Maria Dornelas is the Coordinator Lead Author for Chapter 2 of the IPBES assessment on biodiversity monitoring.

IPBES - Science and Policy for People and Nature

The team participated in and presented their work at ECRS, which focused on closing knowledge gaps between tropical, temperate, and cold-water coral reefs while advocating for sustainable conservation strategies to safeguard these ecosystems.

Team presents at European Coral Reef Symposium

02.07 - 05.07.2024

Did you know that fish are getting smaller, which could significantly impact our future? Discover the reasons behind this phenomenon and how it affects us in this revealing article.

Maria and Inês’s insights were featured in a BBC article

24.05.2024

Maria, Vivi, Ines, Faye and Anne attended the last of the sTeTra working group meetings, in Leipzig.

Last meeting of sTeTra working group

17.04 - 21.04.2024

We are recruiting a Postdoc

28.03 - 29.04.2024

Cher becomes a LIRS PhD fellow

Cher won the Ian Potter doctoral fellowship at Lizard Island. This grants her a budget to spend more time in the field in Jigurru (Great Barrier Reef, Australia).

06.02.2024

Inês Martins within the sTeTra working group leaded and published a paper on body size shifts in populations and assemblages in Science. Read the paper here.

New paper in Science

08.09.2023

Maria, Vivi, James, Cher and Garrett went to the Coconut Island field station at the Hawai’ian Institute for Marine Biology to start mapping and coral tracking on that site for the coralINT project.

Fieldtrip to Coconut Island

06.09 - 29.09.2023

Maria, Vivi, James, Garrett, Cher, Matt and Maddy, together with some HIMB collaborators Devynn, Mollie, Marion and Dama went all in for the first coralINT trip to Jiigurru

Fieldtrip to Jiigurru

17.10 - 24.11.2023

Maria, Cher, Ines and Mike join the second sTeTra working group at the idiv facilities in Leipzig. Vivi and Faye joined online. Let’s put the BioTIME database to good use!

sTeTra working group

08.05 - 12.05.2023

Welcome to our team, Emily!

01.10.2024

25.11 - 29.11.2024

‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather? Click here to read the article

Maria was featured in The Guardian

22.02.2024

Matthew-James Bennett joins the Macroscope as a PhD student the coralINT project. He will look at how reef community structures affect coral larval recruitment

Welcome to the Lab, Matt!

15.10.2023

As part of the NSF-NERC project ‘Flourish in complexity’ in collaboration with the J Madin lab (HIMB), Catarina, a Portuguese ceramic artist, run a clay workshop in Coconut Island (Hawai’i) with local scientists that made them relate to corals through a different perspective.

Catarina Nunes runs a ceramic workshop in Coconut Island

15.09.2023

Sofia Freitas joins the Macroscope Lab as our lab manager – good luck herding the team!

Welcome to the team, Sofia!

01.09.2023

Maria Dornelas received the first CIM Award from the University of Vigo for her pioneering contributions to the study of global marine biodiversity and the impacts of environmental changes on ocean ecosystems.

Maria honoured with first CIM Award

24.10.2024

Awarded with an ERC Consolidator grant, Maria starts her project coralINT. She brings Viviana in the team as a postdoc and starts this adventure based at the Guia Marine lab, a MARE FCUL facility.

coralINT starts!

01.11.2022

Maria attended the first sTime working group meeting, focused on merging palaeo and modern data to look at biodiversity change.

sTime working group

10.04 - 14.04.2024

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