As a Master’s student at the University of Las Palmas I led the first taxonomic studies of ichthyoplankton in the island of El Hierro, Canaries. Soon after I enrolled into a PhD program at the University of La Laguna studying the foraging ecology and habitat selection by Blainville's beaked whales. From an integrative perspective, I used these results for the scientific design of a marine protected area for cetaceans in the Canary Islands.

Arranz Alonso, P, DeRuiter, SL, Stimpert, AK, Neves, S, Friedlaender, AS, Goldbogen, JA, Visser, F, Calambokidis, J, Southall, BL & Tyack, PL 2016, 'Discrimination of fast click series produced by tagged Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus) for echolocation or communication' Journal of Experimental Biology, vol 219, no. 18, pp. 2898-2907. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.144295