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The head of the Lisbon Unit, Fatima Abrantes, is interviewed on the science podcast  “ciência com impacto”

“If we want to predict the future evolution of the Earth’s climate we need to know its past. This is the motto of Fátima Abrantes’ research – a paleoceanographer from IPMA and CCMAR – Centro de Ciências do Mar. And to achieve this goal, the sediments of the ocean floor, shell fossils of bivalves and the eternal ice of the Arctic and Antarctic are studied.”

You can listen to the podcast here: https://cienciacomimpacto.pt/pt/media/podcasts/podcast-t2e6-fatima-abrantes-conhecer-clima-passado-para-prever-futuro

Lelia Matos presented her newly funded project “CoralOx”, within the MIT-Portugal Program. This exploratory project will investigate the applicability of cold-water coral chromium-isotopes as a proxy for suboxic ocean conditions. The project will run from July 2021-June2022, in a joint collaboration between IPMA, CCMAR and the EAPS, at MIT. Part of the laboratorial work will be developed at the EMSO-PT Clean Lab, at IPMA, Algés.

Meeting: 2020 MIT Portugal Annual Conference

Session: session #2 – Earth Systems: Ocean to Near Space

Added: Website meeting: https://www.mitportugal.org/annual-conference/2020-about

Website poster: https://mitportugal.eposters.pt/eposters/003/

Master student, Ricardo Santos, put together this video to show the preparation and work that goes into each biomarker sample.

Ricardo’s dissertation is entitled “Hydroclimate reconstruction of Western Iberia over the last 3600 years – insights from lipid biomarker and specific isotope signal”, and all data was generated in the Biogeochemistry Lab at the Lisbon Unit. The work forms part of the project Holmodrive (PTDC/CTA-GEO/29029/2017) (http://holmodrive.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/).

You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWDSYIWuOYk

Finally, we are happy to announce the launch of the EMSO Gold Website. The site showcases each laboratory and the equipment available. As part of the objective of EMSO Portugal, the laboratories are open to researchers at all levels of their career – just send your questions or enquiries through the “contacts” page.

The website was funded by EMSO Link – an Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program, Grant Agreement No. 731036.