Gabriel Navarro. He received the Marine Science degree in 1999 (1st College Award) and the PhD in Oceanography in 2004 from the University of Cádiz. During the development of his Ph. D. Thesis he acquired a broad experience in performing oceanographic field studies, applying simultaneously remote sensing to geophysical research in the Gulf of Cadiz (SW Spain). Between 2005-2012, he works as a Research Assistant with a permanent position in the Department of Ecology and Coastal Management at the ICMAN-CSIC, being in charge of the Remote Sensing Service, that constitutes the first Ocean Colour Service at the CSIC and it is aimed at providing fully processed images to the Spanish oceanography community. Since 2012, Dr. Navarro works as a Tenured Research at the ICMAN-CSIC. He has been the PI of grants supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Regional Government of Andalusia. Among others, he has been responsible of the projects "Study of turbidity events at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river by remote sensing and its connection to meteorological and oceanographic processes" that generated algorithms for the remote detection of turbidity episodes in the estuary. He has also developed satellites services to quantify the aquatic coverage of the Doñana region and to detect phytoplankton functional groups in the Mediterranean Sea. This latest algorithm, the so-called PHYSAT- Med is being used by the scientific community to characterize the spatio-temporal variability of natural phytoplankton assemblages in the Mediterranean basin. At present, Dr. Navarro is also de PI of the national grant "Development of algorithms for the remote detection of phytoplankton functional groups and their relationship with the physical framework in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea (CTM2014-58181/MAR). In addition, Dr. Navarro late interests have also comprised the study of carbon cycle in coastal transition systems, such as the large Guadalquivir estuary or the massive Doñana wetlands. Identification of the trophic status of the estuary and the quantification of carbon export to the Gulf of Cadiz were addressed through the multidisciplinary research contract "Methodological approach to diagnose and forecast the consequences of anthropogenic actions on the Guadalquivir estuary, funded by the regional government (Junta de Andalucía). This grant gathered 11 research teams from various universities and CSIC centers and the derived results have been used as the scientific basis to support decision-making on river dredging. Dr. Navarro was responsible of the real-time remote monitoring network (RTRM) to characterize the Guadalquivir estuary ecosystem, being author of two patents (PCT/ES2012/070432, P201230916). Actually, DR. Navarro is the leader of two work package in two European Projects from.