“The 18th annual edition of the International Workshop – Palaeontology in Atlantic Islands (18th PAI) will take place in Santa Maria, between July 7 and 16, organized by the Marine Palaeontology & Biogeography Lab of CIBIO-Açores (Universidade dos Açores). https://www.researchgate.net/lab/MPB-Marine-Palaeontology-and-Biogeography-lab-Sergio-P-Avila As in previous editions, the 18th PAI is dedicated to the paleontological heritage of Santa Maria Island and will bring together internationally recognized specialists in the most diverse areas of geology, biology and palaeontology. It will include visits to the fossiliferous outcrops of Santa Maria, and the usual evening sessions of lectures at the Dalberto Pombo Environmental Interpretation Center (open to the public, without the need for prior registration).”

The AzSS – Azores Summer School follows the need and ambition to create a complete, high-quality multidisciplinary course on Marine Island (Palaeo)Biogeography, gathering internationally recognized

Enquadrado no programa de webinários Luso Americanos ScienceOn by UAc patrocinados pelo American Corner da UAc, o CIBIO Açores promove a realização do CIBIO-Açores Nature Webinar Series 2021 que constitui uma série de 4 seminários online por cientistas e académicos de várias universidades americanas, com o objetivo de promover os laços educacionais e de investigação entre o EUA e Portugal, assinalando várias datas importantes relacionadas com a investigação desenvolvida no CIBIO e com as temáticas lecionadas no âmbito das ciências naturais da FCT_UAc. Assim, o CIBIO-Açores irá celebrar o Dia Internacional da Terra, 22 de Abril, promovendo a consciência ambiental para a necessidade de preservar a biodiversidade e áreas protegidas do planeta; adoção de boas práticas de turismo sustentável, com a palestra "Research and monitoring of visitor use and impacts in global protected areas: recent trends and future needs" que será proferida pelo Prof. Yu-Fai Leung da Universidade da Carolina do Norte, pelas 17 horas (hora Açores). A inscrição é feita por email, sendo necessária para aceder ao evento através da plataforma zoom, e para obter confirmação de participação.

Enquadrado no programa de webinários Luso Americanos “ScienceOn by Uac”, patrocinados pelo American Corner da UAc, o CIBIO Açores promove a realização do CIBIO-Açores Nature Webinar Series 2021, que constitui uma série de seminários virtuais por cientistas e académicos de várias universidades americanas, com o objetivo de promover os laços educacionais e de investigação entre os EUA e Portugal, no âmbito da investigação desenvolvida no CIBIO. Este webinário decorrerá no próximo dia 21 de abril, pelas 15:00 (hora dos Açores), com a participação do Professor Erle C. Ellis, da Universidade de Maryland, Baltimore County. Será abordado o tema das alterações globais e regionais do coberto vegetal, ou seja, a transição dos biomas como tipos de vegetação natural dependentes do clima, para formações de origem antrópica, designadas como antromas. O evento contará também com investigadores que abordam estas alterações nos Açores e em Cabo Verde, recorrendo a métodos ecológicos e paleolimnológicos. A inscrição é feita por email, sendo necessária para aceder ao evento através da plataforma zoom, e para obter confirmação de participação.

CIBIO-Açores, the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources – Azores, is based at the University of the Azores while constituting a research group of InBIO, the Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. In 2020 it included 92 researchers: 25 PhDs (11 professors, 1 principal researcher, 2 junior researchers and 11 post-doc fellows), 11 PhD students, 7 MSc students and 49 research fellows. In 2020 the center published 41 papers and managed to obtain funding at national and international levels. Since its establishment in 2006, the center is devoted to the development of high-level research in biodiversity using the Azores and other island systems as models. Its areas of activity span from coastal biotopes to natural and exotic forests but also include freshwater ecology, paleoecology, and paleontology.

CIBIO-Açores, the Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources – Azores, is based at the University of the Azores while constituting a research group of InBIO, the Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. In 2020 it included 92 researchers: 25 PhDs (11 professors, 1 principal researcher, 2 junior researchers and 11 post-doc fellows), 11 PhD students, 7 MSc students and 49 research fellows. In 2020 the center published 41 papers and managed to obtain funding at national and international levels. Since its establishment in 2006, the center is devoted to the development of high-level research in biodiversity using the Azores and other island systems as models. Its areas of activity span from coastal biotopes to natural and exotic forests but also include freshwater ecology, paleoecology, and paleontology.

A passion for algal biodiversity Suzanne Fredericq Suzanne Fredericq is a Professor of Biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a long-time collaborator with University of the Azores. She comes from Belgian families of scholars, including female pioneers in law, arts and science. Her scientific career started as a girl with a Weizmann Institute Fellowship for high school graduates, and continued to become one of the most respected algal specialists. She will talk about her passion for algal biodiversity and her field of study - the systematics of marine red algae, a field concerned with detecting patterns of evolutionary relationships among the species under study. She will illustrate how her approach to seaweed research would certainly have been less joyful if it weren't for experiencing analogies in biological structure and process, and in visual art. She will address how the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar, her mother, instilled in her a love of art and aesthetics, how the writer Suzanne Lilar, her grandmother, instilled in her a love of intellectual pursuit, and how the painter Eugene J. Martin, her husband, crystallized in her the combination of both.