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Services

As diferentes competências em investigação e desenvolvimento permitem ao CIBIO-Açores prestar serviços em áreas muito diversas, tanto em ambiente terrestre como em meio marinho, e também em sistemas dulçaquícolas. Elencam-se abaixo as áreas onde o CIBIO-Açores poderá desenvolver atividades de prestação de serviços, em conjunto com entidades públicas e privadas.

Environmental Monitoring
  • Geological and paleoenvironmental identification and description of fossil deposits
  • Long-term impact assessment of environmental (volcanic and climate) and anthropogenic changes through the application of paleolimnological and ecological methods
  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Pliocene and Pleistocene coastal marine ecosystems
  • Morphological and genetic identification of marine, freshwater and terrestrial organisms, including hybrids, and determination of their origin
  • Monitoring, environmental quality and impact assessment, biodiversity inventory and consultancy on marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, including agricultural areas, pastures and forests
  • Definition of the conservation status of indigenous species and identification of priority invasive species
  • Early detection and assessment of public health risk by the presence of cyanotoxins in the aquatic environment
  • Impact assessment of tourism activity on ecosystems
Environmental management
  • Land use planning and general planning studies
  • Strategic and sectorial plans for natural resource management and conservation
  • Environmental management plans and action plans
  • Consultancy on endemic and native taxa conservation actions in the Azores, including translocations and establishment of ex situ collections
  • Risk assessment associated with the introduction of alien species
  • Assessment of tourist load capacity
Environmental Valorization
  • Tourism and educational valorization of fossil deposits
  • Quantification of ecosystem services
  • Forest resource assessment including dendrometry, dendrochronology and spatial modelling
  • Characterization and valorization of natural and rural areas, walking trails and underwater routes with potential for tourism 
  • Projects and actions related to the dissemination and valorization of the natural heritage
  • Isolation, cultivation and economic valorization of algae and cyanobacteria as biotechnological resources

 

Past Services to community

MACFLOR

Estudo de Populações Naturais ou Cultivadas e Caracterização Micro-morfológica, Ajuste Direto Nº 33/Azorina/2017 para Aquisição de Serviços de Estudo de Populações Naturais ou Cultivadas e Caracterização Micro-morfológica. 2018-2019, Mónica Moura (PI), Luís Silva.

Avaliação de Riscos de inundações Costeiras

Decreto Lei n.º 115/2010, de 22 de outubro que transpõe a Diretiva 2007/60/CE, do parlamento europeu e do Conselho, de 23 de outubro – 2º Ciclo de Planeamento. Estudo adjudicado pela Direção Regional do Ambiente/Direção Regional dos Assuntos do Mar 2018-2020, João Porteiro (Coordenador).

ULTRASAC

Efeito dos ultrassons na abundância e biomassa de cianobactérias na lagoa Verde. Direção de Serviços de Recursos Hídricos e Ordenamento do Território; 2018-2019, CIBIO Participation: Vitor Gonçalves (PI), Joana Vilaverde.