Helga Gomes

{{Short description|Biological oceanographer}}

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| birth_name = Helga Do Rosario Gomes

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| fields = Oceanography

| workplaces = Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory

| alma_mater = University of Mumbai

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| website = {{URL|https://helgagomes.com/}}

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Helga Do Rosario Gomes is a biological oceanographer at the Goes-Gomes Lab at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, USA.{{cite web|title=Helga Gomes|url=https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/helga/|work=Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory}}

Gomes' research focuses on human activities in coastal megacities, the changing biodiversity of the Arabian Sea, and the repercussions for the food chain.{{cite news|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5862| title=Massive outbreaks of Noctiluca scintillans blooms in the Arabian Sea due to spread of hypoxia|publisher=Nature.com|date=September 9, 2014}}

Gomes, from the region of Goa along the Indian west coast, was earlier part of the National Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula.