Personal identification

Full name

Rui Pedro Peres dos Santos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

2912-6AF4-751A

Email addresses

• rpsantos@pattern.institute (Professional)
• rpsantos@rorqual.com (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2021/04/01 - 2025/03/31 Ongoing	Ciências do Mar da Terra e do Ambiente (Doutoramento) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal "Temporal and spatial distribution of cetaceans in the Azores as a means to define migration and movement patterns and associated biotic and abiotic distributional driving factors" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/11/29 - 2009/04/30 Concluded	Biologia Marinha (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal "The effect of Warfarin in bone development in zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15
2003/09 - 2006/11/28 Concluded	Biologia Marinha (Licenciatura) Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal	13

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/07/26 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Mingan Island Cetacean Study, Canada

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/07/01 - 2021/03/31	Encarregado Geral Operacional (Assistente Operacional)	Futurismo, Portugal
2011/07/15 - 2017/05/31	Encarregado Geral Operacional (Assistente Operacional)	Espaço Talassa, Portugal
2009/10/01 - 2010/09/30	Assistente Operacional (Assistente Operacional)	Formosamar, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/04/01 - 2025/03/31	Temporal and spatial distribution of cetaceans in the Azores as a means to define migration and movement patterns and associated biotic and abiotic distributional driving factors UI/BD/151306/2021 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal Mingan Island Cetacean Study, Canada Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2010/10/01 - 2011/06/30	ACTIVIDADES DE GESTÃO EM CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA - FINANCIAMENTO PLURIANUAL DE UNIDADES DE I&D info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBGCT2%F159352%F2005/PT Research Technician Fellow Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Concluded
2008/04/01 - 2009/09/30	PPCDT/MAR/60883/2004 PPCDT/MAR/60883/2004 Scientific Initiation Fellow Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal	Concluded

Publications

Conference poster

Peres dos Santos, Rui; Rodríguez, Yasmina; Richard Sears; Magno, Ramiro; Castilho, Rita. "Tour-operators as Key tool to Improve Information on Data Deficient Cetacean Species". Paper presented in Our Oceans, Our Future, 2023. Santos, Rui. "Comparison of the Northwest Atlantic – NWA and Northeast Atlantic – NEA Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) photo-identification catalogs.". Paper presented in XXX European Cetacean Society Conference, 2016. Santos, Rui. "Anomalously white Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1892) in the south coast of Pico Island, Azores". Paper presented in XXIX European Cetacean Society Conference, 2015. Santos, Rui. "Migration of Baleen Whales in Pico Island, Azores". Paper presented in XXVIII European Cetacean Society Conference, 2014. Peres dos Santos, Rui. "The Sperm whales (Physester machrocephalus, Linnaeus, 1758) of the South of Pico island, Azores". Paper presented in XXVII European Cetacean Society Conference, 2013. Santos, Rui. "The effect of Warfarin in the skeleton development in zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae". Paper presented in Marine Genomics Europe Final General Assembly, 2008.

Journal article

Peres dos Santos, Rui; Rodríguez, Yasmina; Sears, Richard; Magno, Ramiro; Castilho, Rita. "Tour Operators as a Tool to Improve Information on Data-Deficient Cetacean Species". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 35 2 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70067. 10.1002/aqc.70067 Forli, M.Júlia; Peres dos Santos, Rui; Rodrigues, Alfredo; Castilho, Rita. "The impact of touristic whale-watching on Delphinus Delphis and Tursiops truncatus in the Algarve Coast: Combining acoustic analysis and land observations". Ocean and Coastal Management 259 (2024): 107431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107431. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107431 Peres dos Santos, Rui; Rafael Martins; Anton Chaiko; Ted Cheeseman; Lindsey S. Jones; Frederick W. Wenzel. "First humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) re-sighting between Azorean waters and the Barents Sea (Murman coast, northwestern Russia)". Polar Biology (2022): Published Alves, Filipe; Alessandrini,  Anita; Servidio, Antonella; Mendonça, Ana Sofia; Hartman, Karin L.; Prieto, Rui; Berrow, Simon; et al. "Complex biogeographical patterns support an ecological connectivity network of a large marine predator in the north-east Atlantic". Diversity and Distributions (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12848. 10.1111/ddi.12848 Santos, Rui. "Anomalously White Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontallis, Cuvier 1892) Off the Azores.". Aquatic Mammals (2016):