Fábio L. Matos

During European Researchers’ Night 2025, our lab team brought deep-sea science to Fábrica da Ciência Viva, Aveiro; Torreira & Armamar, with games and talks that inspired curiosity, promoted inclusion, and highlighted the value of ocean research.🌊🔬🌍

Deadline extended🐬
Join the remote Marine Biodiversity Data Mobilization Workshop to learn how to bring your marine biodiversity datasets into OBIS!

📅 Workshop dates: 4-6 November 2025, 17:00-21:00 UTC

↪️ Apply by 30.9.25! docs.google.com/forms/d/1SpW...

Research Grant (BI-3/CESAM/AURORA/2025) A tender is open for the award of 1 Research Grant (RG) under the project ‘AURORA - Bringing Deep-Sea Biodiversity Data to Light’,

We are looking for a motived student with bachelor's degree in computer or data science to join our team @ahilario.bsky.social @fabiolmatos.bsky.social @uaveiro.bsky.social in the project AURORA - Bringing Deep-Sea Biodiversity Data to Light
All info at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/371123

Research Grant (BI-2/CESAM/AURORA/2025) A tender is hereby opened for the award of 1 Research Grant (RG) under AURORA - Bringing Deep-Sea Biodiversity Data to Light, of CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine S

📢 Research Grant Alert! We seeks a Data Scientist / Computer Engineer for the AURORA project. Develop a digital platform for biodiversity & environmental data. Master's + R/Python skills needed. Apply now! 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/361720

Welcome to the #GES4SEAS #MOOC on Tipping Points #TIPP
Well, what is a Tipping Point?
It is a point after which an ecosystem suddenly shifts from one state to another, Going back to the original state is difficult: SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE.
See the thread for more details👇

This support is crucial for unlocking 'sleeping' deep-sea biodiversity data and making it open and FAIR, actively contributing to the EU #DigitalTwinOcean. Open FAIR data is a key step in understanding and protecting #DeepSea ecosystems and boosting their visibility in marine data portals.

Very happy to announce that our project AURORA: Bringing Deep-Sea #Biodiversity Data to Light has been selected for funding by @dtobioflow.bsky.social 🎉

@ahilario.bsky.social @helianateixeira.bsky.social @uaveiro.bsky.social #DTOBioFlow

Each project brings unique expertise, methods, and data realities—spanning regions, ecosystems, and institutions. 🌊🧪
Workshops like this are a rare chance to hear such diverse voices, yet all aligned around a shared purpose. Ideas are already starting to connect.
tinyurl.com/yc6zbbax

🌊 The #DTOBioFlow #SecondOpenCall winners are here! 🎉
10 projects selected from 61 will receive up to €60K to support #MarineBiodiversity data integration into the #EUDTO.
🏁 Workshop kicks off today in #Paris!
🔗 Meet the winners: tinyurl.com/3suw9fum
🚀 Not selected? Follow us for more!

Excited to be in Paris for the DTO-BioFlow Data Grants Holders Workshop! Discussing crucial topics like effective biodiversity data management & sharing in open-access data repositories like EMODnet Biology. Let's make data FAIR for better conservation! #DTOBioFlow #BiodiversityData #OpenScience

Research Grant (BI2/CESAM/GES4SEAS/2025) A tender is hereby opened for the award of 1 Research Grant (RG) in the scope of R&D project GES4SEAS - Achieving Good Environmental Status for maintaining ecosystem SErvices, by ASsessing integrated

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/334028

Achieving Good Environmental Status (GES) for marine habitats 🌊 requires robust data on human impacts. This dataset can provide valuable support for policymakers and contribute to the conservation of deep-sea benthic habitats. (4/4)
🔗 zenodo.org/records/14941432
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1532964

Frontiers | Impact chains for the deep seafloor: assessing pressures footprint under limited knowledge and uncertainty

It complements the study "Impact chains for the deep seafloor: assessing pressures footprint under limited knowledge and uncertainty" 📖 (doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1532964), which assesses human activities & pressures affecting deep-sea habitats in Portugal's mainland EEZ. (3/4)

This dataset (🔗 zenodo.org/records/14941432) was developed under the #GES4SEAS & @bioprotectproject.bsky.social projects to support deep-sea conservation. (2/4)

🚨 New dataset! 🚨 Mapping human & climate pressures on deep-sea benthic habitats within Mainland Portugal's Exclusive Economic Zone (>200m) 🇵🇹 (1/4)

Frontiers | Impact chains for the deep seafloor: assessing pressures footprint under limited knowledge and uncertainty

doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

5/5 You can read all about this new open-access paper “Impact chains for the deep seafloor: assessing pressures footprint under limited knowledge and uncertainty" in doi.org/10.3389/fmar.... #OpenAccess #ScienceCommunication @uaveiro.bsky.social

4/5 📊🔍 Data gaps and the lack of baseline and long-term data series hinder the effective assessment of combined impacts in the deep sea. High-quality and standardized marine data collection and sharing are essential. #DataScience #OceanData

3/5 On the other hand, at abyssal depths, climate change-related pressures dominate. #ClimateChange

2/5 🚢🎣🌡️ Marine traffic, fisheries, and climate change are major players. Within bathyal zones, chemical pollutants are widespread while abrasion impacts are more localised. Bathyal zones near the 200m contour face a higher risk of combined effects. #EcosystemBasedManagement #HumamImpacts

1/5 🚨 New research alert! 🌊 Happy to share our new paper on anthropogenic pressures footprint on #DeepSea benthic habitats in Mainland Portuguese EEZ. A #GES4SEAS & @bioprotectproject.bsky.social paper with @ahilario.bsky.social and @helianateixeira.bsky.social

🌊 Join #INCISE2025 in Barcelona, hosted by the ICM & CSIC, in collaboration with the University of Barcelona to focus on submarine canyons and their role in marine science.

📅 16 - 19 June 2025
📍 Barcelona, Spain
📣 Call for abstracts: Submit by 31 March 2025
Have you made a submission? Let us know 👇

My @azti.bsky.social #GES4SEAS summer school in June is open. An opportunity to learn and discuss on #ArtificialIntelligence and #citizenscience applications for monitoring #invasive species and #biodiversity at sea

#MarineEcology
@guardias.bsky.social

Today is the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. At #GES4SEAS project we have engaged women scientists with the #ocean assessment and management. These are only few of them. They are examples for future female scientists!
@azti.bsky.social
#WomeninScience
#MarineEcology
#Research
#STEAM

Tomorrow at lunch time take an #OceanBreak and come listening to another talk of the #CESAM seminar series in marine sciences at the University of Aveiro.

I'll be talking about the use of #AI Computer Vision Tools in Biological Invasions Research! 🌊 🐚

6 great European projects gathered to bring you this exciting summer school #GES4SEAS, #OBAMA-NEXT, #GuardIAS, #BioBoost+, #ANERIS and #POMP hosted by @azti.bsky.social @drangelborja.bsky.social

Find more about the Programme and Registration here: www.azti.es/en/event/sum...

The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that typically live thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface.

The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals

#marineecology

www.biographic.com/the-secret-s...