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Sara Sá is a PhD student at University of Aveiro, attending the PhD program: Biology and Ecology of Global Changes, with a thesis focusing on the pollution by marine litter and its impacts on marine fauna. Her area of scientific activity is in the field of marine ecology, being related to the pollution of the marine environment by floating debris. Her host institution is the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) - University of Aveiro. During her academic career Sara Sá developed skills in field sampling techniques, distribution pattern analysis and distance sampling methods. Sara Sá participated in 3 scientific projects related with the conservation of marine ecosystems (MarPro, CetSenti, ConMar) and one environmental project "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos".
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Maria Fardilha Alves de Sá
Date of birth
1988/10/05
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Sá, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6E1B-B9BE-7EF1
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2473-0713

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 917559147 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Porto de Pesca Costeira do Porto de Aveiro, 3830-565 , Gafanha da Nazaré, Ílhavo, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Galician Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/09/01 - 2020/10/30
Ongoing
 Biology and Ecology of Global Changes (BEGC) (Doutoramento)
Major in Marine biology and ecology
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Marine litter: trends and impacts in marine fauna" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/01/29 - 2018/04/23
Concluded
 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Marine Litter (Outros)
Open Universiteit, Netherlands
2017/07/10 - 2017/07/14
Concluded
 Advanced course on Scientific Writing and Communication (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/04/18 - 2017/04/22
Concluded
 Advanced course: Introduction to R for Biologists (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/01/30 - 2017/02/03
Concluded
 Advanced course: Experimental Design and Analysis of Multivariate Data (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010/09 - 2013/12/19
Concluded
 Applied Biology, specialization in Marine Biology (Mestrado)
Major in Marine biology
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Floating Debris in the Portuguese Continental Offshore Waters" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2012/05/08 - 2012/05/11
Concluded
 Introduction to GIS in Ecology course: An Introduction to Using GIS in Marine Biology (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012/01/30 - 2012/02/02
Concluded
 Introduction to Distance sampling course (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2007/09 - 2010/07/01
Concluded
 Biology and Geology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/06/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014/06/01 - 2015/05/31 Research Trainee (Research) Mesocosmo C. T.S.C., Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/01/01 - Current Collaborator in the Marine Mammal Stranding Network (RAMM) Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/14 - 2023/12/13 Monitorização de cetáceos - Boto
BI/UI88/7167/2023
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2015/06/01 - 2015/12/31 Cetsenti - Cetaceans as marine ecosystem health sentinels
FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027472
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/07/01 - 2023/06/30 ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos
PT-INNOVATION-0042
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 EEA Grants
Concluded
2022 - 2022 Apoio aos Centros de Recuperação da Fauna
Despacho nº 3143-B/2022
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2022 - 2022 Apoio à Rede Nacional de Arrojamentos de Mamíferos Marinhos
Despacho n.º 3143-B/2022
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2022 - 2022 Cetacean Monitoring - SCANS IV
Despacho nº 3143-B/2022
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2021 - 2021 Apoio aos Centros de Recuperação da Fauna
Despacho nº 1897/2021
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2021 - 2021 Apoio à Rede Nacional de Arrojamentos de Mamíferos Marinhos
Despacho nº 1897/2021
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2020 - 2020 Apoio aos Centros de Recuperação da Fauna
Despacho nº 2269-A/2020
Member
Concluded
2020 - 2020 Apoio à Rede Abrigos - arrojamentos de mamíferos marinhos
Despacho nº 2269-A/2020
Member
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01 - 2019/11 ConMar - Conservation of the Marine Environment: contribution to the conservation of Maceda-Praia da Vieira Site and the SPA Aveiro-Nazaré
ConMar
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 LIFE+ MARPRO – Conservation of marine protected species in mainland Portugal
LIFE 09 NAT/PT/00038
Other
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Sá, Sara; Bastos-Santos, Jorge; Araújo, Helder; Ferreira, Marisa; Duro, V.; Alves, Flávia; Panta-Ferreira, Bruno; et al. "Association of floating debris and cetaceans in the northeastern Atlantic offshore". Paper presented in Workshop on Functional Biodiversity, 2018.
  2. Sá, Sara; Bastos-Santos, Jorge; Araújo, Helder; Ferreira, Marisa; Duro, Virgínia; Alves, Flávia; Panta-Ferreira, Bruno; et al. "Association of floating debris and cetaceans in the northeastern Atlantic offshore". Paper presented in 30th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 2016.
    10.4043/19785-ms
Journal article
  1. Sá, Sara; Torres-Pereira, Andreia; Ferreira, Marisa; Monteiro, Sílvia S.; Fradoca, Raquel; Sequeira, Marina; Vingada, José; Eira, Catarina. "Microplastics in Cetaceans Stranded on the Portuguese Coast". Animals 13 20 (2023): 3263. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13203263.
    10.3390/ani13203263
  2. Andreia Torres-Pereira; Hélder Araújo; Silvia Silva Monteiro; Marisa Ferreira; Jorge Bastos-Santos; Sara Sá; Lídia Nicolau; et al. "Assessment of Harbour Porpoise Bycatch along the Portuguese and Galician Coast: Insights from Strandings over Two Decades". Animals (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13162632.
    10.3390/ani13162632
  3. Torres-Pereira, Andreia; Araújo, Hélder; Matos, Fábio L.; Bastos-Santos, Jorge; Sá, Sara; Ferreira, Marisa; Martínez-Cedeira, José; et al. "Harbour Porpoise Abundance in Portugal over a 5-Year Period and Estimates of Potential Distribution". Animals 12 15 (2022): 1935. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12151935.
    10.3390/ani12151935
  4. Sá, Sara; Bastos-Santos, Jorge; Araújo, Hélder; Pereira, Andreia Torres; Ferreira, Marisa; Sarmento, Pedro; Vingada, José; Eira, Catarina. "Floating marine litter and their risks to cetaceans off Portugal". Marine Pollution Bulletin 170 (2021): 112603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112603.
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112603
  5. Costa, R.A.; Sá, S.; Pereira, A.T.; Ângelo, A.R.; Vaqueiro, J.; Ferreira, M.; Eira, C.. "Prevalence of entanglements of seabirds in marine debris in the central Portuguese coast". Marine Pollution Bulletin 161 (2020): 111746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111746.
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111746
  6. Monteiro, Sílvia (A01F-BD85-BC5C); Bozzetti, Márcia; Torres, Jordi; Tavares, Ana S.; Ferreira, Marisa; Pereira, Andreia T; Sá, Sara; et al. "Striped dolphins as trace element biomonitoring tools in oceanic waters: Accounting for health-related variables". Science of The Total Environment 699 (2020): 134410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134410.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134410
  7. Sá, Sara; Bastos-Santos, Jorge; Araújo, Helder; Ferreira, Marisa; Duro, Virgínia; Alves, Flávia; Panta-Ferreira, Bruno; et al. "Spatial distribution of floating marine debris in offshore continental Portuguese waters". Marine Pollution Bulletin 104 1-2 (2016): 269-278. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84954304844&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.01.011
  8. Nicolau, Lídia; Marçalo, Ana; Ferreira, Marisa; Sá, Sara; Vingada, José; Eira, Catarina. "Ingestion of marine litter by loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in Portuguese continental waters". Marine Pollution Bulletin 103 1-2 (2016): 179-185. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959548673&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.12.021
Newspaper article
  1. Sá, Sara; Eira, Catarina. "Floating marine litter", Diário de Aveiro, 2016
Report
  1. Vingada, José; Pereira, Andreia T; Ferreira, Marisa; Monteiro, Sílvia (A01F-BD85-BC5C); Braga, Élia; Gomes, Tiago; Sá, Sara; et al. 2015. Implementation of mitigation measures in fishing gear. Annex to the 4th progress report of the LIFE MarPro NAT/PT/00038 project..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Sá, Sara. "Floating Debris in the Portuguese Continental Offshore Waters". Master, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. https://ria.ua.pt/simple-search?query=Floating+Debris+in+the+Portuguese+Continental+Offshore+Waters.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/14 Predadores e Ameaças Programa de Educação Ambiental CRAM-ECOMARE
39 alunos; Agrupamento de Escolas do Eixo - Escola Básica de Azurva (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/12 Lixo Marinho Programa de Educação Ambiental CRAM-ECOMARE
56 alunos; Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Mário Sacramento (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/11/22 O projeto ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos Sessão de divulgação de resultados do CPRAM-ECOMARE
Departamento de Biologia da Universidade de Aveiro (Ílhavo, Portugal)
2023 Lixo Marinho In the scope of "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos" project
104 alunos; Agrupamento de Escolas da Gafanha da Nazaré (Portugal)
2023 Reabilitação de Animais Marinhos In the scope of "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos" project
81 alunos dos Agrupamentos de Escolas de Ílhavo e da zona urbana da Figueira da Foz (Portugal)
2022 Lixo Marinho In the scope of "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos" project
123 alunos; Agrupamentos de Escolas da Gafanha da Encarnação e da Nazaré (Portugal)
2021/12/17 ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos In the scope of "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos" project
Escola E.B. 2/3 Florbela Espanca de Esmoriz (Esmoriz, Ovar, Portugal)
2021/04/07 ECOMARE: SOS Marine Animals - Virtual Tour In the scope of "ECOMARE: SOS Animais Marinhos" project
Escola Básica da Gafanha da Encarnação 2 º e 3º ciclo (Ílhavo, Portugal)
2019/12/11 Macro-litter in stranded cetaceans in North-eastern Portugal World Marine Mammal Conference
Society for Marine Mammalogy; European Cetacean Society (ECS) (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/12/04 Marine litter
Ecomare - University of Aveiro (Ílhavo, Portugal)
2019/10/25 Marine litter: trends and impacts in marine fauna 1st PhD student Meeting Biology & Ecology of Global Changes
FCUL - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/21 Marine litter 50 students from the 10th grade
Escola Secundária da Póvoa de Lanhoso (Póvoa de lanhoso, Portugal)
2019/02/14 Introductory flash presentation in Floating Marine Macro-Litter International Workshop Floating Marine Macro-Litter International Workshop
ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (Rome, Italy)
2018/11/15 Human influence on the ocean. Impacts vs. sustainable use In the scope of the curricular unit of Law and Policies of the Sea from Marine Sciences Degree
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/09 Influence of anthropogenic factors in the community of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in portuguese continental waters XV Portuguese-Spanish Herpetology Congress
(Salamanca, Spain)
2017/11/22 Floating marine litter: quantities, sources and consequences to marine fauna National Sea Day - Marine Pollution: Origins and Consequences
Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Física (Aveiro, Portugal)
2017/05/22 Marine litter almost out of sight Local Seminar "Schools and the Coastwatch"
400 students from EB1 and EB2,3 schools (Ílhavo, Portugal)
2017/03/24 Floating marine debris in Portuguese offshore waters In the scope of the curricular unit of Law and Policies of the Sea from Marine Sciences Degree
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2017/03/17 Platform OX17/Marine litter
100 students from Amar Terra Verde Professional School (Vila Verde, Portugal)
2017/03/15 Floating debris in portuguese offshore waters VI Environmental Forum
FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/03/02 Platform OX17/Marine litter EcoJourneys
80 students from School grouping of Gafanha da Encarnação (Ílhavo, Portugal)

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2016/11/10 Interview describing the masther thesis work on quantifying the floating marine litter in the Portuguese offshore waters University of Aveiro online journal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/21 Na mira do Ambiente/ In the sight of the Environment Marine litter
2016/12/09 - 2016/12/09 TVI news Floating marine litter
2016/11/12 - 2016/11/12 SIC news Plastic litter predominant in Portuguese waters
2016/11/10 - 2016/11/10 TSF news Floating marine litter in the Portuguese waters