CESAM researchers, Ana Hilário and Sofia Ramalho, are members of a team of scientists on an Arctic expedition

An international and multidisciplinary team of 36 scientists and engineers, with the assistance of the officers and crew of the vessel, will conduct the first full-scale multidisciplinary investigation of deep (4000 m) hydrothermal vents under permanent ice cover in the Arctic, investigating the Aurora vent field (82.5°N) in the Gakkel Ridge.

HACON - HOT VENTS IN AN ICE-COVERED OCEAN will unravel the geochemical and physical processes that shape the Aurora biological communities and assess the role played by the Gakkel Ridge in connectivity of chemosynthesis-based ecosystems between ocean basins. The project will provide empirical robust data of a pristine system prior to expected climate-change variations and increased human activities in the Arctic region.

CESAM PhD student wins National Geographic Society scholarship

Priscilla Campos was awarded a $7,000 grant from the National Geographic Society to study the ecological imbalance in Brazilian corals, involving the fishing community of Bahia in the recovery of local biodiversity.

The work of Priscilla Campos for the National Geographic “was to collect these corals in Brazil and transport them to be studied at the Aveiro Academy to try to find out the cause of this ecological imbalance”.

Learn more about Priscilla's work here.

Fátima Lopes Alves, CESAM researcher, is member of the Marine Spatial Planning Global Expert Group

The MSPglobal Expert Group is made up of eight established and recognized individuals of high scientific standing in one or more key areas relevant to MSP and Sustainable Blue Economy, from all regions of the world. It will define and contribute to the contents of the International MSP Guidelines based on inputs from the pilot projects in the West Mediterranean and Southeast Pacific, as well as review and compile existing and emerging cross-border and transboundary MSP initiatives.The Expert Group will hold its first meeting in Riga (Latvia) on 22-23 November 2019, immediately after the 4th edition of the MSPforum in which the members will also take part.

An online environmental toxicology book was published with the collaboration of a CESAM Professor as a reviewer

This open online textbook on Environmental Toxicology aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and risk assessment. With that, it will contribute to improving the quality, continuity and transparency of the education in environmental toxicology. This book also want to make sure that fundamental insights on fate and effects of chemicals gained in the past are combined with recent approaches of effect assessment and molecular analysis of mechanisms causing toxicity. The book contains tools for self-study and training, like a (limited) number of questions at the end of each module. To guarantee quality of the book, each module was reviewed by at least one of the members of the project team but also by an international reviewer from outside the project team. An advisory board and a steering committee were involved in supervising the project, as well as educational advisors, while the project team served as an editorial board. Susana Loureiro, CESAM Professor, is one the reviewers of this book.

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