Na passada segunda-feira foi lançado o livro Abrindo Trilhos, Tecendo Redes – Reflexões e Experiências de Desenvolvimento Local em Contexto Lusófono. O Livro foi apresentado na Livraria Barata; a Prof. Clara Carvalho, Presidente do Centro de Estudos Africanos (CEA/ISCTE-IUL) fez a apresentação inicial, muito elogiosa. Depois, o Professor Luís Moita teceu considerações sobre o desenvolvimento local, [...]
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Palestras por cientistas eminentes – Lectures by eminent scientists at the University of Algarve
Exmos(as) Senhores(as), Venho convidá-los para as palestras proferidas pelos professores Sidney Holt e Daniel Pauly nos dias 28 e 29 de Janeiro no Campus de Gambelas da Universidade do Algarve. Os professores Holt e Pauly são os investigadores que maior influência tiveram na gestão mundial dos recursos marinhos nos últimos 50 anos. As palestras são [...]
1º Workshop SUSTAINAMICS
A semana passada (dia 16 de Dezembro 2009) participei no 1º workshop do projecto SUSTAINAMICS. O projecto SUSTAINAMICS – Modelação Participada para a Avaliação Integrada da Sustentabilidade, que aborda o desafio “Como criar uma visão holística dos problemas que afectam a sustentabilidade dos ambientes marinhos e costeiros em Portugal?”. Foi organizado pelos Centro de Investigação em [...]
Talk at the University of Peniche: International Whaling Commission – History Corruption and Possible Solutions
Talk given at the University of Peniche, Portugal. The theme of the caucus was “emerge and submerged”. There were various talks around different subjects, such as fisheries, artificial aquariums, genetics, animals affected by petroleum, and 3 speeches on marine mammals. I was presenting such a topic, “The International Whaling Commission – History, Corruption and Possible [...]
PICA
Ricardo Antunes (my personal friend and cetology guru) and me are implementing a project in the Azores named PICA (Projecto de Investigação para o Cachalote dos Açores) that in Portuguese means Research Program for the Sperm whale of the Azores. It is focused on the temporal and geographic variation of sperm whale acoustic clans and [...]
Red sea heaven
The last 2 weeks (23-01 to 06-02) I’ve been away in Egypt caring on a scientific diving training. This was a joint effort of Ocean Quest and University of Glamorgan in order to take people out in the field and give them some insight on how and when to apply different scientific procedures and techniques. [...]
Circadian Rhythms
The things I have to do as part of my course work… this is one of them, a kind of sleep deprivation, a circadian rhythm (in scientific languange), and so for 48 hours I became my very own lab rat … this website gives an account of the experimental procedure and also a good insight [...]