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Education

2017-ongoing: PhD candidate

University of Tasmania

Institute of Marine and Antarctic StudiesCentre for Marine Socioecology (CMS) & Adrift Lab & Tangaroa Blue Foundation

"Identifying community-based reduction and mitigation tools for plastic debris in Australia"

Supervisors: Jennifer Lavers, Alex Bond, Andrew Fischer, Heidi Taylor

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2014-2016:  MSc Conservation Biology 

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

 “Microplastic pollution in estuarine food chains”  (URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/23082)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. José Pedro Granadeiro & Dr. Pedro Lourenço

 

2006-2012: BSc in Environmental Biology

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

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Work experience

May 2017-October 2017: Field Assistant & Researcher - Monitoring the Iberian Emerald Lizard, Lacerta schreiberi in Sintra, Portugal. 

 

 

March 2016-December 2016: Researcher at GAME (Global Approach by Modular Experiments Project - http://go.shr.lc/2jElq46). 

Does heat stress amplify the effect of microplastics on marine benthic filter feeders?”.

 

 

 

 

August 2013-March 2014: Volunteer research assistant (VRA) for the project “Foraging ecology, movements and abundance of an avian predator of mesopelagic prey: new and deeper insights using novel techniques and ideas” (http://go.shr.lc/2jECzL2

Supervisor: Dr. Silke Waap​

December 2013: VRA for the project “Powerlines and Birds. Impact and mitigation” 

April 2013-November 2013: VRA for the project: “Foraging behaviour, diet and energetic intake of shorebirds”. 

Supervisor: Dr. Pedro Lourenco

September 2012-January 2013: VRA for the project “Giant South American River Turtle Project: Conserving for the future

  • National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil (URL: portal.inpa.gov.br/)

 

 

January 2012-July 2012: VRA for the Carnivore Conservation Ecology research team (https://goo.gl/3GP03Q).  

  • University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences | Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (ce3c department)

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Awards & Grants

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2019 - Awarded with a National Geographic Society grant (Reducing Ocean Plastic Pollution - https://goo.gl/QgWn44) with the project "Effectiveness of community-based Source Reduction Plans for marine plastic debris".

 

2017 –  PhD scholarship, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Project: "Identify patterns in the distribution of plastic debris in Australia".

 

2016 – 2nd best poster: Gonçalves, C. S., Catry, T., Granadeiro J.P. & Lourenço, P.M. (2016) Plastic food: microplastic consumption by shorebirds and their prey in three intertidal habitats along the East Atlantic Flyway. International Wader Study Group Conference. 09-12 September. Trabolgan, Ireland

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