
ERC-funded project on Planning for sustainable ocean use in Antarctica under global environmental change @CienciasULisboa | @ERC_Research led by @CFrazaoSantos
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🎙️❄️ Join us on November 4 for a new OCTO webinar on “The Antarctic Ocean Use Survey: A participatory mapping process to engage the Antarctic research community”, presented by @CFrazaoSantos and Peter Menzies! 🌊
Register here👇🏽 octogroup.org/the-antarctic-…
#AntarcticOUS #SeaSketch
🌊🌎Antarctic Ocean Use Survey launched under the ERC-funded project #PLAnT in collaboration with #SeaSketch!🐧
If you are part of the Antarctic research/scientific community, please participate and share! 📚🌐
📍More info at lnkd.in/p/eH7VDxb9
Are you an Antarctic Tourism Operator or Expedition Organisation?
We invite you to take this short 10-15-minute anonymous survey, developed as part of a PhD project in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies at CIÊNCIAS ULisboa and MARE
Survey: forms.gle/ZkfrZg2HNBPt6M1Z9
🌍 Have you ever visited Antarctica as a tourist?
We invite you to take this short 10-12-minute anonymous survey, developed as part of a PhD project in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies at @cienciasulisboa @MAREscience
📝 Survey: forms.gle/P48CLJoYxV13bj9f8
PLAnT project coordinator Catarina Frazão Santos will attend the upcoming Antarctic Treaty meetings (#ATCM) and the CEP/SC-CAMLR joint workshop in Hiroshima, Japan🇯🇵, as part of the Delegation of Portugal, strengthening the link between science and policy🇦🇶ats.aq/devAS/Meetings/Upcomi…
🌊Tomorrow is the Ocean Day at Ciências ULisboa. Ciências ULisboa stands out for its advanced educational programs in the field of Marine Studies. Master students Beatriz Cabral and Julia Werdenig will be presenting PLAnT-related research with two posters!
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📢 Today, @CFrazaoSantos and @Cat_PSantos will present two other oral communications at the Species on the Move 2026, at the Policy Pathways and Conservation Strategies for a Moving Biosphere session!
Looking forward to it!
@SpeciesOnTheMov @MAREscience
📢 Tomorrow, @CFrazaoSantos and @Cat_PSantos will present two oral communications at the Symposium "Megafauna on the Move," as part of the SOTM2026 conference. Additionally, the conference poster session will take place.
@SpeciesOnTheMov @MAREscience @cienciasulisboa
📣 Next week, PLAnT project team will be present at the Species on the Move 2026 (SOTM) international conference, in Taiwan, with several oral communications, posters, and panel discussions. 🌍 speciesonthemove.com/
@SpeciesOnTheMov @MAREscience @cienciasulisboa
🚀MSPglobal has launched a free, self-paced online course on the integration of #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity into MSP. In Module 3, PLAnT's PI @CFrazaoSantos explains how climate-smart MSP recently entered Antarctic governance discussions. More 👉 oceanexpert.org/event/4994
Tomorrow, the “Marine Data for (MSP)" workshop will take place in Brussels (and online), organized by
@CMEMS_EU. PhD student Miguel Fernandes will attend the workshop in-person, representing the #PLAnT project team!
Registration 👉events.marine.copernicus.eu/…
🌊 New Perspective in Nature Reviews Biodiversity proposes four main pathways to aligning climate-smart marine spatial planning (MSP) and ecoscape restoration initiatives to accelerate global biodiversity recovery.
🔗 rdcu.be/eZNzs
The PI of project PLAnT, @CFrazaoSantos, was interviewed by Biosfera for their new episode focused on the cryosphere (Episode 2 | T24 — “Criosfera”).
Watch the full episode here (in Portuguese) 👇
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ERC Project PLAnT retweeted
Today, we conclude our Themed Week with an innovative discovery by Catarina Frazão Santos' team: despite decades of research, Antarctica has never had a formal marine spatial plan.
Find out everything!
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Day 4
Today we highlight the work of Paulo Catry who has been returning annually to the Falkland Islands for over 20 years to study the world's largest population of black-browed albatrosses.
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📸 Photos: Paulo Catry
ERC Project PLAnT retweeted
Today marks the date on which the Antarctic Treaty dedicated the continent to peace and science. To mark the occasion, we will be sharing stories, challenges and discoveries of our researchers, throughout the week.
Stay tuned!
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ERC Project PLAnT retweeted
Catarina Santos is the lead author of a chapter in the new book ‘Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation’
The book edited by Larry Crowder promotes dialogue between the natural sciences, social sciences and local knowledge.
Download now 👇
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