CIEMAR

Teaching

Scientific and logistic support has been given to undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the University of Évora and other universities, Portuguese or not (e.g. Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade do Algarve, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, University of Plymouth, University College Cork), as well as to teachers training courses and advanced courses.

Classes have been taught every semester in marine biology and ecology, namely coastal ecology, biology and conservation of marine resources, and marine pollution, as well as in other areas of biological and geological sciences. Research has been done for the completion of undergraduate, master and PhD theses (see Research section).

University of Évora main courses taught with the support of CIEMAR in the last few years are:

  • graduation in Biology, and in Biology and Geology (Invertebrate Biology, Marine Biology, Vertebrate Biology, Mediterranean Flora and Vegetation, Marine Pollution and Conservation, and Project in Biological Sciences II);
  • master in Management and Conservation of Natural Resources (Management and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems, and Management and Conservation of Marine Shore Ecosystems);
  • master in Aquaculture Engineering and Management (Aquaculture and Environmental Sustainability).

In general, classes are intensive during short periods (three to six days, normally). Accomodation of students and teachers at CIEMAR during these periods is possible.

Several types of classes are taught in CIEMAR, namely laboratory practical classes, field work classes and lectures.

Subjects taught in laboratory practical classes of CIEMAR are, for example:

  • external and internal anatomy of marine fishes and invertebrates;
  • taxonomical identification and ecology of marine seaweed, fishes and invertebrates;
  • taxonomical identification of marine zooplankton;
  • pollution effects in invertebrates (imposex in gastropod molluscs);
  • statistical analysis of marine ecology data.

Using nearby shore systems and the Port of Sines, field work classes have been taught with the support of CIEMAR in the following subjects:

  • biology, abundance and distribution of zooplankton, macrobenthos and fishes in estuaries and oceanic coasts (sedimentary and rocky shores);
  • rocky shore fisheries, and opinion of fishermen on marine conservation and fisheries management;
  • taxonomy, morphology, ecology, conservation and catch (fisheries techniques and management) of marine fishes sold at the fishing port of Sines;
  • coastal sediment dynamics and morphodynamic processes in rocky and sandy shores;
  • marine monitoring in the Port of Sines.