CIIMAR’s Oceanus Seminar with Irene Martins | Boca da Baleia
SHIFT-MARES examines how food web modelling links to ecosystem services and tourism to anticipate how climate change and other human pressures may affect coastal tourism in Portugal. The project will quantify tourism-related ecosystem services by comparing present-day conditions with future scenarios. Given its one-year duration, SHIFT-MARES will focus on a nationally important tourism hotspot: the Ria Formosa lagoon in the Algarve. Implementation will be co-developed with public-sector stakeholders, and additional actors who will be consulted throughout the project. Key outputs—a policy brief, a technical report and a participatory workshop—will support decision-making on adaptation and resilience in Ria Formosa under multiple stressors. Once calibrated, the approach can be transferred to other Portuguese coastal areas.
Irene Martins holds a PhD in Ecology, with expertise in coastal ecology and marine ecosystem modelling. She has developed and applied ecological models spanning population dynamics to bioenergetics, studying organisms from coastal macroalgae and marine invertebrates to seabirds and deep-sea species. In recent years, her work has focused on ecosystem and food web models as integrative tools to understand marine systems. Working in multidisciplinary teams, she has led numerical frameworks supporting Environmental Risk Assessment, particularly for climate change and other key stressors affecting coastal and marine ecosystems.
In case of any questions, please contact CIIMAR’s Seminar team, Marta Monteiro, Miguel Semedo, & Paulo Oliveira, at seminars@ciimar.up.pt
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