10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.005 |bibcode=2018GeCoA.235...41P }}{{cite journal |last1=M. Mestre |last2=C. Ruiz-González |last3=R. Logares |last4=C.M. Duarte |last5=J.M. Gasol |last6=M.M. Sala |date= 2018 |title=Sinking particles promote vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA |volume=115 |issue=29 |pages=E6799–E6807 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1802470115|pmid=29967136 |pmc=6055141 |bibcode=2018PNAS..115E6799M |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1= E. Mayol |last2=J. Arrieta |last3=M. Jiménez |last4=A. Martínez-Asensio |last5=N. Garcias- Bonet |last6=J. Dachs |last7=B. González-Gaya |last8=S.J. Royer |last9=V. Benítez-Barrios |last10=E. Fraile-Nuez |last11=C.M. Duarte |date= 2017 |title=Long-range transport of airborne microbes over the global Tropical and Subtropical Ocean |journal=Nature Communications |volume=8 |pages=201 |number=201 |doi=10.1038/s41467-017-00110-9|pmid=28779070 |pmc=5544686 |bibcode=2017NatCo...8..201M }}

In 2020, Duarte led an international team that, on the basis of evidences of responses of marine populations and habitats to the release of pressures, concluded that rebuilding the abundance of marine life by 2050 is an achievable Grand Challenge, and provided a road map to deliver this goal.{{cite journal |last1= C.M. Duarte |last2= S. Agusti|last3= E. Barbier |last4=G.L. Britten |last5= J.C. Castilla |last6= J.P. Gattuso |last7=R.W. Fulweiler |last8= T.P. Hughes |last9= N. Knowlton |last10= C.E. Lovelock |last11= H.K. Lotze |last12= M. Predragovic |last13= E. Poloczanska |last14= C. Roberts |last15= B. Worm |date= 2020 |title=Rebuilding Marine Life |journal=Nature |volume=580 |issue= 7801|pages=39–6 |doi= 10.1038/s41586-020-2146-7| pmid=32238939|bibcode= 2020Natur.580...39D|s2cid= 214736503|url= https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02502619/file/MergedFinalFile.pdf}}

• 2025, Japan Prize in the field of "Biological Production, Ecology/Environment".[https://www.japanprize.jp/en/press_releases20250122.html Japan Prize 2025]
• 2021, Appointed Academic with Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences{{cite web | title= Official letter_Duarte appointed Academic with Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences|url= https://rsrc.kaust.edu.sa/docs/default-source/default-document-library/nombrac_cduarte.pdf?sfvrsn=c002df69_2}}
• 2019, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in the area of Ecology and Conservation Biology{{cite web | title= BBVA Foundation "Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2019"|url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonados/carlos-duarte-2/}}
• 2019, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in the area of Ecology and Conservation Biology{{cite web | title= BBVA Foundation "Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2019"|date=4 February 2020 |url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the-bbva-foundation-recognizes-ecologists-duarte-hughes-and-pauly-for-their-fundamental-contributions-to-our-understanding-of-marine-ecosystems-and-the-challenges-facing-their-conservation/}}
• 2019, Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology{{cite web | title=Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology|url=http://presidencia.gencat.cat/en/ambits_d_actuacio/premis/detalls/Carlos-M.-Duarte-guardonat-amb-el-Premi-Ramon-Margalef-dEcologia-2019}}
• 2018, Appointed to the Global Advisory Board of “The Red Sea Project”{{cite web | title=CIC Org |work=CIC - Saudi Arabia |date=17 September 2018 |url=https://cic.org.sa/2018/09/the-red-sea-development-company-announces-global-advisory-board/ |access-date=September 17, 2018}} of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
• 2018, Elected Fellow to the European Academy of Science and Technology{{cite web |title=List of the members (Fellows and Honorary members) of the European Academy of Sciences|url= http://www.eurasc.org/members/members.asp?Cognome=d}}
• 2018, The Carlo Heip International Award for outstanding accomplishments in marine biodiversity science (World Marine Biodiversity Conference, Montreal){{cite web |title=Carlo Heip award |url= http://www.wcmb2018.org/carlo-heip-award.html |access-date=January 29, 2018}}
• 2016, Elected Sustaining Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography{{cite web |title=ASLO fellows |url= https://aslo.org/page/aslo-fellows |access-date=May 17, 2016}}
• 2016, Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal for Excellence in Biogeosciences{{cite web |title=Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |url= https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/vladimir-ivanovich-vernadsky/2016/carlos-m-duarte/|access-date= February 16, 2016}}
• 2011, Honorari Doctorate from Utrecht University, The Netherlands{{cite web |title= Honorari Doctorate, Utrecht University |url=https://www.uu.nl/en/node/4699/archive-honorary-doctorates}}
• 2011, Prix d’Excellence of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea{{cite web |title= Prix d'Excellence of the International Council|url= http://www.ices.dk/community/awards/Pages/Previous-Award-recipients.aspx|access-date= February 20, 2015}}
• 2010, Honorari Doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canadá{{cite web |title=Annual report 2010-2011, Université du Québec à Montréal |url= https://www.uquebec.ca/reseau/fr/system/files/documents/rapports_annuels/rapport_2010-2011.pdf|access-date= January 20, 2012}}
• 2009, King James I Award on Environmental Research{{cite web|title= List of Environmental Protection Award Winners, King James I Award|url= http://www.fprj.es/es/historico-premiados-proteccion-del-medio-ambiente/|access-date= 2018-12-03|archive-date= 2019-01-20|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190120144444/http://www.fprj.es/es/historico-premiados-proteccion-del-medio-ambiente/|url-status= dead}}
• 2007, Spanish National Science Award in Natural ResourcesPremio Nacional de Investigación Alejandro Malaspina{{Circular reference|date=February 2020}}
• 2001, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography{{cite web |title= G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award|url= https://aslo.org/page/g-evelyn-hutchinson-award}}

Top 10 most cited papers of > 900 published papers:

• {{cite journal |last= C.M. Duarte |date=1991 |title=Seagrass depth limits |journal=Aquatic Botany |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=363–377 |doi=10.1016/0304-3770(91)90081-F|bibcode=1991AqBot..40..363D }}
• {{cite journal |last= C.M. Duarte |date=1995 |title=Submerged aquatic vegetation in relation to different nutrient regimes |journal=Ophelia |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=87–112 |doi=10.1080/00785236.1995.10422039}}
• {{cite book |last1=M.A. Hemminga |last2=C.M. Duarte |date=2000 |title= Seagrass Ecology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uet0dSgzhrsC&q=Hemminga,+M.A.+and+Duarte,+C.M.,+2000.+Seagrass+ecology.+Cambridge+University+Press.&pg=PP1 |page=298|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521661843 }}
• {{cite journal |last= C.M. Duarte |date=2002 |title=The future of seagrass meadows |journal=Environmental Conservation |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=192–206 |doi=10.1017/S0376892902000127|bibcode=2002EnvCo..29..192D |hdl=10261/89840 |s2cid=31971900 |hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=J.A. Downing |last2=Y.T. Prairie |last3=J.J. Cole |last4=C.M. Duarte |last5=L.J. Tranvik |last6=R.G. Striegl |last7=W.H. McDowell |last8=P. Kortelainen |last9=N.F. Caraco |last10=J.M. Melack |last11=J.J. Middelburg |date=2006 |title=The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |volume=51 |issue=5 |pages=2388–2397 |doi=10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2388|bibcode=2006LimOc..51.2388D |doi-access= }}
• {{cite journal |last1=R.J. Orth |last2=T.J. Carruthers |last3=W.C. Dennison |last4=C.M. Duarte |last5=J.W. Fourqurean |last6=K.L. Heck |last7=A.R. Hughes |last8=G.A. Kendrick |last9=W.J. Kenworthy |last10=S. Olyarnik |last11=F.T. Short |date=2006 |title=A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems |journal=BioScience |volume=56 |issue=12 |pages=987–996 |doi=10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[987:AGCFSE]2.0.CO;2|hdl=10261/88476 |s2cid=4936412 |hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1= J.J. Cole |last2= Y.T. Prairie |last3= N.F. Caraco |last4= W.H. McDowell |last5=L.J. Tranvik |last6=R.G. Striegl |last7= C.M. Duarte |last8=P. Kortelainen |last9=J.A. Downing |last10=J.J. Middelburg |last11=J. Melack |date=2007 |title=Plumbing the global carbon cycle: integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget |journal=Ecosystems |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=172–185 |doi=10.1007/s10021-006-9013-8|bibcode= 2007Ecosy..10..172C |citeseerx= 10.1.1.177.3527 |s2cid= 1728636 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=M. Waycott |last2=C.M. Duarte |last3=T.J. Carruthers |last4=R.J. Orth |last5=W.C. Dennison |last6=S. Olyarnik |last7= A. Calladine |last8=J.W. Fourqurean |last9=K.L. Heck |last10=A.R. Hughes |last11=G.A. Kendrick |date=2009 |title=Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=106 |issue=30 |pages=12377–12381 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0905620106|pmid=19587236 |pmc=2707273 |bibcode=2009PNAS..10612377W |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=E. Mcleod |last2=G.L. Chmura |last3=S. Bouillon |last4=R. Salm |last5=M. Björk |last6=C.M. Duarte |last7=C.E. Lovelock |last8=W.H. Schlesinger |last9=B.R. Silliman |date=2011 |title=A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2 |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |volume=9 |issue=10 |pages=552–560 |doi=10.1890/110004|url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:251863/UQ251863_OA.pdf |doi-access=free |bibcode=2011FrEE....9..552M }}
• {{cite journal |last1=K.J. Kroeker |last2=R.L. Kordas |last3=R. Crim |last4=I.E. Hendriks |last5=L. Ramajo |last6=G.S. Singh |last7=C.M. Duarte |last8=J.P. Gattuso |date=2013 |title=Impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms: quantifying sensitivities and interaction with warming |journal=Global Change Biology |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=1884–1896 |doi=10.1111/gcb.12179|pmid=23505245 |pmc=3664023 |bibcode=2013GCBio..19.1884K }}

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