Publicaciones, ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6542-9348

• Aravena-Yáñez, V., Garcés-Vargas, J., Benavides-Martínez, I.F., 2025. Freshwater plume’s impact on the thermohaline structure of the water column in the Central Zone of the Strait of Magellan. Regional Studies in Marine Science 83, 104087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2025.104087
• Villalobos, V.I., Morales-Torres, D.F., Valdivia, N., Rivera-Hechem, M.I., Giesecke, R., Piñones, A., Mardones, J.I., Garcés-Vargas, J., Segura, C.J., Navarro, J.M., Outeiro, L., 2025. Responses of mussel farms to Harmful Algal Bloom governance are shaped by the scale of production: implications for equitable blue economy. Harmful Algae 102821.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2025.102821
• Bruning, M.J., Véliz, D., Rojas-Hernández, N., Garcés-Vargas, J., Garrido, I., Cid, M.J., Paschke, K., Pardo, L.M., 2024. The timing of marine heatwaves during the moulting cycle affects performance of decapod larvae. Sci Rep 14, 29800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81258-5
• Soto, D.F., Muñoz, C., Huovinen, P., Garcés‐Vargas, J., Gómez, I., 2024. Bacterial communities on giant kelp in the Magellan Strait: Geographical and intra‐thallus patterns. Environmental Microbiology 26, e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70003
• ​​​​​​​Piñones, A., Aziares‐Aguayo, N., Amador‐Véliz, P., Mercado‐Peña, O., González‐Reyes, A., Valdivia, N., Garcés‐Vargas, J., Garrido, I., Pardo, L.M., Höfer, J., 2024. Local and Remote Atmosphere‐Ocean Coupling During Extreme Warming Events Impacting Subsurface Ocean Temperature in an Antarctic Embayment. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 129, e2023JC020735. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020735
• Benavides, I.F., Garcés-Vargas, J., Selvaraj, J.J., 2024. Potential negative impacts of climate change outweigh opportunities for the Colombian Pacific Ocean Shrimp Fishery. Scientific Reports 14, 21903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71029-7
• Marcus, L., Mardones, J., Toledo J., Pinochet, J., Montes, C., Corredor-Acosta, A., Moreno-Meynard, P., Garcés-Vargas, J., Jorquera, E., Iriarte, J., Urbina, M. 2024. Evidence of plastic pollution from offshore oceanic sources in southern Chilean Patagonian fjords. Science of The Total Environment, 911 (168706). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168706.
• Valdivia, N., Garcés-Vargas, J., Garrido, I., Gómez, I., Huovinen, P., Navarro, N. P., Macaya, E., Pardo, L. M. (2021). Beta Diversity of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Benthic Communities Reveals a Major Role of Stochastic Assembly Processes. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(1816). https://doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.780268
• Giesecke, R., Martín, J., Piñones, A., Höfer, J., Garcés-Vargas, J., Flores-Melo, X., Alarcón E, Durrieu de Madron X, Bourrin F. & González, H. E. 2021. General Hydrography of the Beagle Channel, a Subantarctic Interoceanic Passage at the Southern Tip of South America. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(1284). https://doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.621822 
• Castro, L. R., González, H. E., Garcés-Vargas, J., & Barrientos, P. 2021. Separate Feeding Between the Pelagic Stage of the Squat Lobster Munida gregaria and the Larger Sized Zooplankton Crustacean Groups in the Beagle Channel as Revealed by Stable Isotopes. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8(657). doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.635190 
• Garcés-Vargas J, Schneider W, Pinochet A, Piñones A, Olguin F, Brieva D, & Wan Y. 2020. Tidally Forced Saltwater Intrusions might Impact the Quality of Drinking Water, the Valdivia River (40° S), Chile Estuary Case. Water, 12(9): 2387. https://doi: 10.3390/w12092387
• Pinochet, A., Garcés-Vargas, J., Lara, C. & Olguín, F. 2019. Seasonal Variability of Upwelling off Central-Southern Chile. Remote Sensing, 11(15): 1737. https://doi:10.3390/rs11151737
• Oyarzún, P.A., Toro, J.E., Garcés-Vargas, J., Alvarado, C., Guiñez, R., Jaramillo, R., Briones, C. & Campos, B., 2018. Reproductive patterns of mussel Perumytilus purpuratus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), along the Chilean coast: effects caused by climate change? Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom: 1-11.
• Aracena, C., González, H.E., Garcés-Vargas, J., Lange, C.B., Pantoja, S., Muñoz, F., Teca, E. & Tejos, E. 2018. Influence of summer conditions on surface water properties and phytoplankton productivity in embayments of the South Shetland Islands. Polar Biol: https://doi: 10.1007/s00300-018-2338-x.
• Bedriñana-Romano, L., Hucke-Gaete, R., Viddi, F.A., Morales, J., Williams, R., Asche, E., Garcés-Vargas, J., Torres-Florez, J.P. & Ruiz, J. 2018. Integrating multiple data sources for assessing blue whale abundance and distribution in Chilean Northern Patagonia. Diversity and Distributions: https://doi: 10.1111/ddi.12739.
• Hernandez-Vaca, F., Schneider, W. & Garces-Vargas, J. 2017. Contribution of Ekman pumping to the changes in properties and volume of the Eastern South Pacific Intermediate Water. Gayana, 81(2): 52-63.
• Schneider, W., Donoso, D., Garcés-Vargas, J. & Escribano, R., 2017. Water-column cooling and sea surface salinity increase in the upwelling region off central-south Chile driven by a poleward displacement of the South Pacific High. Progress in Oceanography, 151: 38-48.
• Ancapichún, S. & Garcés-Vargas, J., 2015. Variability of the Southeast Pacific Subtropical Anticyclone and its impact on sea surface temperature off north-central Chile. Ciencias Marinas, 41(1): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7773/cm.v41i1.2338
• Pérez-Santos, I., Garcés-Vargas, J., Schneider, W., Ross, L., Parra, S. & Valle-Levinson, A. 2014. Double-diffusive layering and mixing in Patagonian fjords. Progress in Oceanography. 129: 35-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2014.03.012
• Giesecke, R., Clement, A., Garcés-Vargas, J., Mardones, J., González, H., Caputo, L. & Castro, L. 2014. Massive salp outbreaks in the inner sea of Chiloé Island (Southern Chile): possible causes and ecological consequences. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 42(3): 604-621. http://dx.doi.org/103856/vol42-issue3-fulltext-18
• Pérez-Santos, I., Schneider, W., Valle-Levinson, A., Garcés-Vargas, J., Soto, I., Montoya-Sánchez, R., Melo, N. & Müller-Karger, F. 2014. Chlorophyll-a patterns and mixing processes in the Yucatan Basin, Caribbean Sea. Ciencias Marinas. 40(1): 11−31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7773/cm.v40i1.2320
• Garcés-Vargas J., Ruiz, M., Pardo L. M., Nuñez S.,  Pérez-Santos, I. 2013. Hydrographic features of Valdivia river estuary south-central Chile. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 41(1): 113-125. http://dx.doi.org/103856/vol41-issue1-fulltext-9
• Pérez-Santos, I., Garcés-Vargas, J.,  Schneider, W., Parra, S., Ross L., & Valle-Levinson, A. 2013.  Double diffusion from microstructure measurements in the Martinez and Baker channels, central Chilean Patagonia (47.85ºS). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 41(1): 177-182. http://dx.doi.org/103856/vol41-issue1-fulltext-16
• Garcés-Vargas J. & Abarca-del-Río, R. 2012. The surface heat flux along the eastern Pacific coast from 10ºN to 40ºS. Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal. 62: 71-82.
• Sobarzo M, Garcés-Vargas J., Bravo L., Tassara A., Quiñones R. 2012. Observing sea level and current anomalies driven by a megathrust slope-shelf tsunami: the event on February 27, 2010 in central Chile, Continental Shelf Research. 49: 44-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2012.09.001
• Pardo, L. M., Mora, P., Garcés-Vargas, J.  2012. Asentamiento diario de megalopas de jaibas del género Cancer en un estuario micromareal.  Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 40(1): 142-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol40-issue1-fulltext-14
• Pardo, L. M., Cardyn, S. Garcés-Vargas, J., 2012. Spatial variation in physical controls of crab larval settlement at an austral estuary. Helgoland Marine Research. 66(3): 253-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10152-011-0267-y
• Pérez-Santos, I., Sobarzo, M.,  Schneider, W., Montoya-Sánchez, R. Valle-Levinson, A.,  Garcés-Vargas, J. 2010. Surface wind variability and its implications for the Yucatan basin-Caribbean sea dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115 (C10052): doi:10.1029/2010JC006292.
• Placencia, J., Garcés-Vargas, J., Lange, C., & Hebbeln, D. 2010. Alkenone-based temperature patterns along the eastern South Pacific Coastal Ocean: the effect of upwelling and advection on the sedimentary alkenone unsaturation-index (). Biogeosciences Discuss. 7(1): 545-564.
• Fuenzalida, R., Schneider, W., Garcés-Vargas, J., Bravo, L. & Lange, C. 2009. Vertical and horizontal extension of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II. 56(16): 1027-1038.
• Fuenzalida, R., Schneider, W., Garcés-Vargas, J. & Bravo, L. (2008). Satellite altimetry data reveal jet-like dynamics of the Humboldt Current. Journal of Geophysical Reserach. 113 (C07043): doi:10.1029/2007JC004684
• Schneider, W., Fukasawa, M., Garcés-Vargas, J., Bravo, L. & Fuenzalida, R. (2007). Spin-up of South Pacific subtropical gyre freshens and cools the upper layer of the eastern South Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(L24606): doi:10.1029/2007GL031933.
• Sobarzo, M., Bravo, L., Donoso, J., Garcés-Vargas, J. & Schneider, W. (2007). Coastal upwelling and seasonal cycles that influence on the water column on the continental shelf off Central Chile. Progress in Oceanography 75: 470-485
• Garcés-Vargas, J., Schneider, W., Abarca del Río, R., Martínez, R. & Zambrano, E. (2005). Inter-annual variability in the thermal structure of an oceanic time series station off Ecuador (1990-2003) associated with El Niño events. Deep-Sea Research Part I. 52(10): 1789-1805.
• Valle-Levinson, A., Schneider, W., Sobarzo, M., Bello, M., Bravo, L., Castillo, M., Duarte, L., Fuenzalida, R., Gallegos, J.M., Garcés-Vargas, J. et. al. (2004). Wind-induced exchange at the entrance to Concepción Bay, an equatorward facing embayment in central Chile. Deep Sea Research Part II. 51(20-21): 2371-2388.
• Schneider, W., Fuenzalida, R., Rodríguez-Rubio, E., Garcés-Vargas, J. & Bravo, L. (2003). Characteristics and formation of eastern South Pacific intermediate water. Geophysical Research Letters 30(11): doi:10.1029/2003GL017086.

Otras publicaciones

• Garcés-Vargas J., Navarro A., Garrido I., Giesecke R., Blanco G. & Libuy M. (2024). Ojo de Pez: Un viaje por los ecosistemas acuáticos de Chile. Valdivia-Punta Arenas, Chile. 190 pp. (pdf)
• Garcés-Vargas, J. 2024. La Patagonia marina chilena: Un mosaico natural en los confines del mundo. En I. Gómez (Editor), Bosques Submarinos de la Patagonia, pp. 13-25. (pdf)
• Garcés-Vargas, J., Piñones, A. & Castillo M. 2022. La Corriente Circumpolar Antártica. En T. Rivera (Editor), Una nueva australidad para Chile: Perspectivas, miradas y valoraciones. Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago de Chile, pp. 13-28. https://doi.org/10.32457/UA.139. (pdf)
• Firmani C., Garcés-Vargas J., Palma L., Reyes-Arriagada R., Schories D. (2020). Ojo de Pez. Chile en imágenes de agua y vida. Valdivia, Chile. 156 pp. (pdf)
• Garcés-Vargas, J. Schories D., Mora G., Mella E., Mardones, D. 2012. Invertebrados y Peces Marinos de la Región de Los Ríos: Una Guía para Personas con Discapacidad Auditiva. Ediciones Universidad Austral de Chile. DigitalCopy, Valdivia, 112 pp. (pdf)
• Schneider, W., Fuenzalida, R. & Garcés, J., 2004. Corrientes marinas y masas de agua. En: C. Werlinger (Editor), Biología Marina y Oceanografía: Conceptos y Procesos. Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura. Universidad de Concepción. Trama Impresores S.A., Concepción, pp. 179-194.