Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- VALENTINA COSTA
Citation names
- COSTA, VALENTINA
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8911-57CC-C35E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1513-0284
- Google Scholar ID
- Lr1uPrcAAAAJ&hl
- Researcher Id
- A-8319-2015
Email addresses
- vale.costa@gmail.com (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Portuguese | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2016/09/24 - 2016/09/30
Concluded
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Summer school in “Scientific diving” (Postgraduate Certificate)
OGS ”ECCSEL-NatLab Italy”, Italy
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2015/05/04 - 2015/05/08
Concluded
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Data Exploration, linear, regression, GLM and GAM with R (Postgraduate Certificate)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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2013/05/28 - 2013/05/31
Concluded
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Statistics and Numerical Skills: Multivariate Analysis (Postgraduate Certificate)
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany
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2013/05/06 - 2013/05/11
Concluded
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Effects of increased CO2/Ocean Acidification on seagrass meadows (Postgraduate Certificate)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium |
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2013
Concluded
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Ecology (Doutoramento)
Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
"Seagrass detritus dynamics in marine ecosystems: assessment along confinement and ocean acidification gradients" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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PhD in "Ecology" |
2012/08/20 - 2012/08/31
Concluded
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Experimental design and data analysis for marine scientists (Postgraduate Certificate)
Göteborgs universitet Sven Lovén centrum för marina vetenskaper Tjärnö, Sweden
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2012/04/01 - 2012/06
Concluded
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Monitoring and Sustainable Management of Marine Ecosystems (Master)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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2011/04/04 - 2011/04/06
Concluded
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Training SEM-EDS (Postgraduate Certificate)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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2010/04/01 - 2010/07/31
Concluded
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Monitoring and Sustainable Management of Aquatic Ecosystems (Master)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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2009
Concluded
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Master Degree in "Marine Biological Resources" (Mestrado)
Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Italy
"Ecological role of Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin 1788 (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) in the recycling of organic matter in Posidonia
oceanica ecosystem" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Master Degree in "Marine Biological Resources" |
2007/04
Concluded
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Biology (Licenciatura)
Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Italy
"Transfer of organic matter and contaminants in the Stagnone Protected Area (Sicily, Italy): methodological aspects and technical
approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Bachelor Degree in "Biology" |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/10/01 - 2019/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
2018/03/15 - 2018/05/27 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | MARBEC, France |
2017/06/12 - 2017/10/31 | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Archipelagos NGO, Institute of Marine Conservation, Greece |
2014/07/01 - 2016/06/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Italy |
2012/12/27 - 2013/06/17 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/10/01 - 2020/03/31 | BIOPRADARIA - Restoration, management & conservation of biodiversity & biological resources associated with Ria de Aveiro
seagrass ecosystems
MAR-01.04.02- FEAMP-0020
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2018/07/01 - 2018/08/15 | Site search, field assessment and monitoring of Pinna nobilis
D.M. 11 febbraio 2015 sulla Marine Strategy
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2018/03/01 - 2018/05/25 | Zostera noltei detritus as a Blue Carbon source in the Étang de Thau (France)
Premio Luigi e Francesca Brusarosco
Research Fellow
MARBEC, France
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Concluded
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2016/07/01 - 2016/11/30 | Responses of benthic and fish community associated with Posidonia oceanica after restoration activity
Project PON 2007-2013 “Marine Hazard”
Post-doc Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2016/07 - 2016/11 | Responses of benthic and fish community associated with Posidonia oceanica after restoration activity
Project PON 2007-2013 Marine Hazard
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N/A |
2014/07/01 - 2016/06/30 | Test of growth of echinoderms with formulated feed and evaluation of environmental sustainability
Post-doc Fellow
Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Italy
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Concluded
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2012/12 - 2013/06 | Analysis of the ocean acidification effects on the decomposition dynamic of seagrass detritus: a mesocosm experiment
International Training Fellowship
Post-doc Fellow
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany
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Concluded
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2011/11 - 2012/06 | Analysis of the ocean acidification effects on the decomposition dynamic of seagrass detritus
Project MEDSEA
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2010/09 - 2011/08 | Evaluation of trophic processes in natural marine-coastal area and in aquaculture systems: analysis of organic matter transfer
in trophic net and evaluation of decomposition rates
CISAC Fellowship
Research Fellow
Centro Interdipartimentale per lo Studio dell?ecologia degli Ambienti Costieri, CISAC, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2011/02 - 2011/02 | MEDSEA “European Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate”
Project MEDSEA
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
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2009/06 - 2009/06 | Posidonia oceanica meadow (codice habitat 1120) of Maddalena Archipelago as potential atmospheric CO2 sink
Project MATTM CountDown_Posidonia
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2009/02 - 2009/03 | Evaluation of biological resources – data analysis for scientific and technical support for the participation of the Italian
Government in international activities relating to cetaceans, evaluation of bycatch in pelagic trawling
Project MIPAF BYCATCH II
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
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2007/10 - 2007/10 | Evaluation of biological resources – data analysis for scientific and technical support for the participation of the Italian
Government in international activities relating to cetaceans, evaluation of bycatch in pelagic trawling
Project MIPAF BYCATCH II
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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2007/06 - 2007/06 | Strengthening and developing of guidelines to assess the environmental effects of aquaculture by floating cages in the Gulf
of Castellammare
Project Gulf of Castellammare
Research Fellow
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Italy
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2011/01 - 2012/01 | Sabellaria alveolata (Anellida Polychaeta) biocostructions as natural structures for the coastal protection from erosion
Azione 7 "Giovani e Lavoro"
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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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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2018/06/02 | Development of an efficient and cost effective tool for mapping Posidonia oceanica in the eastern Aegean | 12th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography & Fisheries
(Corfù , Greece)
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2017/09/12 | Response of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica and associated vagile invertebrates in volcanic vents | SItE, Naples (Italy)
(Naples, Italy)
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2017/05/03 | Response of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica to hydrothermal emissions in volcanic vents | XIII Incontro dei Dottorandi in Ecologia e Scienze dei Sistemi Acquatic
(Palermo, Italy)
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2015/09/21 | Community and trophic structure of amphipod assemblages associated to Posidonia oceanica in a shallow volcanic CO2 vent | EEF SItE Ecology at the Interface
(Rome, Italy)
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2013/08/18 | Bottom-up control on macrobenthic communities in a guanotrophic coastal system | INTECOL
(London, United Kingdom)
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2012/11/25 | Seagrass response to high CO2 in volcanic vents | 10th International Seagrass Biology Workshop (ISBW10)
(Armação dos Búzios, Brazil)
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2012/10/29 | Macrobenthic communities impoverishment in response to seabird input in a mediterranean transitional area | VI Congresso LaguNet
(Cagliari, Italy)
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2012/09/10 | Studio della dinamica di decomposizione del detrito fogliare di Posidonia oceanica lungo un gradiente di confinamento in un’area siciliana a caratteristiche lagunari (Stagnone di Marsala) | XXII Congresso Nazionale S.It.E
(Alessandria, Italy)
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2012/08/20 | Trophic structure of vermetid reef community: high trophic diversity at small spatial scales | ISOECOL 2012
(Brest, France)
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2011/10/19 | Dinamica del detrito fogliare fanerogamico lungo un gradiente di confinamento in un’area costiera a caratteristiche lagunari | V congresso di LaguNet
(Lesina, Italy)
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2010/10/27 | Trace metal transfer in the food webs of a semi-enclosed coastal ecosystem (Stagnone di Marsala, Sicily, Italy) | IV Congresso LaguNet
(Marsala, Italy)
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2009/05/26 | Indagine sul contributo delle fonti bentoniche e planctoniche alla rete trofica del reef a vermeti | 40° S.I.B.M.
(Livorno, Italy)
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2009/01/25 | The fate of terrestrial and riverine materials in a Mediterranean exploitation seagrass bed | ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting
(Nice, France)
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2009/01/15 | Trophic structure and functioning of vermetid reef community based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis | The First Mediterranean Symposium on the Coralligenous
(Tabarka, Tunisia)
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2007/09/16 | Ichthyofauna trophic structure from three adjacent mediterranean lagoons | International Symposium ECSA 42. Estuarine ecosystems: structure, function and management
(Kaliningrad-Svetlogorsk, Russia)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2012/06 - 2013/06 | STUDIO DELL’EPIFAUNA ASSOCIATA ALLO STRATO FOGLIARE DI POSIDONIA OCEANICA IN UN’AREA INTERESSATA DA EMISSIONI DI CO2
Co-supervisor of Lorenzo Evola
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Marine Ecology (Master)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2018/03 - Current | Society for Experimental Biology |
Distinctions
Award
2018 | Best Oral Presentation for the Communication “Development of an efficient and cost effective tool for mapping Posidonia oceanica in the eastern Aegean” |
2017 | "Luigi e Francesca Brusarosco" Italian Society of Ecology
Società Italiana di Ecologia, Italy
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2009 | Degree Award “Banco di Sicilia”
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
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