Students

Supervisor: Priscila F. M. Lopes

‪Current students  

Iohara Quirino


Iohara has a background in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2017) where she is currently getting her masters degree student. She is studying the Brazilian reef landscapes using an ethnoecological approach to understand how these landscapes have changed over the years. She is doing that by interviewing fishermen, divers and researchers familiar with the Brazilian coast. Her research interests also include marine ecotourism and conservation of cetaceans.


Carolina Freitas


Carolina has a background in Biology and a master's degree in Ecology at the National Institute of Amazon Researches (INPA). She is currently a PhD student in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Her thesis is about fisheries co-management in the Amazon region, joining ecological, social and economic aspects.
e-mail: carol.tavares.freitas@gmail.com



‪Past students

Maria Clara Bezerra

Clara has a background in Biology, from the University of Pernambuco, a master's degree from the Rural Federal University of Pernambuco. She just finished her PhD student in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Her thesis was about understanding resource use by small communities and its implications for conservation. Specifically, she tried to understand such issues using the lens of socio-ecological resilience and co-management to see how well communities living in the Brazilian semi-arid would respond to the establishment of parks.
e-mail: mclara.btc@gmail.com

Co-Supervisor: Maria Grazia Pennino

Julia Tovar Verba

Julia has a degree in Biology and a master´s degree in Ecology at the National Institute of Amazon Research, where she studied fish paternity. She just finished her PhD at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. In her thesis she integrated fishers´ knowledge and scientific occurrence data to build distribution and abundance models for four marine fishes of economic interest for Brazil.
e-mail: juliatovarv@gmail.com


Ludmila Damasio

Ludmila has a undergrad in Biological Sciences and a Master degree in Development and Environment. During two years, after the undergrad, works in a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) specialised in research and protection of sea turtles (TAMAR Project), with environmental education and writing reports. Currently she is an analyst at Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program and she just finished her PhD at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Ludmila is interested in human ecology, fisher's ecological knowledge, management and sustainable fisheries.

e-mail: ludmila.damasio@hotmail.com


Monalisa Rodrigues
Monalisa got her bachelor and masters´ degree and her PhD at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Her research approaches the management potential of coastal fishing villages, through analyses of their socio-ecological vulnerability and conflict over the use of ecosystem services. She is interested in Human Ecology, conservation and management of fishing resources, sustainability of human communities, co-management and spatial resilience.
e-mail: moninharodrigues@yahoo.com.br


Supervisor: Adriana R. Carvalho

‪Current students

Nádia Selene Zamboni

Nádia concluded her bachelor in Biology at National University of Cordoba, Argentine, got her master degree in Environment and Human Health at Federal University of Pernambuco and is currently a PhD candidate in the Ecology Program at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Her PhD focuses on the economic valuation of ecosystem services of coastal zones under different degrees of environmental vulnerability and how climate change would affect the more sensitive environments as well as local dwellers, by changing economic provision through ecosystem services changing/decreasing.  

 
‪Geovanine Araújo Alves
Geovaninne has a background in Biology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and she is pursuing master degree in Development and Environment. Her goal is to designing integrated bioeconomic model and fisheries value chain to understand how market demand and economic incentives influences the harvest upon vulnerable coral reef species.



Past students

‪Adriana Pelegrini Manhães

Adriana got her bachelor in Forest Engineering at Rural Federal University Rural of Rio de Janeiro, master degree Tropical Forest Sciences at National Institute of Amazon Researches (INPA) in Manaus and PhD at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, supervised by Adriana Carvalho. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow interested in landscape conservation and ecology. Her research is focused on the relationship between ecosystem services and biodiversity on a local and landscape scales. She is also interested on how land use affects plant biodiversity and services provision as well as their economic values.

‪Natália Roos


Natalia got her bachelor and masters´ degree and PhD in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Her masters research approached parrotfish fishery, in which the modeling of sensitive parrotfish habitats and gear selectivity was addressed. Currently, her post-doc associates habitat preferences, demography and molecular tools aiming to assess the vulnerability of the endemic and endangered Greenbeak parrotfish (Scarus trispinosus), with the goal of subsidizing actions for the species conservation.

e-mail: nataliaroos@gmail.com

Supervisor: Maria Grazia Pennino

Cristina González Andrés

Cristina is a biologist with two master's degrees, one in Biostatistic and another in Sustainable Management of Coastal and Marine Systems. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Alicante (Spain). Her research topic is related to develop an analytical framework for understanding the distribution of elasmobranchs and pelagic fish species (Thunnus albacares) under fishing pressure on Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica). Specifically, she is using spatial-temporal models with a Bayesian approach. This methodology has as main objective to contribute to the sustainable management of these small-scale fisheries and their resources and be a benchmark for other offshore marine protected areas.

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