Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Graham John Pierce
Citation names
- Pierce, Graham
- Pierce, Graham John
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2213-7253-D963
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4744-4501
Websites
- http://www.iim.csic.es/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Oceanography
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Fishery
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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1986
Concluded
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PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
"Foraging Behaviour of the Common Shrew Sorex araneus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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PhD |
1981/09/30
Concluded
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MSc in Ecology (Master)
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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MSc in Ecology |
1980/06/30
Concluded
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Zoology (Bachelor)
University of London, United Kingdom
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BSc Zoology 1st class honours |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012/09/01 - 2020 | Invited Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
2016 - 2017 | Invited Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/02/17 - Current | Profesor de Investigacion | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain | ||
2017/01/02 - 2021/02/16 | Investigador Cientifico | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain | ||
2008/08/01 - 2016/12/31 | Professor in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
2007/09/15 - 2010/10/14 | Marie Curie Chair | Instituto Español de Oceanografía Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Spain |
2004/01/01 - 2008/07/31 | Reader in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
2000/01/01 - 2003 | Senior Lecturer in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
1996/01/01 - 1999 | Lecturer in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
1986/06/01 - 1995/12/31 | Research Fellow in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
1985/01/01 - 1986 | Research Assistant in Zoology | University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/01/01 - 2027/12/31 | Reducing Bycatch of Threatened Megafauna in the East Central Atlantic (REDUCE)
101135583
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain
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European Commission
Ongoing
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2024/04/01 - 2027/03/31 | 1. E-DNA, Microbiomes, Photogrammetry and Hormones - Assessment Techniques In Cetaceans (EMPHATIC)
Principal investigator
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain La Rochelle Université, France Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal Fondazione CIMA, Italy |
Fundacion Biodiversidad
Ongoing
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2021/02/16 - 2024/11/30 | Ecología y Recursos Marinos
IN607A2021/08
Principal investigator
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain
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Xunta de Galicia
Ongoing
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2021/02/01 - 2023/12/01 | Monitorización, Evaluación y Reducción de la Mortalidad Accidental de Cetáceos debido a Interacciones con la Flota española
¿ Revisión y Acción (MERMA CIFRA)
MAP2021-02-001
MAP2021-02-002
MAP2021-02-003
Principal investigator
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain
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MINISTERIO DE AGRICULTURA, PESCA Y ALIMENTACION
Ongoing
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2021/03/01 - 2023/02/28 | CetAMBICion - Coordinated Cetacean Assessment, Monitoring and Management Strategy in the Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast sub-region
110661/2020/839610/SUB/ENV.C.2
Principal investigator
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain |
Directorate-General for Environment
Ongoing
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2019 - 2023 | SeaChanges - Thresholds in human exploitation of marine vertebrates
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2020 - 2022 | NuTEC - NUevas Tecnologías moleculares y de control remoto para la Evaluación de las poblaciones de Cetáceos
Principal investigator
|
Ongoing
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2019 - 2021 | TRANSITION - TRansfers of Anthropogenic and Natural Stressors Involving Trophic Interactions of Ocean Nekton
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Principal investigator
|
Ongoing
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2019 - 2021 | MISTICSEAS III -Developing a coordinated approach for assessing Descriptor 4 via its linkages with D1 and other relevant descriptors
in the Macaronesian sub-region
DG ENV/MSFD 2018
Researcher
Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain
|
Ongoing
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2017 - 2021 | CEPHS & CHEFS - Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish, Sustainable Fisheries and Chefs
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2018 - 2019 | Adecuación de la sala de colecciones ictiológicas y zooplantónicas del IIM a la nueva normativa de PRL
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2018 - 2019 | Interacciones entre pesquerias y cetaceos
CSIC-201730I102
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2012 - 2018 | Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
Research Council of Canada
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2015 - 2016 | Social Transformations of Marine Social-Ecological Systems
Science Fund, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2014 - 2016 | The Economic Valuation and Governance of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Servicest
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2013 - 2016 | PARASITE - Parasite Risk Assessment with Integrated Tools in EU fish production value chains
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2015 - 2015 | Long-term trends in diet and mortality in Moray Firth harbour porpoises in relation to prey abundance: insights from stable
isotope analysis
NERC grant-in-kind
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2014 - 2015 | Creating an online cetacean atlas to act as an industrial and educational resource
Encompass Knowledge Transfer grant, Scottish Enterprise
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2013 - 2015 | Cephalopod indicators for the MSFD
UK Defra - ME5311
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2012 - 2015 | LARECO - Impacto de la oceanografía sobre la distribución y la ecología trófica de las paralarvas del pulpo común en un área
de afloramiento estacional
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2014 - 2014 | Analysis of coastal sightings data to infer patterns in porpoise and dolphin distribution
JNCC/SeaWatch Foundation
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2012 - 2014 | AQUAT-NET 3 - Aquaculture, Fisheries & Aquatic Resource Management
European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2012 - 2014 | MYFISH - Maximising yield of fisheries while balancing ecosystem, economic and social concerns
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2012 - 2012 | The Contribution of Marine Protected Areas to Protecting Highly Mobile Species in English Waters
British Trust for Ornithology/DEFRA
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2010 - 2012 | FACTS - Forage Fish Interactions
KBBE–244966–FACTS
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2010 - 2012 | Proyecto Whale Watch Galicia: Investigacion De La Potencialidad Y Diseño Del Nuevo Producto Whale Watch En Galicia
Xunta de Galicia
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2010 - 2011 | Understanding harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and fisheries interactions in the north-west Iberian Peninsula
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2010 - 2011 | Vocational Aqualabs
Researcher
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Concluded
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2008 - 2011 | AQUAT-NET 2 - Aquaculture, Fisheries & Aquatic Resource Management
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2006 - 2009 | ECOSUMMER - ECOsystem approach to SUstainable Management of the Marine Environment and its living Resources
MEST-CT-2005-020501
Grant agreement ID: 20501
Principal investigator
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Concluded
|
2006 - 2009 | MOFI - Monk Seal and Fisheries: Mitigating the Conflict in Greek Seas (Investigation of the feeding habits of Monachus monachus)
LIFENAT/GR/00083
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2007 - 2008 | ECOPEL II - Estudio del Ecosistema Pelágico, la Distribución de las Especies y sus Relaciones con el Medio Ambiente
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2007 - 2008 | Climate Change and Migratory species: Indicator Species and Protocols for Data Collection
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2007 - 2008 | Monitoring and assessment of squid fishing in UK waters
Defra/SEAFISH
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2006 - 2008 | EnviEFH - Environmental Approach to Essential Fish Habitat Designation
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2005 - 2008 | Taxonomic marine plankton identification manual for North European seas
Principal investigator
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
|
Concluded
|
2005 - 2008 | INCOFISH - Integrating multiple demands on coastal zones with emphasis on aquatic ecosystems and Fisheries
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2005 - 2008 | Development of an acoustic prototype for reduction of depredation by marine mammals on swordfish fisheries
Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2007 - 2007 | Variation of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in bottlenose dolphins and their prey in Galicia, NW Spain: inferences
about bottlenose dolphin population movements and diet
NERC Grant-in-kind
Supervisor
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Concluded
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2007 - 2007 | Effect of ecogeographic variables on cetaceans
NERC Grant-in-kind
Supervisor
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Concluded
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2007 - 2007 | Population structure and trophic ecology of the common dolphin in European waters using ecological tracers
British Ecological Society
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2007 - 2007 | BIOPEL - Biología de Especies Pelágicas (anchoa, sardina, jurel, caballa y bacaladilla) en el área del ICES
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2004 - 2007 | BAGPIPES - Bio-diversity processes in heterogeneous environments
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2006 - 2006 | Using Stable Isotopes, C13 and N15, to Identify Spatial and Dietary Niches of Cetaceans in the Waters Off the Scottish West
Coast
NERC Grant-in-kind
Supervisor
|
Concluded
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2004 - 2005 | Ontogenetic variation of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in male sperm whale teeth - inferences on sperm whale dietary
and migratory history in the North Atlantic
NERC Grant-in-kind
Supervisor
|
Concluded
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2004 - 2005 | Climate Change and Migratory Species
British Trust for Ornithology/DEFRA
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2002 - 2005 | CEPHSTOCK - Cephalopod Stocks in European Waters: Review, Analysis, Assessment and Sustainable Management
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2002 - 2005 | EUROGEL - EUROpean GELatinous zooplankton: Mechanisms behind jellyfish blooms and their ecological and socio-economic effects
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2000 - 2005 | SEMLMAR - Sustainable exploitation and management of living marine resources: a holistic approach
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2004 - 2004 | Sperm whale distribution at the Atlantic Frontier
NERC Grant-in-kind
Supervisor
|
Concluded
|
2003 - 2004 | ROCKCOD - Promoting higher added value to a finfish species rejected to sea
Researcher
|
Concluded
|
2001 - 2004 | BIOCET - Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in small cetaceans in European waters: transport pathways and impact
on reproduction
Principal investigator
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Concluded
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2003 - 2003 | Reproductive status of harbour seals in Dutch waters: analysis of samples collected following the phocine distemper outbreak
in 2002
Scottish Association for Marine Science
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2002 - 2003 | Review and synthesis of data on distribution and abundance of beaked whales worldwide to aid the examination of the relationship
between beak whale occurrence and oceanographic variables
US Navy - Office of Naval research
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
2002 - 2003 | Fatty acid and stable isotopes: a new approach to the trophic ecology of deep-sea ichthyofauna
NER/M/S/2002/00077
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2002 - 2003 | Investigating dietary niche width of beaked whales in the North Atlantic using stable isotopes
NERC Grant-in-kind
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2000 - 2003 | AQCESS - Aquaculture and Coastal Economic and Social Sustainability
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2001/01 - 2001/08 | Pelagic fisheries in Scotland (UK) and Galicia (Spain): observer studies to collect fishery data and monitor by-catches of
small cetaceans
CEC-DG-FSP-2000/27
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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2001 - 2001 | PREMEGADEV - Creating the conditions for a combined research and development and demonstration project for the development
of an objective mesh gauge
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2000 - 2001 | Data collection for assessment of cephalopod fisheries
CEC DG Fisheries Study Project 99/063
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2000 - 2001 | 31. Data collection for assessment of the main finfish stocks in the Patagonian shelf (SW Atlantic)
CEC DG Fisheries Study Project 99/016
Researcher
|
Concluded
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2000 - 2000 | Evaluation of the state of knowledge concerning by-catches of cetaceans
CEC DGXIV Tender No XIV/1999/01 Lot 7
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
1998 - 2000 | Impacts of fisheries on small cetaceans in coastal waters of northwest Spain and Scotland
CEC DGXIV Study Project 97/089
Principal investigator
|
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1997 - 2000 | Cephalopod Resource Dynamics: Patterns in Environmental and Genetic Variation
FAIR-CT96-1520
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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1999 - 1999 | Environmental Influences on the Distribution of Commercial Fish Stocks
NERC Small Grant
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
|
1998 - 1999 | Development of software to estimate unreported or misreported catch and effort data and to apply fishery management models
CEC DGXIV Study Project 97/0107
Science and Technology Management Fellow
|
Concluded
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1997 - 1999 | Data Collection for Assessment of Fished Cephalopod Stocks
CEC DGXIV Study Project 96/081
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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1996 - 1998 | Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Growth and Recruitment of Fished Populations: Development of Empirical Models of Environmental
Variation
University of Aberdeen Research Committee and Faculty of Science
Research Fellow
|
Concluded
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1997 - 1997 | Selectivity database
QLAM-2000-00005
Researcher
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Concluded
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1995 - 1996 | Diet of common seals in Shetland
Shetland Wildlife Fund and others
Researcher
|
Concluded
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1993 - 1995 | Stock Dynamics, Interactions and Recruitment in Northeast Atlantic Squid Fisheries.
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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1993 - 1994 | Temporal patterns in the diet of seals
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Principal investigator
|
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2015 - 2015 | Small-Scale Fisheries and the Zero Discard Target
European Parliament
Researcher
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Working paper |
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Other
Dataset |
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Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2021/11/05 | Cephalopod Fisheries in European waters: stock assessment, forecasting and management | 4th International Congress Applied Ichthyology, Oceanography and Aquatic Environment - HydroMediT 2020
University of the Aegean (Mytilini , Greece)
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2019/11 | Ecosystem approach to fisheries: the role of food web and multispecies assessment | Workshop 4: Sustainable management of marine living resources, Fórum Oceano, BUSINESS2SEA, Porto, Portugal |
2019/03 | Citizen science and cetaceans: Shorewatch What can we learn from Shorewatch data? | WDC, SRUC & Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme 2019 Marine Forum, Inverness, UK |
2018/10 | Global squid production | Congreso Internacional sobre Producción Pesquera Mundial
Organized by Conxemar and FAO (Vigo, Spain)
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2018/09 | Porpoise life history and diet | 7th Meeting of the ‘Steering Group for the Conservation Plan for the Harbour Porpoise in the North Sea’ (HP NSSG) – ASCOBAN
(Lithuania)
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2018/09 | Depletion. Available at https://www.ascobans.org/sites/default/files/document/2.2%20Resource%20depletion_Pierce%20Sveegard.pdf | 24th Meeting of the Advisory Committee (AC24) - ASCOBANS |
2017/11 | Environmental effects on Loligo forbesii biology, ecology and fisheries: what, how and so what? | International workshop: Improving our knowledge on the effects of climate variability and change on the population dynamics
of short-lived species to inform fisheries management, UN FAO, Rome Italy
(Italy)
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2017/09 | Evaluación de calamares por métodos indirectos en el Atlántico | Taller Internacional Metodologías De Evaluación del Calamar Gigante (Dosidicus gigas)
(Peru)
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2016/10 | Good environmental status for cephalopods in UK waters? | 37th Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG) Meeting, Edinburgh, UK
(United Kingdom)
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2016/04 | Common dolphins: ecology threats, research and conservation | 1st International Workshop on Conservation and research networking on short beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the
Mediterranean Sea, Ischia Island, Italy
(Italy)
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2014/04 | Marine mammals and Good Environmental Status: Science, policy and society; challenges and opportunities | European Cetacean Society conference, Liege, Belgium
(Belgium)
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2013/04 | Stock identification using ecological markers and life history information | Joint ACCOBAMS–ASCOBANS workshop on cetacean population structure, European Cetacean Society conference, Setubal, Portugal |
2013/04 | Diet and life history of bottlenose dolphins. Invited talk | Workshop on “Bottlenose dolphin’s conservation: what we can learn from different resident populations?”, European Cetacean
Society conference, Setubal, Portugal
(Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2008 - Current | Multidisciplinary study of Morus bassanus (Pelecaniformes, Sulidae) in the central coast of Portugal (PhD grant award - Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BD/42100/2007)
Co-supervisor of Paula Cristina Lopes Mendes
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2020 - 2024 | Modelling shifts in cetacean distribution under future scenarios of climate change in the Eastern North Atlantic (PhD grant
award) Do*Mar studentship, Campus do Mar.
Supervisor of Ágatha Gil
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Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
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2020 - 2021 | New molecular and remote control technologies for the evaluation of cetacean populations (JAE Intro Grant)
Supervisor of Miguel Álvarez González
|
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2015 - 2020 | Cetacean monitoring in Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: Occurrence and distribution of cetacean species in the Canary Basin (PhD
grant - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FRH/BD/100606/2014)
Co-supervisor
|
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2014 - 2020 | Assessing the molecular, toxicological and ecological status of the bottlenose dolphin from the Sado estuary (Portugal), a
highly human-impacted environment. (Postdoctoral grant award - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BPD/97566/2013,
2014-2020)
Supervisor of Inês Costa de Carvalho
|
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2014 - 2018 | Population parameters and genetic structure of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena Phocoena, L. 1758) in the Northwest the Iberian
Peninsula
Co-supervisor
|
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2010 - 2015 | Trading, transporting and dealing in exotic animals and their products from 1500-1970: Their impact on European science and
culture (Postdoctoral grant - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BPD/63433/2009)
Co-supervisor
|
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2009 - 2015 | Interactions of cetaceans and turtles with Fisheries along the Portuguese continental coast (Postdoctoral grant award - Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BPD/64889/2009)
Co-supervisor of Ana Luísa Barreto Marçalo
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2011 - 2014 | Conserving pelagic habitats in changing environments: marine top predators as bioindicators (Postdoctoral grant - EU Marie
Curie Training and Career Development Grant - PCIG9-GA-2011-293774)
Co-supervisor of Maite Louzao
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2013 - 2013 | Are there climatic signals in biological and fishery data for sardine (Sardina pilchardus) along the Iberian Atlantic coast?
(NERC Research Experience Placement awarded)
Supervisor
|
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2010 - 2013 | Interactions of cetaceans with Spanish and Portuguese fisheries in Atlantic waters: costs, benefits and implications for management
(PhD grant award - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BD/47931/2008)
Co-supervisor of Sabine Goetz
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2009 - 2013 | Distribution, relative abundance, genetic structure and habitat use of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena, Linnaeus 1758)
of the Northwest Iberian Peninsula (PhD grant award - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BD/45339/2008)
Co-supervisor of Angela Llavona Vallina
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2008 - 2012 | Population Ecology of Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) in the Northern Coast of Portugal (PhD grant award - Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia - SFRH/BD/38735/2007)
Co-supervisor of Silvia Raquel da Silva Monteiro
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - 2019 | Co-convenor of Theme Session at ICES Annual Science Conference on “Drivers of sustainability in fisheries for non-quota and data-poor species”, Gothenburg, September 2019. (2019 - 2019) | |
2017 - 2017 | Co-convenor of Open Session at ICES Annual Science Conference on “Emerging science topics relevant to ICES”, Fort Lauderdale, September 2017. (2017 - 2017) | |
2016 - 2016 | Co-convenor of Open Session at ICES Annual Science Conference on “What are the implications for marine ecosystems of interactions between multiple stressors?”, Riga, September 2016. (2016 - 2016) | |
2011 - 2016 | Scientific Committee for the annual European Cetacean Society conferences (Chair, 2009; member, 2011-2016). (2011 - 2016) | |
2015 - 2015 | Co-convenor of Workshop on “The use of stable isotope analysis of bulk tissue and amino acids to investigate the feeding ecology, and population structure of marine mammals, and human impacts on their populations”, Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial conference, San Francisco, December 2015. (2015 - 2015) | |
2015 - 2015 | Co-convenor of Theme Session at ICES Annual Science Conference on “How to hit an uncertain moving target: achieving Good Environmental Status under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive”, Copenhagen, September 2015. (2015 - 2015) | |
2014 - 2014 | Co-convenor of Theme Session at the ICES Annual Science Conference, on “Operation cephalopod solutions”, La Coruña, September 2014. (2014 - 2014) | |
2011 - 2011 | Co-convenor of Workshop on Prey Identification in Marine Mammal Diets, European Cetacean Society conference, Cadiz, March 2011. (2011 - 2011) | |
2008 - 2008 | Co-convenor of Workshop on Marine Mammals in the Arts and Social Sciences, European Cetacean Society conference, Egmond aan Zee, February 2008. (2008 - 2008) | |
2007 - 2007 | Co-convenor of Workshop on Sperm Whale ecology and Conservation, Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial conference, Capetown, December 2007 (2007 - 2007) | |
2005 - 2005 | Member of Organising Committee for the ICES Annual Science Conference, Aberdeen, 2005. (2005 - 2005) | |
2004 - 2004 | Co-convenor of Theme Sessions at the ICES Annual Science Conference, on “Cephalopod Stocks: Review, Analyses, Assessment, and Sustainable Management”, Vigo, September 2004. (2004 - 2004) | |
2001 - 2001 | Co-convenor of Theme Session at the ICES Annual Science Conference on “The Response of Cephalopod Populations and Fisheries to Changing Environment and Ecosystems”, Oslo, September 2001. (2001 - 2001) |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020 - Current | Member, OSPAR Marine Mammal Expert Group (since 2020)
Member
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2019 - Current | Member, ASCOBANS Common Dolphin Group (since 2019)
Member
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2018 - Current | Chair, ASCOBANS Working Group on Resource Depletion (2018 onwards)
President / Vice-president
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2017 - Current | Spanish delegate, Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) (since 2017)
Member
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International Whaling Commission, United Kingdom |
2017 - Current | Member, IWC Standing Working Group on Bycatch (since 2017). I am also working on a new initiative on pollution for the IWC´s
Conservation Committee.
Member
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International Whaling Commission, United Kingdom |
2015 - Current | Council member, Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC) (2015-2022 and 2006-2012, President 2009-2012, participant
in CIAC events since 1992)
Member
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2014 - Current | Member, ICES Working Group on Resilience in Marine Ecosystem Services (2014-onwards)
Member
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2011 - Current | Member of Board of Trustees, SeaWatch Foundation (Since 2011)
Member
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2005 - Current | Member, ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology (WGMME) (since 2005; co-chair 2015-2017)
Member
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2017 - 2022 | Co-chair, ICES Working Group on Cephalopod Fisheries and Life History (WGCEPH) (2017-2022; Chair 1999-2001 and 2008-2010,
member since 1991 (when it was the Study Group on Squid Biology)
President / Vice-president
|
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2014 - 2019 | Editorial Board member for Marine Biology (2014-2019)
Member
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2014 - 2016 | Member, ICES Benchmark Steering Group (BSG) (2014-2016)
Member
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2012 - 2016 | Chair, ICES (SCICOM) Steering Group on Ecosystem Processes and Dynamics (SSGEPD, formerly the Steering Group on Ecosystem
Function SSGEF) (2012-2016)
President / Vice-president
|
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2012 - 2016 | Member, ICES Science Committee (SCICOM) (2012-2016). As such, I was a co-author of the ICES Science Plan 2014-2018
Member
|
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2007 - 2011 | Publications Editor, European Cetacean Society, 2008-2011 (Secretary 2007-2008, Member of Council 2007-2011; society member
since 1997)
Member
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Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2018 - Current | Invited Expert at various meetings of the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS), including the Advisory Committee in 2018 and 2019, the North Sea Group in 2018 and 2021, the Intersessional Working Group on National Reporting (2018-2019), and the Meeting of Parties in 2020. | |
2015 - Current | External Assessor for job promotion, University of Malaysia (Since 2015) | |
2018 - 2020 | Assessing Options for Non-lethal Seal deterrents (Marine Management Organisation - UK / ABPMER) | |
2018 - 2019 | Analysis of shorewatch data. | Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, United Kingdom |
2018 - 2018 | Analysis of cetacean stomach contents (SRUC) | |
2013 - 2016 | Hosting North Sea Bird Club (North Sea Bird Club - with Prof Monty Priede) | |
2012 - 2016 | Age Determination of Cetaceans (Scottish Agricultural College - total of 3 awards) | |
2014 - 2014 | Report on age determination methods for marine mammals (Age Dynamics) | |
2012 - 2012 | Can Essential Habitat Modelling For The Lesser Octopus Eledone cirrhosa Help Identify Key Areas For Risso’s Dolphin Grampus griseus In Scottish Waters? (Scottish Natural Heritage) | |
2010 - 2010 | Historical evidence of a size-structured effect of fishing on fish biodiversity (Marine Science Scotland) | |
2007 - 2007 | Assessment of the Norwegian Saithe Fisheries Against the Marine Stewardship Council Standard for Fisheries (Moody Marine Ltd) | |
2004 - 2007 | Collaborative research into the occurrence, distribution and habitat preferences of cetaceans on the west coast of Scotland (Dstl Commercial Services - Ministry of Defence - Joint contract-holder with Dr Colin MacLeod) | |
2006 - 2006 | Department of Trade and Industry Strategic Environmental Assessment: An Overview of Cephalopods Relevant to the SEA7 area and Review of Cephalopod Ecology (G8EOTEK) | |
2005 - 2006 | Squid Fishing Trials (Western Isles Fishermen's Association) | |
2005 - 2005 | Department of Trade and Industry Strategic Environmental Assessment: An Overview of Cephalopods Relevant to the SEA6 Area (GEOTEK - Part of larger DTI-funded programme) |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2001 - 2011 | Editorial Board of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2008-2011), Scientia Marina (2001-2009), Iranian Journal of Fisheries Science (2007-08). |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2012 | Visiting Chair in Marine Studies at University of Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Caixa Geral de Depositos, Portugal |
2006 | CEC FP6 Marie Curie Chair
European Commission, Belgium
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1994 | Royal society travel grants for attendance at the International Symposium on the Biology of Marine Mammals in the Northeast Atlantic |
1987 | Royal Society travel grants for attendance at the Biennial Conferences on the Biology of Marine Mammals |