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          | Filipa Bessa |  
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          | MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |  
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          | tel. | +351 239 837797 |  
          | fax. | +351 239 823603 |  
          | email | afbessa@uc.pt |  
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                | 2006 | Graduation | Biology | University of Coimbra |  
			  
                | 2008 | MSc | Ecology | University of Coimbra |  
			  
                | 2014 | PhD | Marine Ecology | University of Coimbra and University of Florence |  |  
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          | 3. area of scientific activity |  
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          | domain of specialization |  
          | Marine and Coastal Ecology Use of ecological indicators to assess environmental quality of coastal ecosystems (namely sandy beaches)
 Behavioural Ecology (orientation and endogenous rhythms of talitrid amphipods)
 Throphic network analysis (stable isotopes)
 European Directives implementation: Water Framework Directive (WFD) and European Marine Strategy
 Framework Directive (MSFD)
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          | present investigation interests |  
          | Assessment of plastic and microplastic pollution in coastal and marine ecosystems Development of methodologies for extraction of microplastics from environmental samples (water, sediments and biota)
 Marine litter monitoring programmes
 European Directives implementation: Water Framework Directive (WFD) and European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
 Citizen Science
 Policy and Governance
 Science communication and environmental education
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          | 2018: invited for practical lecture in the subject Biology II entitled "Microplastics in marine ecosystems".
 Degree in Biology, Coimbra, Portugal.
 
 2014-2018: theoretical and practical lectures in the subject of Biology and Marine Ecology, Degree in Biology, Coimbra, Portugal.
 
 2017-2018: Referee of the Special Sessions at International Scientific Committee of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL2018) and at IX Simpósio sobre a Margem Ibérica Atlântica (MIA2018).
 
 2018: Coordination of the workshop “Talitraits” funded by LifeWatch-WoRMS and ModelPlastics (Euromarine foresight workshop).
 
 2017/2018: Organization of a public exhibition entitled “The Era of Marine Litter” at Núcleo Museológico do Mar (Buarcos) and a workshop for teacher and educators entitled “ Literacy of Marine litter” accredited by Ordem dos Biólogos.
 
 2016-2018: Member of Organizing Committee of 1º CPLM - Conferência Portuguesa sobre Lixo Marinho and MIA2018.
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          | 4. coordination/participation of research projects |  
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          |  With Portuguese national financial support |  
          | As coordinator/co-coordinator: 
 Title: UAS4LITTER - Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAs) for marine litter coastal mapping
 Duration: 2018-2020
 Funding: FCT (PTDC/EAM-REM/30324/2017)
 Coordination: Dr. Gil Gonçalves and Dr. Filipa Bessa (Co-IR)
 
 Title: lixomarinho.app  - Citizen science platform to collect and map marine litter on sandy beaches.
 Duration: from 2018
 Funding: CentroAdapt – Ignition grant - Centro 2020
 Coordinator: Filipa Bessa
 
 
 As Team Member:
 
 Title: RIVERSEA - Land-based sources of marine litter and microplastics. Evaluation and modelling of the input from rivers and estuaries and implementation of prevention and reduction strategies at the source
 Duration: 2018-2020
 Funding: FCT (PTDC/EAM-AMB/30726/2017)
 Coordination: Dr. Paula Sobral
 
 Title: CENTROADAPT – Centro de Vanguarda em Adaptações às Alterações Climáticas (SAAC 000140)
 Duration: 2017-2019
 Support: Centro 2020
 Coordinator: João Carlos Sousa Marques (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
 
 Title: SUSPENSE - Sustainable built environment under natural hazards and extreme events.
 Duration: 2017 – 2019
 Support: PT2020
 Coordinator: Prof. Luís Simões da Silva
 
 Title: 3M_RECITAL - ESTUÁRIOS DO MINHO, MONDEGO E MIRA, observatórios: Variações do estado ecológico a longo prazo originadas por pressões naturais e humanas. implicações na gestão e recuperação
 Duration: 2011-2014
 Support: FCT, Portugal (Proposal/Contract nº LTER/BIA-BEC/0019/2009).
 Funding: 199.932,00 €.
 Coordinator: João Carlos Sousa Marques (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
 
 Title: RECONNECT (System dynamic response to an ample artificial RE-establishment of the upstream CONNECTion between the two arms of  the Mondego estuary (Portugal): Implications for recovery, ecological
 quality status, and management)
 Duration: 2008-2011
 Funding: FCT (contract: PTDC/MAR/64627/2006PTDC/MAR/64627/2006)
 Coordinator: João Carlos Marques
 
 Title: BIOMA - Rede de Competência em Biónica sobre as Ciências do Mar na Região Centro de Portugal.
 Duration: 2008
 Funding: Program ICENTRO – Programa Regional de Acções Inovadoras da Região do Centro de Portugal 2006/2007 (n.º CCI 2005 PT 16 0 PP 002, European Comission)
 Coordinator: CITEVE – Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Têxtil e do Vestuário de Portugal
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          |  With international financial support |  
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 2018: Coordinator of the workshop Modelling Ocean Plastic Litter in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Mitigations - MODELPlastics (EM/PFB/2017.003).
 Funding: EuroMarine funds. Funding: 11475,00€ (9475,00€ + 2000,00€ extra fund).
 Coordination: Dr. Ana Marta Gonçalves, Dr. Filipa Bessa, Dr. Irene Martins. Co-coordination: Dr. Simone Libralato, Dr. Jesús Gago.
 
 Title: Impactos antrópicos em praias arenosas fluminenses: uma abordagem ecológica utilizando bioindicadores naturais.
 Duration: 2014
 Funding: Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - FAPERJ
 Coordination: Filipa Bessa; Ricardo Cardoso, UNIRIO, Brazil.
 
 
 As Team Member:
 
 Title: BASEMAN (Defining the baselines and standards for microplastics analyses in European waters
 biodiversity and assessing good environmental status.
 Duration: 2016 - 2018
 Funding: JPI OCEANS/FCT
 Coordinator: Gunnar Gerdts, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
 
 Title: SERMARE - Sensibilizar e Educar para uma Sociedade Azul / Raising awareness and educating for a blue society.
 Duration: 2016-2017
 Funding: Fondation Auchan pour la Jeunesse_France
 Coordinator: Zara Teixeira (IMAR; MARE-UC)
 
 Title: DEVOTES (Development of innovative tools for understanding marine
 biodiversity and assessing good environmental status.
 Duration: 2012 - 2016
 Funding: EU (FP7-ENV-308392)
 Coordinator: Angel Borja, AZTI Fundation, Spain
 
 
 In collaboration:
 
 Title: PLASTOX - Direct and indirect ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms.
 Duration: 2016 - 2018
 Funding: JPI OCEANS/FCT
 Coordinator: Andy Booth, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Environmental Technology Department, Trondheim.
 
 Title: RIMMEL (RIverine and Marine floating macro litter Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Loading). Member of the Riverine Litter Observation Network.
 Duration: 2016-2017
 Funding: European Commission, Joint Research Centre.
 Coordinator: Daniel Gonzalez and Georg Hank.
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          | 5. membership in scientific societies |  
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          | From 2018: Thematic Editor of World Amphipoda Database - (part of WoRMS - the World Register of Marine Species)
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          | 6. referee and editor of scientific journals |  
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          | Regular Referee of: 
 Ecological Indicators
 Acta Oecologica
 Biological Conservation
 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
 Marine Environmental Research
 Ocean and Coastal Management
 Estuaries and Coasts
 Marine Ecology Progress Series
 African Journal of Marine Science
 Journal of Sea Research
 Italian Journal of Zoology
 Plos One
 Journal of Marine Biology & Oceanography - SciTechnol
 Acta Ecologica Sinica
 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
 Ecosphere
 Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN)
 Scientific Reports
 Journal of Ethology
 Marine Pollution Bulletin
 Environmental Pollution
 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
 Regional Studies in Marine Science
 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
 
 Publons Profile:
 (https://publons.com/author/1291324/filipa-bessa#profile)
 
 
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          | 7. publications |  
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          | papers in international scientific periodicals with referee (ISI) |  
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          | - Scapini F, Bessa F, Gambineri S, Bozzeda F, 2019. Talitrid (Amphipoda, Talitridae) orientation as across scale bioindicator of sandy beaches environmental conditions: a meta-analytic approach. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science in press. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.02.037
 
 
 - Constantino  E, Martins I, Sierra JMS, Bessa F, 2019. Abundance and composition of floating marine macro litter on the eastern sector of the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 138, 260-265. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.008.
 
 - Bessa F, Barría P, Neto JN, Frias JPGL, Otero V, Sobral P, Marques JC, 2018. Ocurrence of microplastics in commercial fish from a natural estuarine environment. Marine Pollution Bulletin.128, 575-584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.01.044
 
 - Vendel AL, Bessa F, Alves VEN, Amorim ALA Patrício J, Palma ART, 2017. Widespread microplastic ingestion by fish assemblages in tropical estuaries subjected to anthropogenic pressures. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 117, 448-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.081.
 
 - Bessa F,  Scapini F, Cabrini  TMB, Cardoso RS, 2017. Behavioural responses of talitrid amphipods to recreational pressures on oceanic tropical beaches with contrasting extension. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 486, 170-177.
 
 - Bessa F, Marques JC, Scapini F, 2014. Behavioural adaptations of two sympatric sandhoppers living on a mesotidal European Atlantic sandy beach. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 147, 17-24.
 
 -  Bessa F, Gonçalves SC, Franco JN, André JN, Cunha PP, Marques JC, 2014. Temporal changes in macrofauna as response indicator to potential human pressures on sandy beaches. Ecological indicators 41, 49-57.
 
 - Bessa F, Baeta A, Marques JC, 2014. Niche segregation amongst sympatric species at exposed sandy shores with contrasting wrack availabilities illustrated by stable isotopic analysis. Ecological Indicators 36, 694-702.
 
 - Nourisson D, Bessa F, Scapini F, Marques JC, 2014. Macrofaunal community abundance and diversity and talitrid orientation as potential indicators of ecological long-term effects of a sand-dune recovery intervention. Ecological Indicators 36, 356-366.
 
 - Bessa F, Cunha D, Gonçalves SC, Marques JC, 2013. Sandy beach macrofaunal assemblages as indicators of anthropogenic impacts on coastal dunes. Ecological Indicators 30, 196-204.
 
 - Marques L, Carriço A, Bessa F, Gaspar R, Neto JM, Patrício J, 2013. Response of intertidal macrobenthic communities and primary producers to mitigation measures in a temperate estuary. Ecological Indicators 25, 10-22.
 
 - Bessa F, Rossano C, Nourisson D, Gambineri S, Marques JC, Scapini F, 2013. Behaviour of Talitrus saltator (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on a rehabilitated sandy beach on the European Atlantic Coast (Portugal). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 117, 168-177.
 
 - Costa S, Bessa F, Pardal MA 2013. The parasite Sacculina carcini Thompson, 1836 (Cirripedia, Rhizocephala) in the crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) (Decapoda, Portunidae): influence of environmental conditions, colour morphotype and sex. Crustaceana 86, 34-47.
 
 - Viegas I, Marques S, Bessa F, Primo  AL, Martinho F,  Azeiteiro UM, Pardal MA, 2011. Life history strategy of a southern European population of brown shrimp (Crangon  crangon L.): evidence for latitudinal changes in growth phenology and population dynamics. Marine Biology 159, 33-43.
 
 - Bessa F, Baeta A, Martinho F, Marques S, Pardal MA, 2010. Seasonal and temporal variations in population dynamics of the Carcinus maenas (L.): the effect of an extreme drought event in a southern European estuary. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 90, 867-876.
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          | proceedings of international meetings with referee |  
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          | 2018: Bessa F, Barría P, Neto J.M., Frias JPGL, Otero V, Sobral P, Marques JC, 2018.  Microplastics in juvenile commercial fish from a natural estuarine environment, from the book: Proceedings of the International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. Springer Water, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-71279-6. 
 2016: Bessa, Filipa; Barría, Pablo; Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C., Sobral, P. Occurrence of Potential Microplastics in Commercial Fish From an Estuarine Environment: Preliminary Results, DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-812271-6.00080-6 In book: Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems, pp.81-82.
 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128122716)
 
 2016: Martins I, Teixeira Z, Gonçalves A, Bessa F, Verissimo H, Vinagre P and Marques JC 2016. Evidence for the long-term contribution of upstream agricultural practices and land use on the biodiversity and function of an estuary and adjacent coastal areas. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research 2016. doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2016.04.00103
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          | national journals, from portugal or from abroad, with peer review |  
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          | proceedings of portuguese national meetings |  
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          | -	Cunha PP, Dias J, Veríssimo H, Duarte LV, Dinis PM, Lopes FC, Bessa F, Antunes JA. 2018. Book of Proceedings of the IX
 Symposium on the Iberian Atlantic Margin. ISBN: 978-989-
 98914-3-2.
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          | editorial and book reviews |  
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          | technical reports |  
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          | -       Bessa F, Frias J, Kögel T, Lusher A, Andrade JM, Antunes J, Sobral P, Pagter E, Nash R, O’Connor I, Pedrotti ML,Kerros ME, León V, Tirelli V, Suaria G, Lopes C, Raimundo J, Caetano M, Gago J, Viñas L, Carretero O, Magnusson K, Granberg M, Dris R, Fischer M, Scholz Böttcher B, Muniategui S, Grueiro G, Fernández V, Palazzo L, de Lucia A, Camedda A, Avio CG, Gorbi S, Pittura L, Regoli F, Gerdts G (2019). Harmonized protocol for monitoring microplastics in biota. JPIOceans BASEMAN project. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.28588.72321. 
 - 	SAPEA, Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (member Bessa, F).  2018. A Scientific Perspective on Microplastics in Nature and Society. Berlin: SAPEA.
 https://doi.org/10.26356/microplastics.
 
 -	González-Fernández, D., Hanke, G., and the RiLON network (member Bessa, F), Floating Macro Litter in European Rivers - Top Items. EUR 29383 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018, ISBN 978-92-79-96373-5, doi:10.2760/316058, JRC108172.
 
 -	Frias J, et al. (member Bessa, F), 2018. Standardised protocol for monitoring microplastics in sediments. JPI-Oceans BASEMAN project. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36256.89601.
 
 -	Airoldi L, Piarulli S, Wen J, Granberg M, Magnusson K, Van Colen C, Vanhove B, Bessa, F, Sobral P, van Franeker JA. 2017. Deliverable 3.1. Plastox Project - Qualitative and quantitative information on the distribution of MPs in key species at different trophic levels.
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          | oral presentations |  
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          | -	Bessa F, Sobral P, Borja A, Marques JC. Assessing microplastic abundance and distribution on the surface waters of the Mondego river estuary (Portugal). MICRO 2018, Fate and Impact of Microplastics: Knowledge, Actions and Solutions, Lanzarote, 19-23 November 2018. 
 -	Bessa F, Gonçalves C, Sobral P, Marques JC. Levels of microplastic pollution on sandy beaches from the European Atlantic coast (Portugal). IX Symposium on the Iberian Atlantic Margin (MIA2018), Coimbra, Portugal, 4-7 September 2018.
 
 -	Sobral P, Antunes J, Bessa F, Clode JC, Costa MH, Domingos I, Gonçalves AM, Marques JC, Martins M. Microplastics – why are we concerned. Encontro Ciência 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-4 July 2018.
 
 -	Bessa F, Gonçalves C, Sobral P, Marques JC.  Microplastic pollution on sandy beaches with different human-induced pressures from the European Atlantic coast (Portugal). VIII International Sandy Beach Symposium (ISBS2018) Heraklion, Greece, 25-29 June 2018.
 
 -	Bozzeda F, Gambineri S, Bessa F, Scapini F. Sandy beach ecosystem response to different Climate Change and related management scenarios. VIII International Sandy Beach Symposium (ISBS2018) Heraklion, Greece, 25-29 June 2018.
 
 -	Bessa F, Baeta A, Marques JC, Arenas F, Rodil IV. Habitat and trophic significance of external subsidies in wrack-associated beach macrofauna assemblages. VIII International Sandy Beach Symposium (ISBS2018) Heraklion, Greece, 25-29 June 2018.
 
 -	Scapini F, Bessa F, Gambineri S Bozzeda F. Sandhopper (Amphipoda, Talitridae) orientation as across scales bioindicator of sandy beaches environmental conditions: a meta-analytic approach. VIII International Sandy Beach Symposium (ISBS2018) Heraklion, Greece, 25-29 June 2018.
 
 -	Bessa F, Barria P, Neto JM, Frias JPGL, Otero V, Sobral P, Marques JC. Microplastics in juvenile commercial fish from a natural estuarine environment. International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. Capri, Italy, 26-29 September 2017.
 
 -	Duarte B, Canning-Clode J, Ramalhosa P, Vaz N, Dias JM, Bessa F, Marques JC, Caçador I. Microplásticos como vetores de metais pesados no meio marinho: consequências ecológicas. MICROPLÁSTICOS 2016 – 1º Congresso Português sobre Microplásticos: Contaminação Ambiental por Microplásticos e suas Implicações para a Saúde dos Ecossistemas, Animal e Humana. Porto, Portugal, 19-20 December 2016.
 
 -	Bessa F, Barria P, Neto JM, Frias JPGL, Otero V, Sobral P, Marques JC. Extração e identificação de microplásticos em peixes no ambiente estuarino. MICROPLÁSTICOS 2016 – 1º Congresso Português sobre Microplásticos: Contaminação Ambiental por Microplásticos e suas Implicações para a Saúde dos Ecossistemas, Animal e Humana. Porto, Portugal, 19-20 December, 2016.
 
 -	Duarte B, Canning-Clode J, Ramalhosa P, Vaz N, Dias JM, Bessa F, Marques JC, Caçador I. O papel dos microplásticos como vectores de metais pesados em ambientes marinhos. ª CPLM - Conferência Portuguesa sobre Lixo Marinho. Lisboa, Portugal, 15 September, 2016.
 
 -	Bessa F, Barría P, Neto JM, Marques JC, Sobral P. Occurrence of potential microplastics in commercial fish from an estuarine environment. 1ª CPLM - Conferência Portuguesa sobre Lixo Marinho. Lisboa, Portugal, 15 September 2016.
 
 -	Bessa F, Barría P, Neto JM, Marques JC, Sobral P. Occurrence of potential microplastics in commercial fish from an estuarine environment - Preliminary results. MICRO 2016: International Conference. Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, May 25-27th, 2016.
 
 -	Martins I, Teixeira Z, Gonçalves AM, Bessa F, Veríssimo H, Vinagre P, Marques JC. 2016. Evidence for the long-term contribution of upstream agricultural practices and land use on the biodiversity and function of an estuary and adjacent coastal areas. Frontiers Marine Science. Conference Abstract: IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research 2016. Peniche, Portugal, 14-15 July 2016.
 
 -	Bessa F, Scapini, Felicita; Cabrini, TM; Cardoso, RS. The combined effects of contrasting beach extension and human use on talitrid orientation. VII INTERNATIONAL SANDY BEACH SYMPOSIUM. Ilhabela-Brazil, 6-10 July 2015.
 
 -	Bessa F, Rossano C, Nourisson D, Gambineri S, Marques JCM, Scapini F. Behaviour of Talitrus saltator (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on rehabilitated sandy beach on the European Atlantic Coast (Portugal). Vth INTERNATIONAL SANDY BEACH SYMPOSIUM. South Africa, 23-28 June 2012
 
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          | -	Antunes J, Sobral P, Dhimmer V, Pequeno J, Bessa F.  Fish, bivalves and polychaeta: microplastics ingestion in Portuguese coastal waters. MICRO 2018, Fate and Impact of Microplastics: Knowledge, Actions and Solutions, Lanzarote, 19-23 November 2018 
 -	Bessa F, Vaz J, Sobral P, Marques, JC. Marine litter trends of beaches with different human-induced pressures on the European Atlantic coast (Portugal). Sixth International Marine Debris Conference (IMDC), San Diego (USA), 12-16 March 2018.
 
 -	Frias J, Nash R, Carretero O, Viñas L, Gago J, Lopes C, Raimundo J, Caetano M, Antunes J, Bessa F, Sobral P, Muniategui S, Gueiro G, et al. Sampling methodologies for microplastics in the marine environment (WP4). 2nd JPI Oceans Conference, Lisbon, 26 October 2017.
 
 -	Airoldi L, Piarulli S, Bessa F, Comandini P, Doyle T, Fabbri E, van Franeker J, Grannberg M, et al. Plastox WP3: MPs uptake and food web transfer. 2nd JPI Oceans Conference, Lisbon, 26 October 2017.
 
 -	Bessa, F, Gonçalves C, Sobral P, Marques JC. Ocorrência de microplásticos em praias arenosas sujeitas a diferentes pressões humanas: Resultados preliminares. MICRO2016 - 1º Congresso Português sobre Microplásticos. Porto, Portugal, 19-20 December 2016.
 
 -	Duarte B, Canning-Clode J, Ramalhosa P, Vaz N, Dias JM, Bessa F, Marques JC, Caçador, I. Heavy metal release from plastic debris coated by anti-fouling paints along an estuarine physic-chemical gradient. ECSA56- Coastal systems in transition: From a 'natural' to an 'anthropogenically-modified' state. Bremen, Germany, 4-7 September 2016.
 
 -	Reis MG, Bessa F, Skinner VB, Cabrini TMB, Cardoso RS, Comportamento orientacional de Atlantorchestoidea brasiliensis na praia da Restinga da Marambaia, RJ. V Congresso Brasileiro de Biologia Marinha. Porto de Galinhas, Ipojuca - PE, Brazil, 17-21 May 2015.
 
 -	Bessa F, Gonçalves SG, Franco JF, André JN, Cunha PP, Marques JC. Temporal changes in macrofauna as response indicator to potential human pressures on sandy beaches. ECSA54 Conference- Coastal systems under change: tuning assessment and management tools. Sesimbra, Portugal, 12-16 May 2014.
 
 -	Bessa F, Rossano C, Nourisson D, Gambineri S, Marques JC, Scapini F. Behaviour of Talitrus saltator (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on rehabilitated sandy beach on the European Atlantic Coast (Portugal). Vth INTERNATIONAL SANDY BEACH SYMPOSIUM. South Africa, 23-28 June 2012.
 
 -	Bessa F, Rossano C, Nourisson D, Gambineri S, Marques, JC, Scapini F. Behaviour of Talitrus saltator (Crustacea: Amphipoda) on rehabilitated sandy beach on the European Atlantic Coast (Portugal). 73 CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DELL'UNIONE ZOOLOGICA ITALIANA, Florence, Italy, 23-27 September 2012.
 
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          | M.Sc Thesis Concluded (as co-supervisor):
 
 1. José David Costa Cunha (2012). Title: Efeitos da nutrição de praias na comunidade macrofaunal
 de uma praia arenosa da costa ocidental Portuguesa. University of Coimbra.
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                | language | reading | writing | conversation |  
                | portuguese | first language | first language | first language |  
                | english | excelent | very good | very good |  
                | italian | excelent | very good | very good |  
                | french | very good | basic | basic |  
                | spanish | very good | regular | good |  |  
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          | Communication and Outreach activities (more details in other plaftorms/websites: 
 
 Examples:
 
 TV documentaries:
 
 2016:Biosfera: "Os Impactos da Atual Sociedade de Plástico" | 30 Abr, 2016 | Episódio 33.
 
 2012:REPUBLICA DO SABER. "O comportamento da pulga da areia como potencial biondicator de impactos em praias arenosas." "REPÚBLICA DO SABER" #PGM 7 Dez 2012 - RTP 2;
 
 ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS:
 
 2016: Member of Organizing Committee of 1º CPLM - Conferência Portuguesa sobre Lixo Marinho. Lisboa, Portugal, 15-16 September, 2016.
 
 2010: Member of the Organising Committee of ECSA 47 Symposium - Integrative tools and methods in assessing ecological quality in estuarine and coastal systems worldwide Figueira da Foz, 14 - 19 September
 
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