MERCEDES SANTOS- INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO
Biologist. Researcher at the Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA) and PhD student. She went to Antarctica for the first time in 2002 and participated in eight expeditions. Since 2011, she is one of the directors of the “Ecosystem Monitoring Program” from the IAA. Main interests: population dynamics of pygoscelid penguins and skuas. The foraging and trophic ecology of South Polar Skuas is the focus of her doctoral thesis.