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