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Mariana Silva completed a PhD in Marine Sciences in December 2025 at the Univeristy of Azores - Institute of Marine Sciences (Okeanos), following an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) in 2017 (Ghent University) and a BSc in Biology in 2015 (University of Algarve). Her research focuses on bioenergetic and ecological modelling of marine megafauna particularly deep-diving cetaceans, integrating biologging data, prey characteristics and physiological proxies to assess energy balance, vulnerability and population-level consequences of environmental and anthropogenic stressors. She has published peer-reviewed articles, contributed to technical reports and monitoring manuals and presented her work at national and international conferences and workshops. She has participated in national and EU-funded projects, including roles as PhD fellow and senior research technician collaborating within multidisciplinary and international research networks.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Mariana Silva

Nomes de citação

  • M. F. P., Silva
  • Silva, M. P.
  • Silva, Mariana

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
581B-32FA-32F6
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2159-092X

Moradas

  • Rua Prof Dr Frederico Machado, 4, 9901-862, Horta, Faial, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Ecologia

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2021/04/01 - 2025/12/05
Concluído
 Marine Sciences (Doutoramento)
Especialização em Marine Ecology
Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal
"Assessing the energetic consequences of disturbance on a marine top predator" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 Apr. Distinção
2015/09 - 2017/08
Concluído
 Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) (Mestrado)
Universiteit Gent, Bélgica
"Social sounds of humpback whales from Southern Africa" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2012/09 - 2015/07
Concluído
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Survival, growth and metabolism of Australoheros facetus kept in different salinities" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento		 Empregador
2019/06 - 2019/08 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Museu da Baleia da Madeira, Portugal
2017/08 - 2018/12 Assistente de Investigação (carreira) (Investigação) School for Field Studies, Estados Unidos
School for Field Studies, Estados Unidos
2014 - 2014 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Zoomarine do Algarve, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Serviço do Parque Natural da Madeira, Portugal

Outras Carreiras

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento		 Empregador
2019/08 - 2021/03 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento		 Empregador
2018 - 2018 Divemaster East Bay Resort, Ilhas Turcas e Caicos
2016/07 - 2016/08 Marine Biologist guide Rota dos Cetáceos, Portugal
2015/07 - 2015/08 Marine Biologist guide Rota dos Cetáceos, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2021/04/01 - 2025/12/05 Assessing the energetic consequences of disturbance on a marine top predator
M3.1.a/F/028/2020
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal
 Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluído
2022 - 2022 Understanding energy-mediated responses of sperm whales to environmental shifts using a bioenergetic modelling approach
2022/0211
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Concluído
2022 - 2022 Understanding energy-mediated responses of sperm whales to environmental shifts using a bioenergetic modelling approach
2022
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Society for Marine Mammalogy, Estados Unidos
 Society for Marine Mammalogy
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência
  1. Baduy, Flavia; Soares, Diogo; Teixeira, Daniela; Silva, M. P.; Soares, Jéssica; Canario, A. V. M.; Saraiva, João L.; Guerreiro, Pedro M. "Dispersion of the invasive Australoheros factus into upper estuaries may be deterred by salinity-related effects on both physiology and behaviour". Trabalho apresentado em VI Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, Murcia, 2016.
  2. Baduy, Flávia ; Soares, Jéssica; Silva, M. P.; Canario, A. V. M.; Saraiva, João L.; Guerreiro, Pedro M. "Critical thermal maximum and minimum in Australoheros facetus, a neo-tropical invader in the Iberian Peninsula". Trabalho apresentado em VI Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, 2016.
  3. Baduy, Flávia ; Soares, Jéssica; Silva, M. P.; Canario, A. V. M.; Saraiva, João L.; Guerreiro, Pedro M. "THERMAL ENDURANCE MECHANISMS IN Australoheros facetus, AN INVASIVE FRESHWATER FISH IN PORTUGAL". Trabalho apresentado em VI Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, Murcia, 2016.
Artigo em revista
  1. Silva, M. P.; Oliveira, Cláudia; Prieto, Rui; Silva, Mónica A.; New, Leslie; Pérez-Jorge, Sergi. "Bioenergetic modelling of a marine top predator's responses to changes in prey structure". Ecology and Evolution 14 3 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11135.
    Publicado • 10.1002/ece3.11135
  2. Gridley, T.; M. F. P., Silva; Wilkinson, C.; Seakamela, S. M.; Elwen, S. H.. "Song recorded near a super-group of humpback whales on a mid-latitude feeding ground off South Africa". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143 4 (2018): EL298-EL304. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5032126.
    10.1121/1.5032126
Artigo em revista (magazine)
  1. Silva, Mariana; Blasco-Monleón, Sandra; Gonçalves, João M.. "Fondos de arena. Una fauna todavia poco conocida. Una monitorización de extracción de arena innovadora", Revista de La Sociedad Atlántica de Oceanógrafos, 2020
Manual
  1. Silva, Mariana; Blasco, Sandra; Gonçalves, João M.. Manual de monitorização da extração de sedimentos móveis subtidais nos Açores. 2020.
Poster em conferência
  1. Mariana P. Silva; Oliveira, Cláudia; Prieto, Rui; Silva, Mónica A.; New, Leslie; Pérez-Jorge, Sergi. "Estimating energy expenditure of sperm whales’ social units". Trabalho apresentado em 36th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2025.
  2. Mariana P. Silva; Gridley, T.; James, B.; Elwen, S.. "Investigating the social sounds from ‘super-groups’ of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from South Africa". Trabalho apresentado em 9th Jagna International Workshop: Stochastic Analysis – Mathematical Methods and Real World Models, 2020.
Relatório
  1. Silva, M. P.. 2025. Case study applying the bioenergetic modelling framework to selected marine megafauna of the Azores.
  2. Silva, M. P.. 2025. Review and synthesis of bioenergetic modelling methodologies for cetaceans in the Azores.
  3. Silva, M. P.. 2025. Bioenergetic modelling framework for cetaceans in the Azores: structure and components.
  4. Silva, M. P.. 2025. Compilation of preliminary database on diet and prey parameters for bioenergetic modelling in the Azores.
  5. Gonçalves, João M; Silva, Mariana; Blasco, Sandra; Simões, Júlia ; Medeiros, Ricardo. 2020. Relatório técnico final das campanhas de monitorização dos fundos marinhos arenosos subtidais dos Açores.
  6. Silva, Mariana; Blasco, Sandra; Gonçalves, João M.. 2020. Guia de identificação de espécies em fundos marinhos arenosos subtidiais nos Açores / Species identification guide on sandy sublittoral bottoms of the Azores.
  7. Gonçalves, João M.; Silva, Mariana; Simões, Júlia ; Medeiros, Ricardo. 2019. Relatório técnico final das campanhas de monitorização dos fundos marinhos arenosos subtidais dos Açores.
Tese / Dissertação
  1. Mariana P. Silva. "Assessing the energetic consequences of disturbance on a marine top predator". Doutoramento, Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, 2025.
  2. "Social sounds of humpback whales from Southern Africa". Mestrado, 2017.
  3. "Survival, growth and metabolism of "Australoheros facetus" kept at different salinities". Licenciatura, Universidade do Algarve, 2015.

Outros

Conjunto de dados
  1. Silva, M. P.; Oliveira, Cláudia; Prieto, Rui; Silva, Mónica A.; New, Leslie; Pérez-Jorge, Sergi. Foraging data to model energy acquisition and requirements of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) to understand energy-mediated responses to changes in prey structure. PANGEA. 2024.
    doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.968456
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2025/05 Predict energetic impacts and responses of a marine top predator (finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition, 3MT) Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
University of Azores (Azores, Portugal)
2024/11 Estimating energy expenditure of sperm whales’ social units 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
The Society of Marine Mammalogy (Perth, Austrália)
2023/09 Bioenergetic modelling of a marine top predator’s responses to changes in prey structure European Conference on Ecological Modelling (ECEM)
(Leipzig, Alemanha)
2023 Bioenergetic modelling of a marine top predator’s responses to changes in prey structure Beyond Whale Watching
University of Azores (Horta, Portugal)
2023 Understanding energy-mediated responses of a marine top predator to prey structure shifts using a bioenergetic modelling approach Jornadas Oceanográficas e Ecológicas - MARCET II
(Horta, Portugal)
2022 Understanding energy-mediated responses of sperm whales to environmental shifts using a bioenergetic modelling approach 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals (SMM)
(Palm Beach, Florida, Estados Unidos)
2020 Extraction of underwater sands in the Azores: need for economy and ecological impacts 27th APDR Congress “Sustainable Managemenet of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Develoment”
Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (Angra do Heroísmo (Terra-Chã), Azores, Portugal)
2019 Understanding the role of acoustic cues in the formation and cohesion of super-groups of humpback whales World Marine Mammal Science Conference (WMMSC)
The Society of Marine Mammalogy (Barcelona, Espanha)
2019 Understanding the role of acoustic cues in the formation and cohesion of super-groups of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) XXVII International Bioacoustics Council Meeting (IBAC)
International Bioacoustics Council (Brighton, Reino Unido)
2019 Understanding the role of acoustic cues in the formation and cohesion of super-groups of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Easter Meeting
The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) (York, Reino Unido)
2017 Social sounds from 'super' groups of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from South Africa XXVI International Bioacoustics Council Meeting (IBAC)
International Bioacoustics Council (Haridwar, Índia)

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento		 Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2026/03/05 - 2026/03/06 REMORA Online Training on European Research Funding Strategy & Proposal Development “Thinking Like a Champion & Horizon Europe Intelligence” delivered by Key Innovations Ltd. Training in Horizon Europe proposal development, covering strategic planning, funding frameworks and methods to design and evaluate competitive proposals.
Outro
 REMORA Online Training Program 2026: Thinking and Acting like a Champion & Horizon Europe Intelligence
2024 - 2024 Participated on the Cachalote Consortium Workshop (2024): Behaviour, ecology and the structure of sperm whale societies -– transforming science into stewardship for ocean nomads
Oficina (workshop)
 25th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Society for Marine Mammalogy, Estados Unidos
2023/01 - 2023/01 Participated on the international workshop "OCEAN Workshop on Marine Mammal Ship Strike Mitigation" (Horta, Azores, Portugal, 2023). Organized in the scope of project “OCEAN - Operator-Centered Enhancement of Awareness in Navigation” (2023/01/24 - 2023/01/26)
Oficina (workshop)
Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal

IMAR - Instituto do Mar, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Participated on the international workshop "Ecological modelling for environmental risk assessment – career pathways" (Leipzig, Germany, 2023)
Oficina (workshop)
 European Conference on Ecological Modelling (ECEM)
2023 - 2023 Participated on the international workshop "Computational notebooks for open, reproducible, and productive research" (Leipzig, Germany, 2023)
Oficina (workshop)
 European Conference on Ecological Modelling (ECEM)
2022/11 - 2022/11 Visual Communication for Scientists (short course): training focused on visual communication principles for scientific contexts including the design of clear and effective figures and presentations. The course involved hands-on work using image-editing software (e.g. GIMP/Photoshop) and presentation tools (PowerPoint), with emphasis on visual clarity, data storytelling and science communication.
Outro
 Visual Communication for Scientists (short course)
Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2025/07/15 - Atual Ecological Modelling (1872-7026) Elsevier

Expedição científica

Descrição da atividade Instituição / Organização
2019/08 - 2021/03 Field work for PLASMAR/PLASMAR+ Project. Developed and applied monitoring methodologies for subtidal sandy seabeds affected by commercial sand extraction, supporting ecosystem-based marine spatial planning (EU MSFD, Descriptor 6). Conducted SCUBA- and vessel-based surveys, including onboard sampling with dredge vessels. Laboratory analyses and GIS-based spatial analyses (ArcGIS) of benthic and sediment data. Contributed to technical reports, monitoring manuals, and species identification guides for regional environmental management. Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/10 Participated in a demersal survey aboard the R/V Arquipelago at the Condor Seamount: data collecting on deep-sea fish abundance, biology and ecology; contribution to monitoring and sustainable management of benthic resources in the Azores. Universidade dos Açores Instituto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar Okeanos, Portugal
2017/08 - 2018/12 Field work at the Center for Marine Resource Studies (CMRS) South Caicos (Turks and Caicos Islands). Supervised student field exercises and ensured safety during SCUBA and field activities; taught classroom modules in tropical marine ecology. Conducted scientific surveys on sea turtles (acoustic and flipper tagging), elasmobranchs (drum lining; acoustic, PIT, ROTO tagging) and benthic habitats (coral reef health, fish abundance and diversity). School for Field Studies, Estados Unidos

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2025 - Atual European Cetacean Society
2022 - Atual Society for Marine Mammalogy