This past few weeks, members from MARlab, with collaboration from MARE-UÉ went back to the Sado estuary to conduct the summer sampling campaign for the D4Ss project.

Quintas do MARE is an initiative where MARE researchers have the opportunity to give short 30 minute lectures about their work to the general public every two weeks. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the initiative addapted to the online format

The lattest session was about the RIVER-SEA project where Ana Pires, Bárbara Sá and Pedro Santos spoke about the work done so far, the results obtained and what's next for the project.

The lecture is available on Youtube!

Did you know that the oceans are connected to human health? They're the earth's lungs as they provide us most of the oxygen that we breathe!

Let's preserve and protect them!

Happy Oceans Day!

The MARlab team has contributed with ingredients for the manufacturing of disinfectant gel that will be delivered to the Santa Maria Hospital, in Lisbon. 

Around 300 litres of desifected gel will be produced.

MARlab has recently started the Project D4Ss fieldwork, collecting samples from 3 different sites in the Sado estuary.

The team, consisting of MARE-NOVA researchers Marta Martins, Joana Neves and João Pequeno, as well as Mare-UÉVORA researchers, collected the samples on site and then processed the samples in the laboratory in order to assess the functional benthic ecosystem interactions and differences between the sampling sites, which are located in different margins of the estuary.

Beatriz Matos and Bárbara Sá are two new researchers that have joined MARlab in Januray 2020.

Beatriz was already a member of the team but now joins us as a Masters Researcher. She will work in PAHMIX Project led by Marta Martins. Bárbara Sá comes from the Algarve region and wil work in the RIVERSEA Project, led by Paula Sobral.

We welcome Beatriz and Bárbara to the team!