Enrique Montes is an Associate Scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies of the University of Miami working with the Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). He studies physical and biological controls of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycling in the ocean, and how these cycles in turn drive marine ecosystems across time and space. His research combines multiple techniques that merge in situ measurement of environmental properties, and bio-optical, biogeochemical, and taxonomic observations collected from ships with satellite records to decipher the oceanographic context of local measurements and resolve biogeographic patterns and species distributions. In the USA, he is co-leading the development of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) co-sponsored by several agencies including NASA, NOAA, and BOEM. Montes is the Principal Investigator of the MBON Pole-to-Pole of the Americas, a NASA-funded collaborative effort aimed at implementing a framework for detecting and understanding biodiversity change across marine habitats of the Americas, from the Arctic to Antarctica. Montes is an Executive Committee member of the International Association for Biological Oceanography (IABO) and the World Association of Marine Stations (WAMS).