2024 International Advanced Course on Anthropogenic Impacts in the Deep sea

(CIMA/ARNET - University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal)

The International advanced course on anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea will take place from 30th September to the 4th of October 2024 at the Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) at the University of Algarve, in Faro, Portugal. This advanced course is open to 20 MSc and PhD students or researchers with interests in improving their knowledge on the anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea, in particular on those related to ecotoxicology. The course will provide a broad perspective on the deep-sea ecosystems, focusing on chemosynthetic environments, and will provide an overview on the current research on the different anthropogenic impacts affecting the deep sea, such as pollution, deep-sea mining, climate change and noise. The available methodologies used in ecotoxicology, such as biomarkers and omics will also be presented. This overview will be followed by hands-on experience to learn methodologies related to assessing these impacts. This will be achieved through field work, laboratory methods and data analysis. The applicability of data obtained will be further demonstrated with examples of environmental risk analysis. To finalize, the relevance of acquiring this type of scientific data, in terms of supporting decision making and the definition and implementation of policies, will be explained under the international marine environmental law.

This Advanced Course is supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the BiDiRisk project (https://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/CTA-AMB/2894/2021), CIMA (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/00350/2020) and ARNET (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0069/2020).