Monitorização das Massas de Água Interiores e de Transição da Região Hidrográfica dos Açores, SRAM – 23/DRA/2014. Instituto de Inovação Tecnológica dos Açores/Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso; 2015-2018, Vitor Gonçalves (PI), Pedro Raposeiro, Ana Costa, Helena Marques, Joana Vilaverde, Ana Balibrea, Rúben Luz.
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
