O K E A N O S

Deep sea

Biology & Ecology Conservation & Management

Description

Ecology of deep-sea habitats such as seamounts, ridges and hydrothermal vents: cold-water corals and sponges, vent communities, habitat mapping and the impacts of deep-sea mining.

Research groups

ADSR

Coordinators 4

Ana Colaço Principal researcher Daphne Cuvelier Assistant researcher Marina Carreiro-Silva Assistant researcher Telmo Morato Principal researcher

Members 12

Christopher Pham Assistant researcher Diana Catarino Junior researcher Eva Giacomello Researcher · Others Gabriela Cardoso Researcher · Others Inês Bruno Researcher · Others Inês Carneiro Technician · Others João Balsa PhD student Laurence Fauconnet Assistant researcher Luís Rodrigues Assistant researcher Manuela Ramos PhD student Teresa Cerqueira Assistant researcher Valter Medeiros IT technician

Publications · By the members of this line 494

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment · 198(9)
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Transboundary plastic pollution from North American lobster fisheries reaches Atlantic Islands

Pham, CK Vargas, D Medeiros, V Pereira, JM Rodríguez, Y and 4 others
Aug 2026
Coral Reefs
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The ghost of glaberrima: descriptions of two new Leiopathes species

Horowitz, J Opresko, DM Morrissey, D Polit, V Cerqueira, T Carreiro-Silva, M and 4 others
Jun 2026
NPJ Ocean Sustainability · 5(1)
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Deep differences: expanding the marine social sciences and humanities into the deep ocean

Lidström, S Craik, N Alfaro-Lucas, JM Amon, DJ Colaço, A and 8 others
May 2026
Scientific Reports · 16(1)
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Looking beyond the vent to the environmental seascapes shaping deep-sea hydrothermal ecosystems

Chapman, ASA Alfaro-Lucas, JM Beaulieu, SE Colaço, A and 8 others
May 2026

Projects 57

Fieldwork done 40

Infrastructure

Laboratories

Financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito dos projetos UID/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/05634/2025), UID/PRR/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR/05634/2025) e UID/PRR2/05634/2025 (DOI: 10.54499/UID/PRR2/05634/2025).

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