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Here are some talks, videos, podcasts, publications, and other forms through which my conversations in arts and science practices have unfolded. There is nothing more enriching than thinking in conversation.

Some Interviews, blogs and podcast

Blog FHL Artist-in-Residence
Podcast Interview (2022)
Interview in Nature Careers 2021
Blog Artist-at-Sea Residency (2018)
Revista "Endémico" (2018)

Some talks & artistic actions

Academic papers, book chapters, policy briefs & manuals

Academic Papers

Mons, S., Oyarzun, F. X., Martínez, C., Tremblay, G. G., Gelcich, S., Farías, L., Romero, P., Manríquez, V., Sepúlveda, C., Bonet, M., Guerrero, N. F., Inzunza, S., & Farías, A. (2025). Positioning blue justice at local scales: Insights for transdisciplinarity through art-science integration. Ecology and Society, 30(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15852-300135

Oyarzo-Miranda, C., Otaiza, R., Bellorí, A., Vega, J. M., Tala, F., Lagos, N., Oyarzun, F. X., Estévez, R., Latorre-Padilla, N., Mora, A. M., Figueroa, L., Jara-Yañez, R., Bulboa, C., & Contreras-Porcia, L. (2023). Seaweed restocking along the Chilean coast: History, present, and inspiring recommendations for sustainability. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1062481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1062481

Tremblay, G., Brice, J., Oyarzun, F. X., Pohl, N., & Gallardo, B. (2022). Ecologies of interdisciplinary research & practice in art + science and technology. Vibrant Ecologies of Research, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.3898/27526119

Canales-Aguirre, C., Ritchie, P. A., Hernández, S., Herrera-Yañez, V., Ferrada, S., Oyarzun, F. X., Hernández, C. E., Galleguillos, R., & Arratia, G. (2021). Phylogenetic relationships, origin and historical biogeography of the genus Sprattus (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae). PeerJ, 9, e11737. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11737

Latorre-Padilla, N., Meynard, A., Oyarzun, F. X., & Contreras-Porcia, L. (2021). Ingestion of contaminated kelps by the herbivore Tetrapygus niger: Negative effects on food intake, growth, fertility, and early development. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 167, 112365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112365

Moreano-Arrobo, L., Pérez, O. D., Brown, F. D., Oyarzun, F. X., & Canales-Aguirre, C. B. (2021). Mexican dancer in Ecuador: Molecular confirmation, embryology, and evidence of planktotrophy in the sea slug Elysia diomedea. International Journal of Developmental Biology 65: 323 – 332. https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.200157fo

Doherty-Weason, D., Oyarzun, F. X., Vera, L., Bascur, M., Guzmán, F., Silva, F., Urzúa, A., & Brante, A. (2020). Bioenergetics of parental investment in two polychaete species with contrasting reproductive strategies: The planktotrophic Boccardia chilensis and the poecilogonic Boccardia wellingtonensis (Spionidae). Marine Ecology, 41(4), e12574. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12574

Figueroa, A., Brante, A., Cárdenas, L., Caicedo, M., Oyarzun, F. X., & Doherty-Weason, D. (2019). Characterization of the expression of microRNAs in the poecilogonous polychaete Boccardia wellingtonensis. Marine Genomics, 46, 100736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2019.100736

Strathmann, R. R., Brante, A., & Oyarzun, F. X. (2019). Contrasting metatrochal behavior of mollusk and annelid larvae and the regulation of feeding while swimming. Biological Bulletin, 236(2), 130–143. https://doi.org/10.1086/703076

Doherty-Weason, D., Oyarzun, F. X., Vera, L., Bascur, M., Guzmán, F., Silva, F., Urrutia, A., & Brante, A. (2019). Larval feeding morphology and digestive enzyme activity of the polychaete Boccardia wellingtonensis: Determining factors of marine larval development modes. PeerJ, 7, e6151. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6151

Canales-Aguirre, C., Ferrada-Fuentes, S., Galleguillos, R., Oyarzun, F. X., & Hernández, C. E. (2018). Population genetic structure of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic Ocean. PeerJ, 6, e4173. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4173

Canales-Aguirre, C., Ferrada-Fuentes, S., Galleguillos, R., Oyarzun, F. X., Buratti, C., & Hernández, C. E. (2018). High genetic diversity and low population differentiation in the Patagonian sprat (Sprattus fuegensis) based on mitochondrial DNA. PeerJ, 6, e4173. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4173

Vargas, H. A., Oyarzun, F. X., & Parra, L. E. (2017). Egg and first instar of the Neotropical geometrid moth Pero obtusaria Prout (Geometridae: Ennominae: Azelinini). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 71(1), 50–56.

Oyarzun, F. X., & Brante, A. (2015). A new case of poecilogony from South America and the implications of nurse eggs, capsule structure and maternal brooding behavior on the development of different larval types. Biological Bulletin, 228(2), 85–97. https://doi.org/10.1086/BBLv228n2p85

Oyarzun, F. X., & Brante, A. (2014). The effects of nurse eggs and sibling interactions on the larval development of the poecilogonous annelid Boccardia proboscidea (Spionidae). Invertebrate Biology, 133(4), 340–353. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12065

Oyarzun, F. X., Swalla, B. J., Mahon, A. R., & Halanych, K. M. (2011). Phylogeography and maternal effects of the poecilogonous polychaete Boccardia proboscidea (Annelida: Spionidae) along the West Coast of North America. Evolution & Development, 13(6), 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00506.x

Oyarzun, F. X., & Strathmann, R. R. (2011). Plasticity of hatching and the duration of planktonic development in marine invertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51(1), 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr009

Oyarzun, F. X. (2010). Brooding mothers, sibling rivals, and population structure in Boccardia proboscidea, a polychaete with alternative reproductive modes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Washington.

Kamel, K., Oyarzun, F. X., & Grosberg, R. (2010). Reproductive biology, family conflict, and size of offspring in marine invertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 50(4), 619–629. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icq104

Simon, C., Thornhill, D. J., Oyarzun, F. X., & Halanych, K. M. (2009). Genetic similarity between Boccardia proboscidea from Western North America and cultured abalone, Haliotis midae, in South Africa. Aquaculture, 294(1–2), 18–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2009.05.022

Griffiths, J., Dethier, M., Newsome, A., Byers, J. E., Meyer, J. J., Oyarzun, F., & Lenihan, H. (2006). Invertebrate community responses to clam digging. Marine Biology, 149(6), 1489–1497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-006-0302-4

Book chapters

Oyarzún, F. X. (en prensa). Cultivo de imaginarios ecológicos: La ilustración científica contemporánea en Chile. En M. Errázuriz, N. Pohl, & C. Valdés (Eds.), Recolecta. Artes para la naturaleza. Fundación Mar Adentro.

Sáez Gutiérrez, N., Oyarzún Dunlop, F., & Camaño Saavedra, M. (en prensa). Bienal Concepción: Reflexiones y principios de un entorno co-creativo para artistas, científicos/as y la comunidad educativa de Caleta del Medio, Coliumo. En N. Carrasco Henríquez, P. Fuentealba, & N. de Cortillas (Eds.), Habilitantes para el diálogo intercientífico. Universidad de Concepción.

Oyarzun, F. (2006). Crepidula fornicata and Hydrilla verticillata. En P. D. Boersma, S. H. Reichard, & A. N. Van Buren (Eds.), Invasive species in the Pacific Northwest (pp. 141–142). University of Washington Press.

Policy Briefs & Manuals

Contreras-Porcia, L., Broitman, B., Meynard, A., Pinilla-Rojas, B., Bulboa, C., Tala, F., Otaíza, R., Pedrini, C., Rosson, A., Núñez, M., Vera-Duarte, J., Véliz, G., Oyarzún, F. X., González, D., Lagos, N., Mora, A. M., & Segovia, N. I. (2025). Manual de buenas prácticas para el repoblamiento de algas pardas (72 pp.). Universidad de Santiago de Chile. ISBN 978-956-7247-97-4

Oyarzún, F., Pinochet, C., Valdés, C., Pohl, N., & Merchant, P. (2022). Fomentando colaboraciones arte-ciencia para enfrentar desafíos ambientales. Policy Brief. Policy Bristol, University of Bristol. (link)

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