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2012– Current
The PELD-ILOC is a long-term ecological research project that monitors benthic communities in the reef environments of the Brazilian Oceanic Islands – São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas and Trindade Islands. Among several goals of the PELD-ILOC, we are responsible for evaluating the population dynamics of the Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus) and for monitoring the plankton.
2017 - Current
Biology of the land crab Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) and the Sally lightfoot crab Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Trindade Island. The project aims to estimate the sexual maturity and evaluate the population structure of the two most abundant crab species in Trindade Island.
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2013 – 2017
The MAArE Project was a partnership between researchers from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the environmental agency team from the REBIO Arvoredo, a no-take Marine Protected Area, with financial resources from PETROBRAS. During three years of environmental monitoring, we collected oceanographic (climatic and physical-chemical) and biological data (marine phyto and zooplankton and benthic communities. Our team were responsible for evaluating the community structure of reef decapods and zooplankton.
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2020 - Current
Atlantic Ecosystems Assessment, Forecasting and Sustainability. The AtlantECO project aims to determine the structure and function of the Atlantic microbiome in the context of ocean circulation and the presence of pollutants, such as plastics, to evaluate and predict the Atlantic Ocean's health as well as contribute to a better manage of the ecosystem services.
PLANZEU PROJECT
2016 – Current
This projects aims to understand the diversity patterns of plankton from the euphotic zone and its relation with biogeochemical cycles at the oceanic islands São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago and Trindade Island, as well as in the latitudinal gradient between them. We plan to analyze the genetic diversity of the planktonic communities and their functions in the ecosystem; establish a biogeochemical model of the nitrogen and carbon of the ocean surface; and analyze physical features, such as temperature, salinity, direction and current velocity, around the islands and in the route from one island to the other.
2018 - Current
Plankton monitoring in the shallow continental shelf of Santa Catarina (SC). This project aims to analyze the composition and abundance of zooplankton, as an indicator of the variability of marine communities related to meteo-oceanographic variability. Meteo-oceanographic data are collected in situ by a buoy of the Brazilian Coast Monitoring System (SiMCosta).
