PROJECTS/ NETWORKS
Ana I Neto, PI of the project ASPAZOR, is a team member of the project REBECA, which is a development platform created to foster the Blue Biotechnology within the geographical group of the Macaronesian region and North West Africa.
Ana I Neto, PI of the project ASPAZOR, is a team member of the project MACBIOBLUE, which is a demonstration and technology transfer project for the development of companies using new products and processes within the Blue Biotechnology of Macaronesia.
The “Algae-to-Market Lab Ideas” project is focused on the Iberian North West Coast and aims to develop new products and services to address invasive alien species (invasive macroalgae) ensuring a sustainable exploitation of resources for food, health and industrial applications.
PEOPLE
AK is an evolutionary ecology and conservation Masters student at Imperial College London. He is currently interested in using drones and machine learning to develop automated and low-cost monitoring methodologies for marine and terrestrial biodiversity. His project within ASPAZOR is to develop and evaluate a monitoring approach for Asparagopsis sp. using drones.
Alexandros Kellaris
Imperial College London
MB has a bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Azores. His main interests are within the Phycology subject. In ASPAZOR he helped on sampling (diving) and also on sorting algal samples at the laboratory. He has also worked on the functional and physiological aspects of invitro culture of Asparagopsis sp.
Miguel Batista
University of Azores
MM is an environmental biologist student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently enrolled in the International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea). He is interested in marine biodiversity and conservation. Within the ASPAZOR Marcel worked on sampling, sorting and identifying algae specimens.
Marcel Montanyès
Autonomous University of Barcelona
ERASMUS program
MJP has recently concluded a bachelor degree in Biology at the University of Azores. In ASPAZOR, she explored the functional and physiological changes of Asparagopsis taxiformis and A. armata, under different abiotic conditions. For the future, she intends to increase her capacities in aquaculture techniques, and methods.
Maria João Pereira
University of Azores
Enrique Casas
EC is a remote sensing Master's student at the University of Valencia. He is undertaking a Species Distribution Model for the invasive algae A. armata in S. Miguel island using remote sensing and provide better resolution datasets than the already available for the island. He is interested in advanced geographic information technologies, namely in remote sensing and digital image processing to support marine and coastal research in small island scenarios.
University of Valencia
Eurodyssey exchange programme
AFV is majoring in Marine Biology and minoring in creative writing at Eckerd College, Florida. She is espetially interested in how cephalopods/ other marine life contribute in shaping and affect the environment. Within ASPAZOR she was involved in sample sorting: field samples collected from dives, stored, sorted to species level and later identified.
Ana Filipa Vieira
SVH is a marine biology student at the University of Vigo. Her main interests are within the Oceanography subject. In Aspazor, she helped in sample sorting and identifying algae specimens.
Sandra Villar Herbello
University of Vigo
AA has collaborated in the morphological characterisation of the tetraesporophytes of A. armata and A. taxiformis. Also, for her degree final project at the University of Azores/Vigo, she studied the intertidal spatial and temporal variation of A. armata along the south coast of São Miguel island, Azores.
Ana Alfaya
University of Vigo
ERASMUS program
AD is a Marine Sciences student at the University of Vigo. Within ASPAZOR he explored the hypothesis of enemy liberation (ERH), and conducted mesocosmos experiments to determine the preference of different azorean key herbivores and omnivores for A. armata against native algae.
Alessandro Dieste
University of Vigo
ERASMUS program
LLE is a biologist from the University of the Basque Country. She used data collected under the ASPAZOR for the Biology degree individual project course while she was an Erasmus student at the University of Azores. She studied the spatial and temporal distribution of macroalgal assemblages associated with the invasive A. armata on intertidal rocky shore in Azores.
Leire Lopetegui Eugen
University of the Basque Country
ERASMUS program
Beatriz Lorente
BL is in the EURODYSSEE traineeship Exchange program in the ASPAZOR project since July 2018, collaborating in the ecology part of the project. Currently she’s working in fieldwork in the subtidal level of São Miguel island and in laboratory work including separation and identification of algal samples, also helping in the organization of the data collected for further analysis.
University of Azores
EURODYSSEE exchange program
DNN is a student of Biology (Biodiversity Mention) at the University of Barcelona. He is doing it's Bachelor's degree final project within the ASPAZOR project, under the theme "
Contributing to the sustainable use of the non-native algae Asparagopsis armata and Asparagopsis
taxiformis as alternative marine resources in the Azores".
Daniel Navas Noguera
University of Barcelona
ERASMUS program
AA is a Biology student at the University of Barcelona. She's using the ERASMUS program to boost her research capacities, and within the ASPAZOR project she's focusing on gathering information to compare how both Asparagopsis species influence the abundance, richness, and diversity of associated macrofaunal assemblages.
Aina del Alcazar
University of Barcelona
ERASMUS program
PG is a Biology student from the University of Alicante and his current project within ASPAZOR is about performing experimental research to determine to what extent predicted climate changes will affect the occurrence and distribution of Asparagopsis species on the littoral of São Miguel Island.
Pablo González
University of Alicante
ERASMUS program