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

Marine Sciences and Technologies

    Painel de Avaliação da área das Ciências e Tecnologia do Mar - 2009
  • Gwyn Griffiths
  • Stephen John Hawkins
  • Stephen Feist
  • Martin White
  • Tjeerd van Weering
  • Richard Nash
  • Michael Thorndyke
  • Peter H. Burkill
PTDC/MAR/109915/2009

THRESHER: Integrating biology, genetics and tagging studies for the management and conservation of the highly vulnerable big eye thresher shark in the Atlantic Ocean. Rui Pedro Andrade Coelho, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €184,890.

PTDC/MAR/109954/2009

Effects of ocean climate on the macroecology and resilience to disturbances of kelp beds -OCEANKELP. Iacopo Bertocci, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €137,341.

PTDC/MAR/110082/2009

Deepsea foraminifera from the Portuguese Margin - DeepForams. Ana Aranda da Silva, Universidade de Aveiro (UA). €175,460.

PTDC/MAR/110251/2009

Adaptive potential at range edges: testing relationships between fitness-related traits and population structure near ecophysiological limits. Katy Nicastro, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €181,752.

PTDC/MAR/110547/2009

Epigenetic regulation of development and growth in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis)- EPISOLE. Luísa Maria Pinheiro Valente, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €176,173.

PTDC/MAR/110796/2009

IMPROVE- Inner shelf hydrographic and biological processes controlling invertebrate population in the Portuguese coast, using decapods as models. Antonina Maria de Melo dos Santos, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA). €176,506.

PTDC/MAR/111011/2009

Seamount benthic primary production: a new hypothesis to explain abundance and biodiversity over shallow seamounts (GreenMount). Pedro Manuel Silva Duarte, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €168,572.

PTDC/MAR/111223/2009

RAP - Responses to Anthropogenic Perturbations: climatic and nutrient effects on rock pool assemblages. Iacopo Bertocci, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €68,088.

PTDC/MAR/111304/2009

Vital rates of pelagic fish larvae (VITAL). Carla Susana Ferreira Garrido Coelho, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa). €123,328.

PTDC/MAR/111306/2009

TerRiftic - Unraveling melting processes and volcanism on the Terceira Rift, Azores: a melt inclusion and vesicle study. Ana Filipa Alfaia Marques Abraham-james, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa). €159,866.

PTDC/MAR/111537/2009

INPACTAR- Long-term effects of intersexuality and other impacts on populations of Echinogammarus marinus. IRENE ISABEL DA CRUZ MARTINS, Universidade de Coimbra (UC). €168,287.

PTDC/MAR/111749/2009

DEEPFUN- Biodiversity and functioning of the deep-sea hydrothermal field Menez Gwen- a contribution to management policies. Ana Colaço, IMAR - Instituto do Mar (IMAR). €181,992.

PTDC/MAR/111901/2009

BIOCHANGED - Impact of biodiversity evenness changes in the ecosystem functioning of estuaries. Marina Dolbeth, Universidade de Coimbra (UC). €114,385.

PTDC/MAR/112446/2009

COGNAT - Cooperative Gliger Navigation and Acoustic Tomography. Aníbal Castilho Coimbra de Matos, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto/FE/UP). €115,813.

PTDC/MAR/112473/2009

MigROS - The ‘behavioural photoprotection' hypothesis revisited: coupling between vertical migration and photooxidative stress in estuarine microphytobenthos biofilms. João Serôdio, Universidade de Aveiro (UA). €180,204.

PTDC/MAR/112723/2009

AMOX - Relative importance of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers in estuarine ecosystem function: role of environmental controls. Catarina Maria Pinto Mora Pinto de Magalhães, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €94,608.

PTDC/MAR/112792/2009

Waterborne seaweed metabolites as a green solution for antimicrobial therapy in aquaculture. Leonardo Mata, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €108,680.

PTDC/MAR/112992/2009

AQUATOX - Assessment of mineralogenic toxicity of aquatic pollutants. Vincent Laizé, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €112,945.

PTDC/MAR/113435/2009

Benthic Estuarine Barcode(BEstBarcode): Development and application of massively paralelized sequencing for monitoring of estuarine macrobenthic communities. Filipe José Oliveira Costa, Universidade do Minho (UM). €171,462.

PTDC/MAR/113608/2009

Characterization of olfactory plasticity in the European eel. Maria del Mar Huertas Pau, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €140,052.

PTDC/MAR/113786/2009

Diversifying live feed diets for rearing marine fish larvae in semi-intensive systems - DIVERSE. Pedro Marques Pousão Ferreira, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA). €170,236.

PTDC/MAR/113888/2009

TAGUSDELTA - 3D high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of the Tagus Delta - imaging and modeling of tsunami evidence for geological hazards assessment. Pedro Terrinha, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA). €178,263.

PTDC/MAR/113962/2009

SeReZoox - Sexual reproduction of zooxanthellae: an overlooked aspect of coral bleaching? João Serôdio, Universidade de Aveiro (UA). €161,820.

PTDC/MAR/114217/2009

Nutrients and particulate matter dynamics - exchanges between a COAstal LAgoon and the adjacent ocean through a multiple inlet system: the case of Ria Formosa, south of Portugal - COALA. José Manuel Quintela de Brito Jacob, Universidade do Algarve (UAlg). €103,868.

PTDC/MAR/114380/2009

PHYTORIA - Environmental regulation of phytoplankton in the Ria Formosa coastal lagoon. Helena Maria Galvão, Universidade do Algarve (UAlg). €125,536.

PTDC/MAR/114613/2009

Macroalgal biodiversity under a molecular lens - towards a better understanding of North Atlantic biogeography (BIOMACROMOL). Manuela Isabel Parente Cardoso, Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA). €178,686.

PTDC/MAR/114674/2009

Beach to Canyon Head Sedimentary Processes. Rui Taborda, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa). €111,272.

PTDC/MAR/115005/2009

Mapping gene networks in asymmetric head development during flatfish metamorphosis. Deborah Mary Power, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €126,510.

PTDC/MAR/115199/2009

The modulation of retinoid and thyroid signalling pathways by endocrine disrupting chemicals: invertebrate insights. Miguel Santos, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €173,116.

PTDC/MAR/115226/2009

MATRIX: Understanding temperate reef fish connectivity. Rita Alexandra Duarte Borges, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €178,488.

PTDC/MAR/115347/2009

Characterization of the enzyme repertoire involved in the metabolism of toxins and pollutants in marine invertebrates. Rute Andreia Rodrigues da Fonseca, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR). €79,705.

PTDC/MAR/115789/2009

Mäerl calcification, photosynthesis and metabolism in an acidified ocean. João Miguel Sousa da Silva, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMar). €193,027.