Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Ana Figueiredo Peixe Dias
Citation names
- Dias, Maria P.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- C314-2D17-F647
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7281-4391
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 966817176 (Personal)
Websites
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Dias11 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2009/02/13
Concluded
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Biologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Ecologia
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Factors affecting the use of estuarine areas by waders: implications for their conservation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1994 - 1999
Concluded
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Biologia Aplicada aos Recursos Animais (Licenciatura)
Major in Terrestre
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Birds from the saltpans of Castro Marim Nature Reserve: phenology, habitat use, conservation priorities and management measures
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| 2009 - 2013 | Postdoc (Research)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
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Teaching in Higher Education
| 2014 - 2016 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
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| 2009 - 2011 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Others
| 2016 - Current | Marine Science Coordinator
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
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| 2013 - 2016 | Marine Analyst
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
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Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 - 2013 | Migration patterns and winter distribution of Cory’s shearwater Calonectris diomedea: the importance of sea surface temperature,
breeding success and body condition
SFRH/BPD/46827/2008
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2004 - 2008 | Factors affecting the use of estuarine areas by waders: implications for their conservation
SFRH/BD/19313/2004
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2022 | Inspire4Nature: International training at the Science-Policy Interface for Researchers in Europe, for Nature
766417
Supervisor
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions |
| 2020 - 2021 | Plastic connectivity: disentangling the problem of plastic pollution for pelagic seabirds
CCI-05-19-013
Principal investigator
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Cambridge Conservation Initative |
| 2017 - 2021 | STRONG High Seas – Strengthening regional governance for the High Seas
17_IV_063
Researcher
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Bundesministerium für Umwelt Naturschutz und Nukleare Sicherheit |
| 2016 - 2021 | GOBI - Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative
16_IV_049
Researcher
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Bundesministerium für Umwelt Naturschutz und Nukleare Sicherheit |
| 2019 - 2020 | Defining a network of priority conservation sites at sea for penguins breeding at Antarctica
PEW ID 00032674
Principal investigator
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The PEW Charitable Trusts |
| 2018 - 2019 | Conservation of threatened top marine predators of the French Southern Territories: Identifying Threats and Getting Essential
Data
2234
Researcher
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European Commission |
| 2017 - 2019 | Identifying and confirming marine Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas around South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands to inform the MPA review
940-G-PESG
Principal investigator
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The PEW Charitable Trusts |
| 2016 - 2019 | SEAMIGRANT - Causes and consequences of individual variability in the migratory strategies of a pelagic seabird, with relevance
for marine monitoring in a context of global changes
PTDC/BIA-ANM/3743/2014
Researcher
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2013 - 2019 | Alcyon Project: Protecting seabird and marine IBAs in West Africa
NA
Researcher
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MAVA Foundation |
| 2017 - 2018 | Learning from Citizen Science approaches to map threats to wildlife globally and inform conservation policies
CCI-07-17-010
Researcher
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Cambridge Conservation Initative |
| 2016 - 2018 | EO4Wildlife - Platform for wildlife monitoring integrating Copernicus and ARGOS data
ID: 687275
Researcher
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European Commission |
| 2016 - 2018 | Managing Antarctic krill fisheries: identifying candidate marine areas for protection
DPLUS054
Researcher
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United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs |
| 2016 - 2017 | Marine IBA identification in Antarctic Peninsula
PEW ID: 29326
Principal investigator
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The PEW Charitable Trusts |
| 2014 - 2016 | Marine Spatial Planning for the Falkland Islands
DPLUS027
Researcher
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United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs |
| 2013 - 2015 | Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Marine Protected Areas: using penguin tracking data to identify candidate areas
DPLUS009
Researcher
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United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs |
| 2013 - 2015 | Identifying important marine areas for macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus in the UK and French OTs
BEST-2012-6
Researcher
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European Commission |
| 2012 - 2015 | Bulweria - Foraging ecology, movements and abundance of an avian predator of mesopelagic prey: new and deeper insights using
novel techniques and ideas
PTDC/MAR/121071/2010
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2012 - 2015 | Invisible links: unveiling origins of migratory waders using biogeochemical markers
PTDC/MAR/119920/2010
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2010 - 2012 | ALBATROZ - Learning from the flight of the albatross: causes and consequences of individual foraging strategies, with links
to demography, oceanography and fisheries
PTDC/MAR/099366/2008
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2008 - 2012 | Atlantic ocean-wide changes in sea surface temperature and trends on Cory´s shearwater Calonectris diomedea foraging success,
migration and population dynamics
PTDC/MAR/71927/2006
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2008 - 2012 | MigraTagis: Wintering and migrating shorebirds as indicators of the quality of estuarine environments
PTDC/MAR/66319/2006
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2003 - 2006 | Pred-Tagis: Birds as predators of invertebrates in intertidal habitats: role in estuarine environments and scale-dependent
processes
POCTI/BSE/47569/2002
Research Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2000 - 2003 | Sat-Tagis: Modeling the habitats of primary producers, invertebrates and birds in the intertidal flats of the Tagus estuary,
using satellite images and GIS
PDCTM/C/MAR/15256/1999
Research Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Online resource |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2019/03 | Principais causas de declínio de aves marinhas a nível global | X Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA
(Peniche, Portugal)
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| 2019/03 | Tracking migratory seabirds to identify priority areas for marine conservation | BOU 2016 Annual Conference - Tracking migration: drivers, challenges and consequences of seasonal movements
(Warwick, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/09 | Combining tracking data and habitat models to identify marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (mIBAS) for penguins: how, where, when and why | 14th International Seabird Conference
(Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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| 2018 | From satellites to ships: BirdLife International’s work on seabird tracking for marine conservation | World Oceans Day, David Attenborough Building
The Cambridge University Marine Conservation Society. (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/09 | Using Tracking Data for marine conservation | The Sixth Bio-logging Conference
(Konstanz, Germany)
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| 2016/10 | Marine IBAs: a tool for marine conservation in West Africa | Pan-African Ornithological Congress
(Dakar, Senegal)
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| 2016/09 | Wanderer of the night: distribution and at-sea activity of the Bulwer’s petrel during the incubation period | Albatross and Petrel Conferences IAPC6
(Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2016/09 | Seabird Tracking Database: 12 years of joined efforts for bird conservation | Albatross and Petrel Conferences IAPC6
(Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2016/09 | A first assessment of marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for penguins in Subarea 48.1 (Antarctic Peninsula, and South Shetland Islands) and Subarea 48.2 (South Orkney Islands) | International Penguin Congress IPC9
(Cape Town, South Africa)
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| 2016/04 | Using R to identify marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA) with animal tracking data | International conference Spatial Ecology & Conservation 4
(Bristol, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/04 | Seabird Tracking Database: seguimento de aves pela ciência e pela conservação | IX Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA
(Vila Real, Portugal)
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| 2015/10 | The BirdLife International approach to identifying marine IBAs from tracking data:Major achievements and future challenges | Second World Seabird Conference
(Cape Town, South Africa)
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| 2015/04 | Using seabird tracking data to identify marine protected areas: does inter-annual variation justify multiple year tracking? | BOU 2015 Annual Conference - Birds in time and space: avian tracking and remote sensing
(Leicester, United Kingdom)
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| 2014/03 | Como migram as aves marinhas? Diferenças e semelhanças com migradores terrestres | VIII Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA
(Almada, Portugal)
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| 2014 | Tracking Ocean Wanderers: Following at-sea movements of seabirds for science and for conservation | CEEC Seminars
University of East Anglia (Norwich, United Kingdom)
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| 2012/05 | A migração de longa distância das cagarras que nidificam nas Selvagens: quando, como e para onde viajam? | Worksop As Aves Migratórias, integrado nas comemorações do Dia Mundial das Aves Migratórias
(Alcochete, Portugal)
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| 2012 | Working the day or the night shift? Geographical variability and moon effects on the daily schedules of two pelagic seabirds | The Fifth International Albatross and Petrel Conference
(Wellington, New Zealand)
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| 2009/12 | Para onde vão as cagarras das Selvagens e da Berlenga durante o Inverno? | VI Congresso de Ornitologia, SPEA
(Elvas, Portugal)
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| 2007/06 | O Valor Ornitológico das Salinas: o Caso de Castro Marim. | Wokshop Importância das Salinas de Castro Marim para a Conservação da Natureza e o Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Região
(Castro Marim, Portugal)
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| 2006/03 | Limícolas e mariscadores no estuário do Tejo – poderão coexistir? | V Congresso de Ornitologia, SPEA.
(Oeiras, Portugal)
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| 2003/11 | Porque seguem as limícolas a maré? | IV Congresso de Ornitologia e II Jornadas Ibéricas de Ornitologia, SPEA
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2002/12 | Comunidades de Aves dos Sapais Secos dos Estuários do Tejo e do Guadiana. | Seminário sobre a Conservação da Avifauna dos Sapais Secos da Reserva Natural do Sapal de Castro Marim e VRSA
(Castro Marim, Portugal)
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| 2001/11 | Como reagem as limícolas ao movimento da maré? | III Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA
(Castelo Branco, Portugal)
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| 2000/02 | Aves Aquáticas das Salinas de Castro Marim. | Seminário sobre o Dia Mundial das Zonas Húmidas, ICN
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 1999/12 | Utilização das Salinas de Castro Marim pela Comunidade de Limícolas | II Congresso de Ornitologia, SPEA
(Faro, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2020 - Current | The effectiveness of protected areas at conserving biodiversity
Co-supervisor
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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| 2018 - Current | Identifying Marine Key Biodiversity Areas using tracking data
Co-supervisor
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Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2019 | Conserving Antarctic penguins: identification of critical sites in support of the Antarctic MPA network
Co-supervisor
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International Master in Applied Ecology (Master)
University of East Anglia School of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom
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| 2017 - 2018 | Delineating marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas around seabird colonies in Saint Helena, UK
Co-supervisor
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MSc Applied Ecology and Conservation (Master)
University of East Anglia School of Biological Sciences, United Kingdom
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| 2013 - 2014 | Migratory movements of a pelagic bird, the Bulwer´s petrel (Bulweria bulwerii)
Co-supervisor
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Master’s thesis in Conservation Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2012 - 2013 | Breeding behaviour of an avian predator of mesopelagic prey: the Bulwer’s petrel
Co-supervisor
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Master’s thesis in Marine Ecology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2011 - 2012 | Using feathers to gather information on the wintering distribution, habitat and fitness of a pelagic seabird, the Cory’s Shearwater
Calonectris diomedea
Co-supervisor
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Master’s thesis in Conservation Biology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 - 2010 | Citizen science project Arenaria - Non-estuarine Coastal Bird Survey in Portugal (https://sites.google.com/site/projectoarenaria/english). (2009 - 2010)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020/06/19 - 2020/06/19 | World Albatross Day, raising awareness for the most endangered groups of birds in the world. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-uEU2m44c&list=PLjf5GrOWkQXM7izXX1gaLxAYF35fGWlQH&index=2
Other
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World Albatross Day 2020
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, United Kingdom
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| 2018 - 2018 | Participation in workshops, round tables and media events related to Children's literature (https://www.kibuwo-koeln.de/home/)
organized by the Cultural Office of the city of Cologne and the Cultural Foundation of Cologne’s Commercial Savings Bank,
Germany.
Festival
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International Children’s and Young Adults Book Weeks, Cologne, Germany. |
| 2018 - 2018 | V Seminar Art of Reading Nature, Alcobaça, Portugal. Organized by the Network of Portuguese Libraries in collaboration with
the Portuguese Ministry of Education, and targeting teachers of secondary schools
Seminar
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V Seminário Da Arte de Ler - a natureza |
| 2016 - 2016 | Official opening of the David Attenborough Building, CCI stand “Technology for Conservation”, organized by the Cambridge Conservation
Initiative.
Other
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| 2014 - 2014 | Observanatura: Portuguese Birdwatching Fair. Organized by the Portuguese Ministry of the Environment.
Festival
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ObservaNatura |
| 2006 - 2013 | Participation in several activities at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, including in the European
Researchers' Nights, collaboration in several exhibitions, science festivals, activities and talks for the general public.
Exhibition
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Trophic ecology, migration and demography of Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) in the Atlantic Ocean
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Marta Cruz Flores (PhD)
Universitat de Barcelona Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Spain
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| 2019 | Bridging from arctic to the tropics: implications of long distance migration to individual fitness
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Camilo Carneiro (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2019 | Assessing the distribution and vulnerability of a seabird community at sea to inform conservation and management
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Emma Jane Critchley (PhD)
University College Cork School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ireland
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| 2018 | The foraging ecology of the short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris): Life-history strategies and climate variability
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Natalie Bool (PhD)
University of Tasmania, Australia
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| 2015 | Living in human created habitats: the ecology and conservation of waders on salinas
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Afonso Rocha (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2012 | Ecological segregation and competition amongst European robins Erithacus rubecula in Iberian winter quarters: the roles of
sex, age and geographic origin
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Campos (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2009 | Cavity occurrence and use by hole-nesting birds in Pyrenean managed oak forests
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Andreia Penado (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 - Current | Antarctic Science Ltd | Board of directors of Antarctic Science Ltd, Cambridge, UK (http://www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/about/) |
| 1999 - 2011 | Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves | Board of directors of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA/BirdLife partner in Portugal), 4 years as vice-president. |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/05/20 - Current | Member of the UN pool of experts of the Second Cycle of the Regular Process (Second World Ocean Assessment) | |
| 2017 - Current | Member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Steering Committee for the Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) system
(https://mgel.env.duke.edu/mico/).
Member
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Duke University, United States |
| 2017 - Current | Member of the Technical Working Group of the Key Biodiversity Areas Committee (http://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/home). | Key Biodiversity Area Partnership, United Kingdom |
| 2016 - Current | Member of the GOBI (Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative) Scientific Steering Committee | Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative, United Kingdom |
| 2015 - 2018 | PhD Thesis in Biodiversity: Trophic migratory and population ecology of Bulwer’s petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) in the Atlantic Ocean | Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Biologia Animal, Spain |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2016 | Albatross and Petrel Conferences IAPC6 | Barcelona |
| 2016 - 2016 | IX Portuguese and VI Iberian Ornithological Congress | Vila Real |
| 2014 - 2014 | VIII Portuguese Ornithological Congress | Almada |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 - 2019 | Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas in the North-East Atlantic Ocean | Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada |
| 2019 - 2019 | Meeting of the OSPAR Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Protected Areas. Isle of Vilm, Germany | OSPAR Convention, United Kingdom |
| 2019 - 2019 | Meeting of the OSPAR Biological Diversity & Ecosystems Committee. Funchal, Portugal | OSPAR Convention, United Kingdom |
| 2017 - 2017 | Expert Workshop to Develop Options for Modifying the Description of Areas Meeting the Criteria for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), for describing new areas, and for strengthening the scientific credibility and transparency of the EBSA process | Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada |
| 2017 - 2017 | Meeting of the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Protected Areas, OSPAR. Brest, France | OSPAR Convention, United Kingdom |
| 2017 - 2017 | Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Baku, Azerbaijan | Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada |
| 2000 - 2009 | GIS consultant in several projects, including the Development Plan of Serra de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park (Portuguese Government), New Island (Falklands Islands) Management Plan (New Island South Conservation Trust), Management Plan for Castro Marim Nature (Guadiana Estuary) Reserve (Portuguese Government) |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 - 2014 | Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation of Birds. Course of Ornithology. Portuguese National Museum of Natural History and Science, Centro de Biociências/ISPA-IU and Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA/BirdLife). | (Outros) | |
| 2006 - 2012 | Lecturer and main organizer of seven Geographic Information Systems courses (approx. 20 hours each). Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA/BirdLife), Liga para a Protecção da Natureza, Centro de Biociências do ISPA-IU and University of Algarve. | (Outros) |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 - Current | Antarctic Science Bursaries to support the development of the careers of promising young scientists, working in any field
of Antarctic science, and from any country.
Evaluator
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Antarctic Science Ltd, United Kingdom | Antarctic Science Ltd |
| 2016 - 2018 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
Evaluator
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European Commission, Belgium | European Commission |
| 2014 - 2015 | External advisor for Postdoctoral Fellowship calls
Evaluator
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Research Foundation - Flanders, Belgium | Research Foundation - Flanders |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Apresentacao do livro Lá Fora – Guia para Descobrir a Natureza | Publico |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 - 2017 | Ovunque 6 | Apresentacao da versao italiana do livro Lá Fora – Guia para Descobrir a Natureza |
| 2014 - 2014 | Portugal no Coração | Apresentacao do Livro Lá Fora – Guia para Descobrir a Natureza |
| 2014 - 2014 | Prova Oral | Apresentacao do livro Lá Fora – Guia para Descobrir a Natureza |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | "Wen Jin” Book Award
National Library of China, China
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| 2014 | Opera Prima Award for excellence of research and implementation of an innovative publishing product
Bologna International Children Book’s Fair, Italy
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