Teresa Drago runs the Marine Geosciences Unit at IPMA’s Experimental Molusciculture Station, Tavira (EEMT) in the Algarve. She was awarded her PhD in the field of Marine Geology at the University of Bordeaux in 1995. After this, she took a post-doctoral position at IPMA between 1996-1998 and in 1999, she joined IPMA.

Teresa’s main interests are related with sedimentological studies of marine sediments. Her formerly funded projects were focused on: 1)  reconstructing paleoenvironmental changes using sediment cores from the northern Portuguese continental shelf and adjacent estuaries, in relation with climatic and sea-level changes (1996-2005); 2) reconstruction of fish populations variations for the last millennia, based on fish scales preserved in  continental shelf sediments off Algarve (2006-2009); 3) shoreface morphodynamics off Tavira based on the knowledge of physical, geological and biological processes (2012-2015);  4). dredging impacts on benthic communities’ within the Algarvian continental shelf (2017-2021).

Currently, the group is investigating the following lines of research in collaboration with several partners (IDL, FCUL, CCMAR, CIMA, ISEL, EMEPC and Instituto de Ciències del Mar, Spain), namely:

• Identification and sedimentological character-ization of submarine mounts landslides based on marine sediment core analyses (MONTERA project);
• Tsunami and paleo-tsunami backwash deposits preserved in sedimentary records from the continental shelf (FP7 ASTARTE project). These studies are crucial to determine the recurrence rate which in turn improves accuracy of prediction of future tsunamis and improves risk assessment;
• Characterization of the impact of sand extraction and evaluation of the sedimentary recovery of some borrow areas off the coast of Vilamoura and Albufeira (ECOEXA – MAR2020).

Teresa has authored and co-authored over 55 scientific papers and 1360 citations. and has an h-index of 17.

Ciência ID: C719-90AE-DAC7

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3496-3270