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R&D Projects

Call for Funding of Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2009

Painel de Avaliação da Área do Ambiente e Alterações Climáticas-2009

Coordination

Ralf Ebinghaus
Institute for Coastal Research, Germany

Evaluation

Aristita Busuioc
National Meteorological Administration, Romania
Barbara Mazzolai
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Hans Poertner
Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Joanna Wibig
Dept. of Meteorology and Climatology - University of Lodz, Poland
Jozef Pacyna
Center for Ecological Economics - NILU, Norway
Maximilian Hempel
German Federal Environmental Foundation, Germany
Milena Horvat
Department of Environmental Sciences - Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Nicola Pirrone
CNR-Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, Italy
Stephen Gerard Jennings
Environmental Change Institute - National University of Ireland, Ireland

Projects assigned

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109797/2009

Geoindicators of natural and anthropogenic palaeoenvironmental evolution, in the Portuguese NW, during the Holocene
Maria Isabel dos Santos Rosa Caetano Alves
Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências (ADFCUP/FCUP/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109810/2009

PHYTAS: The role of plants in Arsenic biogeochemical cycling in salt marshes: identifying candidates for phytoremediation
Etelvina Figueira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109870/2009

An environmental and health cause-effect framework for uncovering links between environmental stressors and human health
Maria Luz Costa Pereira Mathias
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109888/2009

Development of an analytical strategy for monitoring nanoparticles in aerosols (ANANASOL)
Teresa Alexandra Peixoto Rocha Santos
Instituto Piaget, Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento Humano, Integral e Ecológico CRL (IPiaget)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109922/2009

IN VITRO ANIMAL SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMONITORIZATION - The Use of Physiological/Biochemical and Genotoxic Responses of Fish Cell Culture
MARIA ANA DIAS MONTEIRO SANTOS
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/109996/2009

ESTREMAQUA - Origin, development and protection of Cl- and SO4-rich thermo-mineral water resources, with a special emphasis on the Estremadura region, Portugal
Hermanus Gerardus Maria Eggenkamp
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110031/2009

ACUTEALGATOX - Development of multipoint-target acute ecotoxicity microscale test using the alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata
Eduardo Jorge Valente Soares
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP/IPP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110061/2009

Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Atmospheric Crude Oil Distillation Units in the Refinery Sector: Analysing Scenarios of Pollution Reduction
Belmira de Almeida Ferreira Neto
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110137/2009

Impact of climate change on estuarine bivalves: a test for two commercially important species, the cockle Cerastoderma edule (L.) and the peppery furrow shell Scrobicularia plana (da Costa)
Joana Costa Vilhena de Bessa Campos
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110187/2009

Carofuel - New process for a sustainable microbial biodiesel production: The yeast Rhodotorula glutinis biorefinary as a source of biodiesel, carotenoids and biogas.
MARIA TERESA SARAIVA LOPES DA SILVA
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110234/2009

CleanYeast: Using waste glycerol biodiesel derived for the synthesis of high-value compounds
Odilia Queiros
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, CRL (CESPU)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110259/2009

MUST - Migrations and Urban Sustainable Transformations
Francisco Paulo Viana Lima da Costa
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110267/2009

Evaluation study for the definition of the decisive socio-economic, demographic and ethnic-cultural factors influencing domestic waste generation in Portuguese urban centres.
Viriato Sérgio de Almeida Semião
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110320/2009

Reproductive effects of the natural toxin, microcystin-LR, in fish. An environmental concern?
Joana Fernades da Fonseca da Costa Martins Osswald
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110337/2009

BIONANOMINE: Bio-synthesis of nanosized semiconductors using mine wastes as material sources and environmentally friendly applications
Maria Clara Semedo da Silva Costa
Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110465/2009

BioLis - Modelling biodiversity and its perception in urban green areas
Maria Luz Costa Pereira Mathias
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110595/2009

Environmental risk assessment of metals: tools for evaluating bioavailability in the aquatic systems
Rute Isabel Ferreira Domingos
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110598/2009

POLYBIO - BIOMASS POLYPHENOLS FOR NICHE MARKETS: AN INTEGRATED BIOREFINERY CONCEPT
Maria Luisa de Bivar Weinholtz Roseiro
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110622/2009

ProTEoME - PROteomic Tools to assess Endocrine disruptiOn Mechanisms
Marco Lemos
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110740/2009

Halophyte plants and associated endophytic bacteria for efficient Hg phytoremediation at Ria de Aveiro, Portugal
Maria Celeste Pereira Dias
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110742/2009

REsilience and STAbility of constructed wetlands for wastewater and sludge treatment- RESTA project
Ana Galvão
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110765/2009

Study of UV-filters degradation products in swimming pools and development of technological strategies to minimize the formation of toxic products.
José Manuel Sousa Lobo
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto (FF/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110797/2009

Validation of ecological flow regimes in riparian ecosystems by means of biological indicators. Referential for monitoring the climate change impacts(BRYO-ECO-VAL)
Maria Manuela Pinheiro Sim-Sim
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110840/2009

ISOMET- Isotopic geochemistry of transition elements, a new tool for environmental assessment. Application in abandoned mining areas.
Fátima Alexandra REMIZ PEREIRA AFRICANO
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110924/2009

Ecological dimension of antibiotic resistance in natural freshwater reservoirs
Manuela Caniça
Pró-INSA, Associação para a Promoção da Investigação em Saúde (Pró-INSA/INSARJ)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110992/2009

Ecosystem-level impacts of a non-indigenous invasive species
Ronaldo Gomes de Sousa
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111030/2009

Study of workers health effects to nanoparticulate emitted in indoor environments
João Fernando Pereira Gomes
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111143/2009

CLIVAGE- Climate Variability and Changes Adaptation Strategies for Small Islands
Fernando Francisco Machado Veloso Gomes
Universidade dos Açores (UAçores)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111144/2009

Biocatalytic reactions for phenolic compounds degradation in ionic liquids by free and immobilized enzyme: from enzyme production to application
Ana Paula Mora Tavares
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111181/2009

NITROrigin- Utilização de métodos isotópicos e químicos na avaliação da degradação dos recursos hídricos através de contaminação por nitratos-Região de Aveiro
Paula Galego Fernandes
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111207/2009

Application of micro and nano particles for sustainable remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater (SOILWAT_REM)
Cláudia Maria Batista Lopes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111213/2009

MODELFISH-Modeling Feed Intake Regulation as a Tool for Waste Management in Fish Production
Rodrigo Ozorio
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111234/2009

Acidification of wastes from dairy industries in intermittent UASB reactors for the production of biopolymers
Maria Helena Gomes de Almeida Gonçalves Nadais
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111301/2009

CarbSeq: Carbon sequestration in Mediterranean shrublands
Maria da Conceição Brálio de Brito Caldeira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111317/2009

TerbAzineBiorem - Studies on the efficacy and scale-up of bioremediation strategies for soils contaminated with the herbicide terbuthylazine.
Ana Cristina Anjinho Madeira Viegas
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111349/2009

Consequences of past and present climatic changes on biodiversity patterns of peat-rich environments: from genes to communities
Carlos Neto
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111433/2009

HIFENS - Historical Information for Environmental Sciences
João Manuel Alveirinho Dias
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111439/2009

New Green Technologies for Environmental Analysis. Application to monitoring priority pollutants in water systems
José Manuel Florêncio Nogueira
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111453/2009

Management of whey wastewater from small and medium-scale cheese making plants
Maria de Fátima Nunes de Carvalho
Instituto Politécnico de Beja (IPBeja)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111457/2009

Wildlife corridors: Spatial modelling of human pressure and its usefulness for Iberian Wolf conservation
Ana Luisa Alves Teixeira Gomes da Cruz
Direção-Geral do Território (DGT)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111466/2009

EUNIPINE - Making biomonitoring by different pine species uniform - an European approach for PAHs and PBDEs
Nuno Miguel Ratola Neto
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111487/2009

Late Holocene Evolution of the South Shetlands Permafrost Environment - Maritime Antarctic (HOLOANTAR)
Marc Oliva
Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT/Ulisboa/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111557/2009

Effects of slaking of a polluted soil by sewage sludge on the fate of metal-associated C and its bioavailability
Franklin Gerardo Ojeda Castro
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111657/2009

Use of biogas through anaerobic digestion forest subject to pre-enzyme treatment
Nuno Paulo Correia e Afonso Moreira
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111718/2009

Environmental Dosimetry of Soils and Sediments - DOSIMSS
Christopher Ian Burbidge
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111786/2009

Winerysolar - Winery wastewater treatment by combined anaerobic and solar AOP processes
José Alcides Silvestre Peres
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111887/2009

PROLEATHER: Proteases for a greener leather tanning.
Maria Emilia Lima Costa
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111920/2009

Zebrafish embryo bioassay as a tool to assess the influence of environmental factors on pollutants toxicity- ZEBRATool
Inês Domingues
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111936/2009

BioPlatinum - Biogeochemistry of platinum: environmental and economic implications
Paulo Favas
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111942/2009

Sealing landfill solid waste with sludge from mining and manufacturing of carbonate and siliceous dimension stones and terra rossa
Ruben Sílvio Varela dos Santos Martins
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111987/2009

AirInRoute: Daily route to indoor contaminants
Susana Marta Lopes Almeida
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111989/2009

Speciation of Sb, Se and Hg in tolerant plants in mining contaminated areas: uptake mechanism and phytoremediation potential
Md Anawar Hossain
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111998/2009

Metallic nanoparticles in the environment: dynamic speciation and toxicology
Rute Isabel Ferreira Domingos
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112024/2009

Plants as bioindicators of heavy metal soil contamination: evaluation, selection and application in environmental monitoring and phytoremediation
Maria Fernanda da Silva Fidalgo Ferro de Beça
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112032/2009

How "green" is a constructed wetland?
Susete Maria Martins Dias
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112086/2009

OptSustPro: Optimal Design & Operation of Sustainable Processes
Pedro Miguel Gil de Castro
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112162/2009

SubLink: Linking subcellular metal distribution to adverse effects in natural metal-exposed soil populations
Marta Sofia Soares Craveiro Alves Monteiro dos Santos
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112188/2009

Selective Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from Hazardous Zinc-containing residues - HYDROZINC
Fernanda Maria Ramos da Cruz Margarido
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112192/2009

Integrated assessment of greenhouse gases mitigation options and air quality - MitigAIR
Ana Cristina Caldeira da Silva Gouveia Carvalho
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112209/2009

Identifying candidate loci for plant metal hyperaccumulation adaptations using landscape genomics
Helena Cotrim
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112242/2009

Treatment of the Waste Water Treatment Plant´s Feedstocks Contaminated by Ecotoxic Byproducts due to the use of Triclosan
Svitlana Lyubchyk
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112265/2009

SEA shake-up - Strategic Environmental Assessment: challenges and perspectives
Paulo Pinho
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112268/2009

Study and Development of High Performance Fibre Optic Sensing Platforms for Environment Monitoring
José Luís Santos
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto/FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112281/2009

Size distribution of primary and secondary carbonaceous aerosols (CARBOSIZE)
Célia dos Anjos Alves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112295/2009

G-WET: Application of a new generation of waste-based Geopolymeric artificial aggregates in constructed WETlands for wastewater treatment
Antonio Joao Carvalho de Albuquerque
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112316/2009

Environmental Impact of the Pinewood Nematode - Forest Fires Perspective
António Rui de Almeida Figueiredo
Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial (ADAI)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112342/2009

Endocrine disruptors and pesticides environmental pollution. An integrated risk analysis approach.
Valentina Maria Fernandes Domingues
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112374/2009

REGENERATION : REsponses of Daphnia magna exposed to stressors throughout GENERATIONs
Susana Patrícia Mendes Loureiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112394/2009

Technological Approach for Road Runoff Waters Pollution Minimization - Priority Pollutants Monitorization and Treatment (POTRAFFIC)
Isabel Paula Lopes Braz
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (IPV)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112418/2009

Environmental impact and natural attenuation processes in abandoned scrapyards of discarded vehicles
Teresa Valente
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112451/2009

Refinement of fingerprinting tools for the characterisation of nonindustrial urban inhalation exposures: Sustainable teaching
marco diogo richter gomes da silva
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112468/2009

Waste of biodiesel Industry: Valorisation into bio-adittive fuel
José Eduardo Castanheiro
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112470/2009

QUANTEX - Quantification of traffic related human exposure in urban areas
Oxana Tchepel
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112521/2009

Bioremediation of Residues from Biocrude Production
Paulo Alexandre Costa Lemos
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCTUNL/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112522/2009

SORELHO - Bio-transformation of whey waste into bioplastic using new materials
José Carlos Pereira Roseiro
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112551/2009

Development of Molecular Ecological Tools for Monitoring In Situ Bioremediation at Mixed Chlorinated Solvent Contaminated Sites
Anthony Steven Danko
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112554/2009

Insights into the Biodegradation of Ethylene Dibromide (1,2-dibromoethane)
Anthony Steven Danko
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112572/2009

A Novel Strategy for Waste Minimisation and Extending Lifetime of Polymeric Membranes in Water Treatment Processes
Svetlozar Gueorguiev VELIZAROV
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112575/2009

Impact of wildfires on summer pollution episodes and atmospheric photochemistry, in a Global Change context. (PHOTOFIRE)
Margarita Guennadievna Evtyugina
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112576/2009

HORIZON-Horizontal gene pool from estuarine aquatic systems - the surface microlayer and the water column
Cláudia Oliveira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112591/2009

Emissões gasosas derivadas da queima residencial e agrícola (GEMAR)
Margarita Guennadievna Evtyugina
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112593/2009

EnvBioSys - Environmental assessment of biofuel systems - an extended framework to include the effects of land use change and address uncertainty
Ana Cláudia Relvas Vieira Dias
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112620/2009

COMETAS- Metals and arsenic in soils around abandoned mining areas. Assessing their pathways and human health impact.
Fátima Alexandra REMIZ PEREIRA AFRICANO
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112625/2009

Improving Senegalese sole production: optimizing diet utilization for an environmental sustainable production
Paula Cristina Enes Oliveira da Silva
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112638/2009

Sustainable management of laboratory chemicals and wastes
Florinda Figueiredo Martins
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112651/2009

REMOPHARVET - Removal of veterinary drugs from wastewater treatment plants effluents
Marisa Almeida
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112664/2009

Characterization of the risk of vector-borne pathogens along the flyway in inland wintering waders
Luisa Cristina Gouveia Mendes
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112677/2009

Modeling the fate of agrochemicals in soil and groundwater as a function of intrinsic and specific variables (Acronym: FATE)
Tibor Yvan Stigter
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112691/2009

Landfill leachate treatment in WWTPs - study of heavy metals behaviour
Manuel José Matos
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL/IPL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112739/2009

HIGHRISK- Ecological risk of anthropogenic contaminants to high altitude aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
Isabel Maria Cunha Antunes Lopes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112740/2009

Integrated approach for the ecological risk assessment of realistic pesticide mixtures in aquatic ecosystems - RiskPestMix
Maria José Antão Pais de Almeida Cerejeira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112759/2009

ResOrgRisk - Environmental risk assessment of the use of organic residues as soil amendments
Paula Maria da Luz Figueiredo de Alvarenga
Instituto Politécnico de Beja (IPBeja)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112803/2009

PROTEGELA-Thermal processing for the management of sludge from paper industry
Marta Otero
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112808/2009

Management of wetland ecosystems: the need of an integrative approach
Paula Cristina de Oliveira Castro
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112818/2009

PARTICOMB - Wood burning contribution to the ambient aerosol in Portugal
Alexandre Filipe Fernandes Caseiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112930/2009

REFHAIR -Reference values for chemical elements in human scalp hair from non-contaminated individuals
Sara Cristina Ferreira Marques Antunes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112961/2009

AIRFORMA - AIR Quality Assessment and FORecast for MAdeira Island
Joana Cardoso Ferreira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113016/2009

Sea-surface microlayer contribution to marine aerosols (AERO-SEA)
Célia dos Anjos Alves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113017/2009

Sediment Quality Index of West Atlantic Estuaries of Portugal: Anthropogenic impact and environmental implications
José María de la Rosa Arranz
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113022/2009

Rehabilitation of land ecosystems degraded by mining activities - RETERDAM
Amarilis Paula Alberti de Varennes e Mendonça
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113086/2009

Deposition of photocatalytic layers in common substrates by simple techniques
Maria Paula da Silva Seabra
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113087/2009

Linking biomarkers and ecological relevant endpoints in zebrafish larvae- LIBERTEZ
Inês Domingues
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113088/2009

RAMIRAGES: Rain Regional Changes on River Mira Basin (SW Portugal)
António Alves da Silva
Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113137/2009

Can the carbon and nitrogen linkage patterns reveal the origin of the water-soluble organic matter in atmospheric aerosols?
REGINA MARIA BRANDÃO DE OLIVEIRA DUARTE
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113138/2009

“Minimise-NOW”: Minimising Nitrous Oxide emissions from Wastewater treatment systems
Adrian Oehmen
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113203/2009

AQUABIOTICS- Remediation and prevention of aqueous matrices contamination with antibiotics
Lúcia Maria da Silveira Santos
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113239/2009

Ecological effects of UV-B radiations on aquatic macroinvertebrates assessed at different levels of biological organization
Cristina Canhoto
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113275/2009

Non-Biodegradable Wastewaters Treatment using Solar-Assisted Advanced Oxidation Processes
LUÍS MIGUEL PALMA MADEIRA
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113283/2009

POLISTO: Particulate air pOllution in LIsbon and building STOne decay
Nicola Schiavon
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113386/2009

Sustainable chemical laboratories - energy optimization using standard domotic infrastructures in indoor environment quality control
Manuel Carlos Malheiro de Carvalho Felgueiras
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP/IPP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113391/2009

WATGOLF-Water management in golf courses aiming to reduce agrochemical impacts in groundwater
Maria do Rosário da Conceição Cameira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113394/2009

Species Performance Modeling Algorithm (S-PerforMA)
Jorge Orestes Lasbarrères Cerdeira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113397/2009

Optimal management of coastal aquifers under conditions of potential seawater intrusion
João Paulo de Cárcomo Lobo Ferreira
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, I.P. (LNEC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113425/2009

Determination of probable localization of intentional/accidental contamination in drinking-water distribution systems
Fernando Martins
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113442/2009

FatYDiesel: Metabolic engineering of yeast fatty acids synthesis for biodiesel production
Björn Fredrik Johansson
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113455/2009

Forest fire emissions in the air quality forecast over Portugal
Maria Alexandra Castelo Sobral Monteiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113469/2009

PAC:MAN - Pollution accidents in coastal areas: a Risk management system
Anabela Oliveira
Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, I.P. (LNEC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113507/2009

OASIS - Environmental flows and the functional diversity of riparian forests in semi-arid regions
Francisca Constança Frutuoso de Aguiar
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113556/2009

Environmental radon exposure and human health risk
Luis Filipe dos Santos Garcia Peralta
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113560/2009

Habitat use and adaptive management of a marine protected area
Karim Erzini
Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113601/2009

Functionalisation of TiO2-based thin films for degradation of cyanobacterias and cyanotoxins in water resources
Susana Isabel dos Santos Silva Sério Venceslau
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCTUNL/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113639/2009

Evaluation of climate changes impacts on irrigated systems and definition of adaptation measures.
José Luis Monteiro Teixeira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113655/2009

Understanding PCP degradation metabolism by selected Ascomycota strains - a functional multidisciplinary analysis
CRISTINA SILVA PEREIRA
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113661/2009

BESS- BUSINESS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND STRATEGIES
Maria do Rosario Partidario
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113665/2009

“Are fish on antidepressants”? Antidepressants environmental occurrence in two Portuguese geographic regions and biological effects in Dicentrarchus labrax (sea bass).
Angelina Lopes Simões Pena
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113702/2009

Integrated biogeochemical assessment of soil functioning during pentachlorophenol biotic decay
CRISTINA SILVA PEREIRA
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113776/2009

AEROGEN - Identification Study of the Primary Biogenic Aerosol
Alexandre Filipe Fernandes Caseiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113783/2009

EFOCOS - ENERGY FLUXES OVER THREE DIFFERENT TREE COVERS EVALUATED BY SCINTILLOMETRY
Fernanda Maria dos Reis Torroaes Valente
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113790/2009

Risk assessment of hospital activity associated spreading of antibiotic resistance to the environment
Manuela Caniça
Pró-INSA, Associação para a Promoção da Investigação em Saúde (Pró-INSA/INSARJ)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113798/2009

BIOPOWAR - Microbial diversity and biodegradative potential towards aromatic compounds in olive mill wastewaters
Isabel Henriques
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113826/2009

(NANOscreen) Toxicity mechanisms of NANOmaterials in aquatic and terrestrial non-target organisms
Joana Luísa Lourenço Estevinho Pereira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113840/2009

DYNAMICS OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE BETWEEN THE HOSPITAL AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Célia Maria Manaia Rodrigues
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113857/2009

An integrated approach for sustainable miombo woodlands management in Niassa National Reserve, northern Mozambique: fires and biodiversity
Ana Isabel Faria Ribeiro
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical,I.P. (IICT) (IICT/MNE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113928/2009

EuroLifeNet-PM: Participatory Methodology for Assessment of Personal Exposure to PM2.5
Pedro Manuel Barbosa Ferraz de Abreu
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP/Ulisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113981/2009

Legume-Rhizobium symbioses and rhizospheric bacteria as a tool for the rehabilitation of contaminated soils
Isabel Maria da Silva Videira e Castro Viana
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, I.P. (INRB)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114018/2009

Solid state fermentation of wastes from olive processing (SSFwaste)
Isabel Maria Pires Belo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114058/2009

SEPA - Environment Policies Simulation and Rehearsal - An Application to the Emissions Reduction Problem
João Carlos Balsa da Silva
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114086/2009

Disturbunces in the water and carbon cycles in an Eucalyptus forest
GABRIEL PAULO ALCÂNTARA PITA
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114106/2009

Carbon fluxes in a near shore environment: testing the "Continental shelf pump hypothesis"(CFLUX)
Pedro Manuel Silva Duarte
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114110/2009

Flouride in groundwater and public drinking water and possible effects on human health (FluorideWater)
Maria Manuela Malhado Simões Ribeiro
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCTUNL/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114124/2009

VolfImpact - assessment of the impact of contamination of humans and autochthonous species by wolfram ore
Bruno André Fernandes de Jesus da Silva Nunes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114136/2009

UMICRO-Linking Geochemical Processes with Microbial Analysis in Uranium Mines
Ana Paula Kuan Yon Chung
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114141/2009

ENVOlive - Environmental effects of intensive and hyper-intensive olive grove growing in the south of Portugal
Maria Antónia Pacheco Ilhéu
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114155/2009

SoilScan - New approaches for analytical assays using advanced flow techniques in monitoring plant-soil interactions
João Luís Machado dos Santos
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114168/2009

Mechanisms of osmoregulatory impairment by cadmium in fish
Sandra Mariza Veiga Monteiro
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114202/2009

Automated screening methodologies for the rapid assessment of ionic liquids (eco)toxicity and biodegradability
Maria Lúcia Marques Ferreira de Sousa Saraiva
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114224/2009

Flow methodologies for the optimization and monitoring of the removal of emerging contaminants from waters
Paula Cristina de Azevedo Gomes Pinto
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114365/2009

DEMOCON - Expedite monitoring and control of decentralized wastewater treatment plants
Helena Maria Rodrigues Vasconcelos Pinheiro
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114373/2009

RH+: The role of history of the environment as interface between science and society
Lia Maldonado Teles de Vasconcelos
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114375/2009

Secondary organic aerosols, a source of carbon in the atmosphere: unravelling formation mechanisms, assessed by spectroscopic and computational techniques
Pedro Miguel Duarte Vaz
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114449/2009

Supramolecular Organic Structures for Sensing Agriculture contaminants
Maria de Fátima Guerreiro da Silva Campos Raposo
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCTUNL/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114452/2009

Role of psychopharmaceuticals in the environment (ROPE)
Valdemar Inocêncio Esteves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114463/2009

Cost benefit of Riverbank filtration system as a management toll for water treatment supply in Mediterranean regions: case study in south of Portugal
Maria Manuela Queiroz Martins Mantero Morais
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114471/2009

Photodegradation of emerging contaminants from personal care products: the role of humic substances
MARIA EDUARDA BASTOS HENRIQUES DOS SANTOS
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114493/2009

Atmospheric and Nanoparticles Biomonitoring using Lepidoptera
Miguel Adrião Mateus dos Reis
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114506/2009

Ecohydrodynamical Approach towards Estuary Preservation using Flow Regulation and System Health Indicators (ESPRI)
Garel Erwan
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114509/2009

Development of recombinant microorganisms for the production of bioethanol from agricultural residues and municipal solid waste
Aladje Balde
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114522/2009

Biodiversity Monitoring in Environmental Assessments - MoBiA
Henrique Pereira
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114533/2009

Managing invasive plant species in Portugal: from prevention to biocontrol. The case study of Acacia longifolia (INVADER)
Elisabete Maria Duarte Canas Marchante
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114536/2009

Ecological effects of flow regulation on fish communities in Portuguese rivers - ECOFLOW
Bernardo Silva Ruivo Quintella
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114565/2009

WASTEMET - Recovery of metals by reduction and gasification of wastes
Fernando Antonio Portela de Sousa Castro
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114588/2009

Recovery of Sludge from Anaerobic Digestion
Domingas do Rosario Verissimo Jacinto Tavares de Oliveira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114616/2009

SSV-METALS - Derivation/adjustment of European and national Soil Screening Values for METALS and Metallois
Ruth Maria de Oliveira Pereira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114645/2009

NANOSOIL - NANOmateriais em SOLos: avaliação dos riscos para os ecossistemas terrestres
Ruth Maria de Oliveira Pereira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114658/2009

BotryFuelPharm - Botryococcus braunii as a source of biofuel and high added-value bioactive compounds
Maria Beatriz Pinto Pereira Palma Nobre
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114683/2009

EnergIA - Operational forecasting system for Indoor Air quality and Energy consumption in natural ventilated buildings
Ana Margarida Lobo Lourenco da Costa
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114702/2009

Inactivation of microorganisms in hospital wastewaters by a technique of low potential environmental impact.
Maria da Graça de Pinho Morgado Silva Neves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114728/2009

PABioGen - Pollution assessment in the northern littoral of Portugal using a biochemical and genetic toolbox
Bruno André Fernandes de Jesus da Silva Nunes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114730/2009

INTER-OMW. Olive mill wastewater as a sustainable energy resource: intermittent operation of anaerobic hybrid reactors
Isabel Paula Ramos Marques
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114772/2009

PHARMAPOR - Contamination mapping of four relevant pharmaceuticals of chronic consumption in Portugal and environmental risk evaluation
Angelina Lopes Simões Pena
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114929/2009

Thermodynamic Property Data of Terpenes and Terpenoids as Important Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in the Environment
Bernd Schröder
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114947/2009

IMFOCOS - Assessment of the impact of controlled fires in forest soils
Ana Cristina Meira da Silva e Castro
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114959/2009

GRINDOOR - Pollutants removal from indoor atmospheres trough phytoremediation by vascular plants
Gabriela Ventura Alves da Silva
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114983/2009

Screening wastes for production of ecomaterials
Ana Teresa Macas Lima
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115090/2009

MOnitoring, Modelling and wARning of hydrogen sulfide in sewer systems - MOMAR Project
José Matos
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115113/2009

BIOVOC -Two-phase partitioning bioreactors for volatil organic compounds biodegradation
Isabel Maria Pires Belo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115128/2009

Comparative study of the exposure to pollutants in the road and rail accesses to Lisbon- ExPoLis
Cristina Maria Roque Ramiro de Oliveira
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115154/2009

Valorisation of feathers (a waste from the poultry industry) to water and effluents treatment
Olga Manuela Matos de Freitas
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115162/2009

SuperMullet - Impacts of anthropogenic pollution load on grey mullet populations (Mugil cephalus) in North Portugal - focussing on genetic diversity and on pollution-induced selection of allelic variants
Ralph Urbatzka
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115208/2009

NANOfocus: Focus on size and shapes of NANOparticles: modelling exposure and toxicity.
Mónica João Barros Amorim
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115218/2009

Alternative method for treatment hospital residues - energy valorization
Rui Manuel Pereira Ruivo
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115247/2009

Attacking pollution with an integrated system (APIS)
Hugh Douglas Burrows
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115275/2009

Development of an Integrated Process for Valorisation, Treatment and Management of Wastes Generated from Olive Oil Production
Helder Teixeira Gomes
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPBragança)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115296/2009

Biodegradable and biocompatible chelating agents immobilized on filtering membranes for water cleansing systems
MARIA TERESA BARROS DA SILVA
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115357/2009

Study of a liquid chamber smart window to improve building energy efficiency and shading with visibility
Jose Roberto Tinoco Cavalheiro
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115359/2009

Strategies to mitigate urban flash floods in a global change context: URBHI-II
António José Dinis Ferreira
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (IPC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115387/2009

Heavy Metals Sensors for in-situ, Online Water Quality Monitoring Systems
Pedro Manuel Brito Silva Girão
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115476/2009

Microbial Biodiesel: Comparison of Cyanobacteria and Algae Performances as Raw Materials
Maria da Conceição Machado Alvim Ferraz
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115504/2009

Removal of As(V), Cr(VI) and Sb(V) from aqueous solutions by seaweed biosorbents.
Cidália Maria de Sousa Botelho
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115523/2009

Global warming and endocrine disrupting chemicals: Is there a potential for cumulative disrupting effects in fish populations?
Miguel Santos
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115547/2009

PREDICT - Predicting Regional Ecological Diversity and Integrity for Inland Contexts based on Long-Term Monitoring data
João Alexandre Ferreira Abel dos Santos Cabral
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115620/2009

MINDEFUL - Microbial INDicators of Ecosystem FUnctioning in Lotic waters. An integrated set of biomonitoring tools.
João Luís Teixeira Pestana
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115710/2009

The phytosphere of salt-marsh plants: an underexplored microbial hot-spot
Artur Jorge da Costa Peixoto Alves
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115713/2009

An Azorean furnace of evolution: honing molecular-genetic tools for phylogeography and ecotoxicogenomics in a pantropical sentinel inhabiting multi-stressor volcanic soil
Armindo dos Santos Rodrigues
Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, FP (FGF)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115732/2009

Sustainability Evaluation in Higher Education Institutions
MARIA ANTÓNIA DA SILVA LOPES E CARRAVILLA
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115756/2009

VULMED- Vulnerability of Mediterranean agroforestry systems under climate change: a modelling assessment
Cathy Beatrice Kurz Besson
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115762/2009

Impounded loTic ecoSystems: Determining the effect of low-heAd daMs (<10m) oN Ecological function and bioDiversity (ITS DAMNED)
kieran monaghan
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115780/2009

Waste collection point sensorization for recollection optimization
Manuel Joaquim Bastos Marques
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto/FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115798/2009

PLANTA - Effect of salt-marsh plants on mercury methylation, transport and volatilization to the atmosphere
João Alfredo Vieira Canário
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115845/2009

SuCInt - Sustainable Consumption Policy-Science-Society Interfaces
Nuno Videira
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115890/2009

Effects of CLIMATE change on the photochemistry, diversity and productivity of MicroPhytoBenthos (MPBCLIMATE)
Paulo Jorge Sousa Dias Cartaxana
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115893/2009

Odor and VOC removal in the Biological Plate Tower - VocOdorBPT
João Monteiro Peixoto
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115933/2009

Instrumental Aerosols Speciation
Miguel Adrião Mateus dos Reis
Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115982/2009

Hg SMEL - Sediment MErcury Legacy: contribution to the Mercury Global Cycle
Sisenando Nogueira de Abreu
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116010/2009

Evaluation of Guadiana wetland nursery function using advanced modelling techniques
Natasa Atanasova
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116029/2009

Genomics of venomous metazoans: deciphering the evolution of natural venoms and the molecular mechanisms of natural venom-resistance
Agostinho Antunes
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116068/2009

Biosorption and Biodegradation of Organic Solvents in Aqueous Systems
Maria Teresa de Jesus Simões Campos Tavares
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116128/2009

Types of continuous precipitation records: which effects for the statistical characterization of extremes?
Isabel Pedroso de Lima
IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116158/2009

BIONATIC: Biological and Natural Substrates for Diffuse pollution Control
Fernanda Maria Fraga Mimoso Gouveia e Cassio
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116236/2009

Environmental Sensors
Maria Amélia Lemos
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116261/2009

High rate anaerobic bioreactors catalyzed by carbon materials: development and demonstration of a new generation of electron shuttles for the degradation of environmental xenobiotics
Luciana José Ribeiro Pereira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116263/2009

CLICFORECO - Developing robust products for assessing climate change impacts ana adaptation in estuarines and coastal zones
Henrique Manuel da Mota dos Santos Coelho
COFAC, Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, CRL (COFAC)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/109847/2009

Carbon Biogeochemistry of Guadiana Estuary (CARBIO): Anthropogenic & Climatic perturbations.
Parli Venkateswaran Bhaskar
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/109863/2009

TEMPER - Phenotypic plasticity in natural populations of a cladoceran species from polluted and non-polluted environments
Laura Guimarães
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/110109/2009

Health Impacts of Climate Change Responses in Portugal (HEALTH CLEAR)
Elsa Maria Vila Maior Casimiro
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/110182/2009

Forecasting the interplays of climate change and exotic invasions in freshwaters
Maria João Carvalho Mendes Cruz
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/110755/2009

PHYLOECOS - Phylogeography and Ecological Modelling for Predicting Vertebrate Climatic Refugia in the Sahara
José Carlos Alcobia Rogado de Brito
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111220/2009

Impact of environmental changes of CO2 and temperature in Coffea sp. - Identification and characterization of physiological, biochemical and molecular tolerance mechanisms
José Domingos Cochicho Ramalho
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical,I.P. (IICT) (IICT/MNE)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111474/2009

CLIMLIS - Climate Change in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Impacts and Collaborative Policy Responses
João Howell Pato
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111785/2009

DECOUPLING: climatic vs anthropogenic constrains - insights into marine benthic ecosystems' resilience
Maria Helena Fortunato Martins
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111975/2009

GHOMO - Geostatistical Homogenization of Climate Data
AMÍLCAR DE OLIVEIRA SOARES
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112111/2009

Climate Change impacts on Halophyte Ecophysiology, Molecular and Interspecific-Relantionships (HEMIR)
Maria Isabel Violante Caçador
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112154/2009

PlankTEL. Long term PLANKton studies in the Tagus Estuary and Lisbon bay - an insight into Global Change
ANTÓNIO MIGUEL PIECHO DE ALMEIDA SANTOS
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, I.P. (INRB)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112189/2009

Past Analogs for Future Climate: tomorrow's predictions from North Pacific Ocean Pleistocene/Pliocene reconstructions
Fatima Abrantes
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112412/2009

AdaPT - ADAPTing Key Economic Sectors to Climate Change - Integrated assessment of vulnerabilities and cost-effective adaptation
Julia Seixas
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112714/2009

Stable carbon isotope fractionation mechanisms in microbial methanogenesis: insights from anaerobic chemostat cultures
Marianne Nuzzo
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112735/2009

Responses of phytoplankton communities from the Subtropical North Atlantic Gyre to increasing CO2 concentrations and consequent carbonate chemistry changes in the ocean - Azores (ROPICO2)
Joana Barcelos e Ramos
Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, FP (FGF)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/113035/2009

FIREVOLUTION - Coupling the dynamics of vegetation, forest fire activity and air quality under a changing climate
Jorge Humberto Melo Rosa Amorim
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/113367/2009

Climate Influence on Northwestern Iberian Society during the Late Holocene
CHANNARAYAPATTANA NARASIMHAMURTHY PRABHU
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114088/2009

MARGINS - Genetic fingerprint of climate change impact in butterflies
Ana Rita Correia de Freitas Castilho da Costa
Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114301/2009

Cryptoclimate-Portugal. Cryptogamics (bryophytes and lichens) as sensors of general and regional climatic change in Portugal
Cecília Loff Pereira Sergio da Costa Gomes
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114512/2009

Remote sensing of phytoplankton variability patterns off South-Western Iberia: a sentinel for climate change? (PHYTOCLIMA)
Ana Maria Branco Barbosa
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114648/2009

Arctic phytoplankton communities: comparative metatranscriptomics in a rapidly changing environment
Ana Alexandra Pedrosa Ramos
Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114711/2009

Temporal and spatial variation in the distribution of unburned carbon, and major and minor elements in fly ash from Sines (Portugal) thermoelectric power plant
Bruno Valentim
Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências (ADFCUP/FCUP/UP)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114879/2009

Climate Impact on Building Cooling Systems - CIBLE
Pedro Soares
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/115520/2009

Modelling urban air quality management strategies in the context of climate change (URBAIR)
Helena Margarida Gonçalves de Oliveira Martins
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/115725/2009

IDIWAMA - Integrated dry island water management
Daniela Valente Simoes dos Santos
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (IPC)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/115760/2009

MORECLASS - MOdelling the RElationships between Climate and Lakes. Alqueva caSe Study
Rui Paulo Vasco Salgado
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110088/2009

Degradation of organic pollutants by catalytic wet peroxide oxidation using carbon materials
Helder Teixeira Gomes
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPBragança)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/110331/2009

SIGNAL - Effects of pollution on estuarine zooplankton-zooplanktivorous fish ecological interactions in relation to climate changes
Lucia Maria das Candeias Guilhermino
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111206/2009

Potential environmental-friendly chelating agents for agriculture and industrial practices
Helena Maria Vieira Monteiro Soares
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111316/2009

ECOBIOTEC - Ecobiotechnology based on the use of mixed microbial consortium producing PHA from waste carbon sources
MARIA ISABEL APARÍCIO PAULO FERNANDES CAPELA
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/111675/2009

Mediterranean climate control on tree-ring growth dynamics: towards a mechanistic model and its applications in dendroclimatology (ONE RING)
Maria Cristina Amaral Penas Nabais dos Santos
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112424/2009

AquaMonitor - Optical fiber sensors for water quality monitoring applied to the determination of dissolved carbon dioxide in aquaculture.
Pedro Alberto da Silva Jorge
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto/FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112438/2009

VITAQUA - Climate change: an additional threat to aquatic systems under intensive pressure from agricultural diffuse pollution
Nelson Abrantes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112804/2009

BIO.REM: Integrating multiple toxicological BIOmarkers in a phytoREMemediation assay of Pb and Cd contaminated sites
maria da conceiçáo Lopes Vieira dos Santos
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112841/2009

Carbon4Desulf - Physiological and molecular biology studies of carbon source assimilation by Gordonia alkanivorans strain 1B in the fossil fuels biodesulphurization process
Luís Manuel Gonçalves Alves
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112934/2009

Phage therapy as a low environmental impact alternative to inactive phatogenic bacteria in fishfarming plants.
Maria Adelaide de Pinho Almeida
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112954/2009

SYMBIOALGA- New symbiotic approach for a truly sustainable integrated microalgae production directed to a biorefinery platform
Alberto José Delgado dos Reis
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/112957/2009

Biofuels production by (trans)esterification and hyrogenation of high fatty acid content residues - BIOFFA
Ana Cristina Ramos de Oliveira Justino
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P. (LNEG)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113091/2009

Elimination of micropollutants with antimicrobial activity from wastewaters
Olga Cristina Pastor Nunes
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113515/2009

(CONTROLCLAM) Sustainable approaches for the CONTROL of the invasive Asian CLAM Corbicula fluminea within water-dependent plants
Joana Luísa Lourenço Estevinho Pereira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113649/2009

ASSAY - Assessment of fate and effects of Silver nanoparticleS in Aquatic ecosYstems
ANTÓNIO JOSÉ ARSÉNIA NOGUEIRA
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113746/2009

Development of molecular tools for assessing fungal diversity and activity in freshwaters - FunDiver
Sofia Alexandra Ferreira Duarte
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/113973/2009

NITROTOX - Interference of Metals and PAHs in Nitrate Removal Biological Processes: Denitrification vs Anammox
Catarina Maria Pinto Mora Pinto de Magalhães
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114057/2009

ENGENUR - Definition of new ENdpoints to assess and discriminate GENotoxic effects resulting from environmental exposures to Uranium, Uranium daughter Radionuclides and ionizing radiation in bioindicator species
Sónia Alexandra Leite Velho Mendo Barroso
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114123/2009

Mechanisms of DNA damage induced by pesticides in fish and interference of co-exposure to other contaminants (Acronym: GENOPES)
Mário Guilherme Garcês Pacheco
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/114781/2009

KARSTRISK - Impacts of contamination on karstic groundwater ecosystems
Nelson Abrantes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115304/2009

LESS CORAL: The impact of human settlLEmentS on CORAL reef ecosystems
Cleary Daniel
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/115587/2009

Development of a Methodology to Integrate CC effects in Water Resources Management on a Portuguese River Basin
Rodrigo Jorge Fonseca de Oliveira Maia
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/AAC-AMB/116036/2009

Assessing Biological degradation of Stream ecosysTems Resulting from Abstraction: the impaCt for biodiversiTy and ecOlogical functioN (ABSTRACTION)
Amadeu Mortágua Velho da Maia Soares
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111706/2009

SALTFREE - Prediction of salinisation effects on coastal freshwater and soil ecosystems due to climate changes
Isabel Maria Cunha Antunes Lopes
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/111733/2009

Climate change of precipitation extreme episodes in the Iberian Peninsula and its forcing mechanisms - CLIPE
Alfredo Moreira Caseiro Rocha
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/112936/2009

Sex at the edge: How temperature influences sexual selection
Nuno Miguel Pinto de Sousa Monteiro
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/114031/2009

MATAGRO - Monitoring of Atmospheric Tracers in Antarctica with Ground -based Remote sensing Observations
Daniele Bortoli
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/AAC-CLI/116122/2009

CyanoPrimer - Developing new tools for the early warning of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins
Agostinho Antunes
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)