Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- MARIA MARGARIDA MIRANDA DE CASTRO
Citation names
- Castro, Margarida
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 971F-AF68-5799
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7860-2074
Addresses
- Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Edifício 7, 8005-139, Faro, Faro, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2006/03
Concluded
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Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente (Título de Agregado)
Major in Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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n.a. |
1992/05/17
Concluded
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Statistics (Master)
Major in Statistics
University of Rhode Island, United States
"Sampling for Estimating Growth Parameters in Fish Populations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n.a. |
1990/05
Concluded
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Oceanography (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Biolocigal Oceanography
University of Rhode Island, United States
"The use of length frequency analysis for estimation of the age structure of the catch of Nephrops norvegicus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n.a. |
1981/07/22
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Ramo Científico
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Contribuição para o estudo do stock de lagostim (Nephrops norvegicus (L.) da costa continental Portuguesa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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1983/05 - 1990/08 | Research Assistant (Research) | University of Rhode Island, United States |
University of Rhode Island, United States |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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1999/05 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal | ||
1990/10 - 1999/05 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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1987/09/01 - 1998/08/31 | Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program- South Georgia campain 1987/1888
IDnotavailable
PhD Student Fellow
Graduate School of Oceanography, United States
University of Rhode Island, United States |
National Marine Fisheries Service Narragansett Laboratory
Concluded
|
1989/09/01 - 1990/04/30 | Salt Pond Watchers - Monitoring water quality in RI ponds
IDnotavailable
PhD Student Fellow
Graduate School of Oceanography, United States
University of Rhode Island, United States |
Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Concluded
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1988/08/01 - 1989/04/30 | Fisheries Stock Assessment Collaborative Research Support Program
IDnotavailable
PhD Student Fellow
International Center for Marine Resources Development, University of Rhode Island, United States
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USAID
Concluded
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1986/09/01 - 1987/08/31 | Modeling the incidence of disease in winter flounder from Narragansett Bay
IDnot availaboe
PhD Student Fellow
Graduate School of Oceanography, United States
University of Rhode Island, United States |
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
Concluded
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1984/09/01 - 1986/08/31 | Fish Survey in Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound
PhD Student Fellow
Graduate School of Oceanography, United States
University of Rhode Island, United States |
Graduate School of Oceanography
Concluded
|
1984/05/01 - 1984/08/31 | Laboratory verification of the otolith technique to determine the age in larval striped bass from the Hudson River Estuary
IDnotavailable
PhD Student Fellow
Graduate School of Oceanography, United States
University of Rhode Island, United States |
Hudson River Foundation
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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1993 - Current | NEMED - Nephrops norvegicus: Compared Biology and Fishery in the Mediterranean Sea
MED92/008
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
2013/10/01 - 2019/09/30 | Revolutionary potting technologies and aquaculture for scampi
na
Invited Scientist Fellow
Cawthron Institute, New Zealand
|
NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE)
Concluded
|
2015/03/01 - 2019/02/28 | MINOUW - Science, Technology, and Society Initiative to minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
European Union |
2013/12/01 - 2016/11/30 | MOMOTRADE - Memória social de práticas e profissões em comunidades costeiras: o papel do conhecimento local na adaptação às
alterações climáticas
CIRCLE-MED/ 0004/ 2013
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
2015/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | GAMBA - Estudo da viabilidade da pesca da gamba branca (Parapenaeus longirostris) com covos
PROMAR-31-0305-FEP-0074
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
DGRM - Direção-Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos
Concluded
|
2012/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | IMPACT - Long-term effects of continued trawling on deep-water muddy grounds
grant agreement n° 228344
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
European Union
Concluded
|
2007/01/20 - 2009/12/31 | SURVIVAL - Sobrevivência do lagostim (Nephrops norvegicus) que escapa através de sacos de redes de arrasto ou de dispositivos
de redução de capturas acessórias
PDCT/MAR/59366/2004
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
2007/01/01 - 2009/02/28 | SAGRES - Impacto ambiental de artes de pesca fixas na costa sudoeste de Portugal. Conciliar a pesca e a conservação do ecossistema
marinho
POCI/CTA/ 49249/2002
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
2005/09/01 - 2008/12/31 | LOBASSESS - Norway lobster stocks in Portugal. Basis for assessment using information on larval production and ecology
POCTI/BIA-BDE/59426/2004
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2003/03/01 - 2003/05/31 | STRESS - Invertebrate discard viability and fitness in prawn trawl fisheries
MCFI-2002-00027
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
European Union
Concluded
|
1999/03/01 - 2001/02/28 | SURVIVE - The efficacy of releasing caught Nephrops as a management measure
C/2/98-081
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1998/05/01 - 2000/12/31 | NEPGENES - Estimation of population sizes in Norway Lobster, a new methodology
C/1/96-063
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1998/05/01 - 2000/04/30 | COCTEL - Analysis of the Mediterranean (including North Africa) deep-sea shrimp fishery: evolution, catches, efforts and economics
C/1/97-018
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1998/01/01 - 1999/12/31 | IRMAR - Impacto das rejeições ao mar na abundância dos recursos demersais de crustáceos
PRAXIS/ 2/2.1/ MAR/ 1734/95
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
1995/01/01 - 1999/08/31 | FUSCINA - Application and validation of the lipofuscin method in the assessment of crustacean age
FAIR-CT95-0131
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
|
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1996/01/01 - 1999/04/30 | MEC Metodologia para o estudo do crescimento em crustáceos decápodes
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
1997/04/01 - 1999/03/31 | FATES - Methodologies to study the impact of discards in trawl fisheries
C/1/96-064
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1997/02/01 - 1999/01/31 | PESCADA - Hake semi-pelagic long-line selectivity and evaluation of selectivity models for hook and line gear
C/1/96-062
Researcher
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
|
1992/01/01 - 1994/12/31 | Estudos de Base para a Conservação dos Ictiopovoamentos e Gestão da Pesca Costeira na Costa Sudoeste de Portugal
na
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
|
Ministério do Ambiente
Concluded
|
Other
Designation | Funders | |
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1996/01/01 - 1997/12/31 | DEEPSS - Concerted action for the biological and fisheries study of the Mediterranean and adjacent seas deep shrimps
FAIR CT95-0208
Researcher
Consell Superior d'Investigacions Científiques Delegació en Catalunya, Spain
|
European Union - DGXIV
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Journal article |
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Manual |
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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1997 - Current | Supervision of 5 Ph.D. thesis (1 Fisheries, 2 Ecology, 2 Marine Sciences)
Supervisor
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Marine Sciences
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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1994 - Current | Supervision of 40 M. Sc. thesis (11 Erasmus Mundus in Biodiversity and Conservation, 11 Marine Biology, 7 Fisheries and Aquaculture,
1 Management and Conservation, 3 Coastal and Marine Studies, 1 Applied Mathematics, 1 Statistics Applied to Biological Sciences,
1 Marine Resources, Sciences and Coastal Management, 3 Sistemas Marinhos e Costeiros, 1 Université Côte d'Azur)
Supervisor
|
Several M.SC. degrees in Marine Sciences and Conservation including applyed statistics (Master) |
2021 - 2022 | Development of an empirical growth model for feeding optimization in European sea bass, Dicentrachus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)
grown in earthen ponds
Supervisor
|
Aquaculture and FIsheries (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
|
2020 - 2020 | Synchrony between the maturation cycles of males and females in Nephrops norvegicus in the Algarve
Supervisor
|
Conservation and Valorization of Marine Resources (MSc MARRES) (Master)
Université Côte d'Azur, France
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2020 - 2020 | Spatio-temporal factors affecting variations in biomass and mean length of three commercially important species of crustaceans
along the Algarve coast, (South Portugal)
Co-supervisor
|
International Master in Management of Marine Resources (IMBRSea) (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2020 - 2020 | Patterns of algal overgrowth on scleractinian corals in light of environmental and biological parameters around Dahab, Egypt
Co-supervisor
|
International Master in Management of Marine Resources (IMBRSea) (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Red Sea EnvironmentCentre (RSEC), Egypt |
2018 - 2019 | Impact of polyamide microfibers on Marine Organisms, using Mytilus galloprovincialis as a model
Co-supervisor
|
Mestrado em Sistemas Marinhos e Costeiros (SIMCO) (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2018 - 2019 | Evaluation of the impact of artisanal fisheries on the sea turtles of São Tomé Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and
Príncipe
Co-supervisor
|
International Master in Management of Marine Resources (IMBRSea) (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Associação Programa Tatô, São Tomé and Príncipe |
2018 - 2018 | The role of social cohesion in sustainability of ecosystem services: A case study, with two different resource-use models,
in the small-scale fishing community of San Felipe, Yucatan (México)
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
CINESTAV, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico |
2017 - 2018 | Nephrops behavior pattern in baited traps of the Portuguese creel fleet
Supervisor
|
Ms. in Water and Coastal Management (WACOMA) (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Associação Programa Tatô, São Tomé and Príncipe |
2010 - 2016 | Empowerment of the fishing communit of Sesimbra through a participatory process: MARGov - collaborative governance in Marine
Protected Areas
Co-supervisor
|
Ciências da Terra do Mar e do Ambiente (Ciências e Tecnologias das Pescas, Avliação e Gestão de Recursos) UALG (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada |
2015 - 2015 | Economic Valuation of biodiversity loss in Ria Formosa - Public´s WTP
Co-supervisor
|
Master in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Oceanografia, Portugal |
2014 - 2015 | Spatial and temporal variation of commercially important bivalve species in the Algarve coast, Portugal
Co-supervisor
|
Mestrado em Biologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2014 - 2015 | Trawling and creeling for Norway lobster. Impacts on biodiversity and population structure
Co-supervisor
|
Mestrado em Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2014 - 2015 | Technical and economic viability of traps in the Portuguese fishery of deepwater rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris)
Supervisor
|
Mestrado em Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2014 - 2015 | The impact of the Arrábida Marine Park (Portugal) on the decapod crustacean Eualus cranchii - A case study
Co-supervisor
|
Mestrado em Biologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2014 - 2015 | Ciclo zooplanctónico em tanques de terra usados para aquacultura de peixes marinhos em Sistema Multitróico Integrado (IMTA)
Co-supervisor
|
Mestrado em Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | Residency patterns of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in south west Portugal
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Marilimitado , Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | Evaluating benthic feeding activity of reef fish using remote video in São Vicente Is. (Cape Verde)
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | A Value Chain Analysis of the Tuna Industry in Ghana
Supervisor
|
Biologia Marinha (Master)
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
University of Cape Coast, Ghana Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
2013 - 2014 | Efeito do nível de proteína da ração no crescimento de Tenca (Tinca tinca), no crescimento de manjericão (Ocimum basilicum)
e no balanço de nutrientes num sistema de aquaponia
Supervisor
|
Mestrado em Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2013 - 2014 | Estudo dos padrões de abundância larvar de crustáceos decápodes (excepto Brachyura e Anomura) no mar de Alboran (Mediterrâneo
ocidental)
Co-supervisor
|
Biologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2013 - 2013 | Environmental burden and nutricional benefit of seafood: portuguese sardine, hake and codfish products
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
2011 - 2012 | Estudo da Distribuição e Abundância da Baleiapiloto-tropical (Globicephala macrorhynchus) no Arquipélago dos Açores
Co-supervisor
|
Biologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal |
2011 - 2012 | Contributo para Gestão, Caracterização e Diagnóstico da Situação Actual da Pescaria do Caranguejo Vermelho (Chaceon maritae),
na Região Costeira do Namibe-Angola
Supervisor
|
Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
University of Cape Coast, Ghana |
2011 - 2012 | Aspects of Populalion Biology of the Cape Verde Spiny Lobster Palinurus charlestoni Forest and Postel, 1964
Supervisor
|
Recursos e Ciências do Mar e Gestão das Zonas Costeiras (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde |
2011 - 2011 | Resource user´s perceptions towards the marine management Plan of the "Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina"
(SW Portugal)
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Portugal University of Cape Coast, Ghana |
2011 - 2011 | Quantifying catch performance of turtle excluder devices in the Northwest Atlantic bottom trawl fishery
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal National Marine Fisheries Services, United States |
2010 - 2011 | Spiny lobster fisheries in the Southwest (SW) coast of Portugal: Conciliating fisheries and conservation
Supervisor
|
Aquacultura e Pescas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2010 - 2010 | Geostatistical exploration of integrated VMS data from the Aran Ground Nephrops fishery with associated survey estimates:
Establishing the relationship between fishing, biotic and abiotic variables
Co-supervisor
|
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (Master)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Marine Institute, Ireland Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2005 - 2010 | Decapod crustacean larvae dynamics in the west continental coast of Portugal: the region adjacent to Aveiro coastal lagoon
as model
Co-supervisor
|
Ciências do Mar (Ecologia Marinha) UALG (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
2002 - 2007 | Estudo da biologia, ecologia e pesca de búzios, Murex truncatus (Gastropoda: Muricidae), na Ria Formosa
Co-supervisor
|
Ciências do Mar (Biologia Marinha), UALG (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
1995 - 2001 | Thophic ecology of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus (L.) (Crustacea: Nephropidae) in the Mediterranean and adjacent
Atlantic: diets, evacuation rates and daily rations
Co-supervisor
|
Ecologia (Ecologia das Comunidades) UALG (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Consell Superior d'Investigacions Científiques Delegació en Catalunya, Spain Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
1993 - 1997 | Bivalves do litoral oceânico algarvio. Aspectos da biologia, ecologia e da pescaria dos mananciais de interesse económico:
aplicação à gestão dos recursos
Co-supervisor
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Ciências do Mar (Ciências e Tecnologias das Pescas) UALG (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2005/02 - 2008/04 | Centro de Ciência Viva do Algarve | Director |
2004 - 2005 | Comissão Estratégica dos Oceanos | Membro do Conselho Consultivo |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2015 - 2019 | Part of the Technical team supporting the development of the “Marine Spatial Planning” POEM for the fisheries component (identification of relevant input data and review of documents produced) | Environmental Resources Management Iberia SA, Spain |
2016 - 2016 | Member of the technical team for the elaboration of the Report on Technical Assistance for the Scientific Project of the School of the Sea, University of Cape Verde. – The work involved the definition of curricula in the fisheries sector for undergraduate, graduate and technical degrees. | SAER - Sociedade de Avaliação Estratégica e RIsco, Lda, Portugal |
2015 - 2016 | Member of the coordination team and technical team for the elaboration of the Plan for Development of Fisheries in Angola 2016-2020 (PNDA) – to be released in 2017 – work involved the characterization of the fisheries sector and the definition of strategies for the development of the fisheries sector integrating production, infrastructure, development of skills and competencies for different stakeholders and governance strategies (surveillance and compliance). | República de Angola, Angola J & Brothers LDA, Angola |
2015 - 2015 | Member of the technical team for the elaboration of the Strategic Plan for the Cape Verde Marine Cluster (PECMAR). Work involved the definition of strategies for the development of the fisheries sector, in the context of an integrated maritime cluster. | SAER - Sociedade de Avaliação Estratégica e RIsco, Lda, Portugal |
2015 - 2015 | Coordination of the revision of the Environmental Characterization Report (ECR) for Offshore Exploration Drilling Project in Portugal (oceanography, ecology and fisheries information and revision of stakeholders list). | Governo da República Portuguesa, Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | Member of the technical team for the Environmental Impact Assessment and Ex-ante Evaluation of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2014-2020. | Governo da República Portuguesa, Portugal |
2013 - 2013 | Coordination of collection of data and baseline information for the report Environmental, Social & Health Impact Assessment for Offshore Exploration Drilling Project in Portugal. | Environmental Resources Management Iberia SA, Spain |