INTERNATIONAL FUNDING

GREENUP: Green matrix uploaded
Financiamento / Funding: Mercator Ocean. Total funding: 199,421 €
Período / Period: 2016-2018

MISTIC SEAS 2 "Implementation of a coherent and coordinated sub regional approach to monitoring and evaluation of marine biodiversity in Macaronesia for the second cycle of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive MSFD"
Financiamento / Funding: European Commission. Total funding: 295,000 €
Período / Period: 2017-2019

MISTIC’SEAS – Macaronesia Islands Standard Indicators and Criteria: Reaching Common Grounds on Monitoring Marine biodiversity in Macaronesia – Functional groups: Marine Mammals and Reptiles
Financiamento / Funding: DG/ENV. Total funding: 46,000 €
Período / Period: 2016-2017

BIOMETORE - Biodiversity in seamounts: the Madeira-Tore and Great Meteor
Financiamento / Funding: EEA Grants. Total funding: 2,650,718.39 €
Período / Period: 2015-2017

Movement ecology of Whales: Investigating environmental, social and physiological motivation
Financiamento / Funding:
Secretaria de Estado de Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior de Minas Gerais: BR.
Período / Period: 2013-2018
 

MARÉ: Integrated management of coastal and marine areas in the Azores (NAT-P-5275)
Financiamento / Funding: EU LIFE Program. Total funding: 819,351.42 €; Research unit: 819,351.42 €
Período / Period: 1998 - 2003

EUROPHLUKES: Initiating a European network to develop a european cetacean photo-id system and database (EVR1-CT2001-20007)
Financiamento / Funding: EU FP5: 1,163,898.00 €; Research unit: 56,100.00 €
Período / Period: 2001 - 2004

MACETUS - Study of the population structure, distribution, movements and habitat use of Physeter macrocephalus, Globicephala macrorhynchus, Tursiops truncatus e Stenella frontalis in Macaronesia (Azores, Canary, and Madeira Islands) (MAC/4.2/M10)
Financiamento / Funding:  Interreg IIIB – MAC/FEDER: 470,588.00 €; Research unit: 158,929.00 €
Período / Period: 2003 - 2005

MAR-ECO - Patterns and processes of the ecosystems of the northern Mid-Atlantic
Financiamento / Funding: Census of Marine Life: N/A.
Período / Period: 2005-2009

MARMAC II – Knowledge, promotion and enrichment for the sustainable use of the Marine Protected Areas of Macaronesia – Phase II (MAC/4.2/A4)
Financiamento / Funding: Interreg IIIB/FEDER: 1,034,407.00 €; Research unit: 601,321.14 €
Período / Period: 2007 - 2009

BIONATURA - Monitoring Cetaceans in the Azores, monitoring program contracted by the project “BIONATURA – Cooperation and Synergies for the Development of the Natura 2000 network and the Preservation of Biodiversity in the Macaronésia Region." (MAC/4.2)
Financiamento / Funding: Interreg IIIB/FEDER: 2,112,194.00 €; Research unit:66,302.00 €

 

NATIONAL FUNDING

Movement ecology of whales: investigating environmental, social and physiological motivations
Financiamento / Funding: Foundation for Science and Technology. Total funding: 2,650,718.39 €
Período / Period: 2014-2019

CARCACE - Colonization of mAmmal caRCasses in the deep Atlantic Ocean
Financiamento / Funding: Foundation for Science and Technology. Total funding: 181,790.00
Período / Period: 2010-2014

CETAMARH - Ecology and population structure of bottlenose dolphins and sperm whales in the Azores: assessing the relationship with habitat features (POCTI/BSE/38991/2001)
Financiamento / Funding: FCT / Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation: 104,963.00 €; Research unit: 104,963.00 €
Período / Period: 2002 - 2006

GOLFINICHO - Ecological niche partitioning between two species of dolphins around the Azores and Madeira (POCTI/BIA-BDE/61009/2004)
Financiamento / Funding: FCT / Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation: 90,000.00 €; Research unit: 90,000.00 €
Período / Period: 2005 - 2007

TRACE - Cetacean habitat associations in oceanic ecosystems: an integrated approach (PTDC/MAR/74071/2006)
Financiamento / Funding: FCT / Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation: 150,926.00 €; Research unit: 150,926.00 €
Período / Period: 2008 - 2011

 

REGIONAL FUNDING

WATCH IT - Whale watching effects on sperm whales - disturbance assessment towards a sustainable ecotourism (ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-0057).
Financiamento / Funding: Co-funded by AÇORES 2020, through the FEDER fund from the European Union. Total funding: 148.080,00€
Período / Period: 2018-2020

EcoDiveAz– Towards sustainable growth of shark and manta diving in the Azores
Financiamento / Funding: Regional Secretariat for Science, Technology and Infrastructures/Regional Directorate for Science, Technology and Communications (Ponta Delgada, Azores). Total funding: 39,850 €

2020 - Towards ecosystem-based management of the Azores marine resources, biodiversity and habitats
Financiamento / Funding: Operational Program of the Azores 2020. Total funding: 149,444.40 €
Período / Period: 2016-2019

MAPCET - Integrating cetaceans into marine spatial management in the Azores
Financiamento / Funding: Regional Secretariat for Science, Technology and Infrastructures/Regional Directorate for Science, Technology and Communications (Ponta Delgada, Azores). Total funding: 39,820 €
Período / Period: 2012-2015

ATLANTIS-MAR - Mapping coastal and marine biodiversity of the Azores
Financiamento / Funding: Regional Secretariat for Science, Technology and Infrastructures/Regional Directorate for Science, Technology and Communications (Ponta Delgada, Azores). Total funding: 39,820 €
Período / Period: 2012-2015

CETPESCA – Monitoring interactions of cetaceans and the squid fishery
Financiamento / Funding: Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea (Ponta Delgada, Azores). Total funding: 100,054 €
Período / Period: 2009-2011

Whale watching nos Açores: contribuindo para o seu desenvolvimento sustentável [Whale watching in the Azores: contribution for the sustainable development]
Financiamento / Funding: SRE-SRAM/DRT-DRA
Período / Period: 2005 - 2007

Desenvolvimento do whale watching nos Açores [Whale watching development in the Azores]
Financiamento / Funding: SRE/DRT: 59,345.00 €; Research unit: 59,345.00 €
Período / Period: 1998 - 2002

Impacto do whale watching nas populações de cetáceos: avaliação e regulamentação [Whale watching impact on cetacean populations: evaluation and regulation]
Financiamento / Funding: SRE/DRT
Financiamento / Funding: SRE/DRT
Período / Period: 1995 - 1997