📢PLAnT project will be present at the XVII Portuguese Polar Science Conference, with four oral comunications.
This year the conference focuses on the topic “Humans in the Polar Regions”, highlighting the experiences, challenges, and impacts of human presence in polar and analogous environments! 🌍🌊

📣 We invite you to attend the next Sea Seminar, organized by the Lisbon Geographical Society with MARE-ULisboa on “European Project PLAnT: Planning for Sustainable Use of the Antarctic Ocean”! 🌊
Link to access the Zoom:
us06web.zoom.us/j/8485877825...
Meeting ID: 848 5877 8251 - Password: 615606

📣 New date!
Our webinar on “Distinguishing Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Protected Area planning to advance conservation” hosted by OCTO (Open Communications for The Ocean) has a new date! It will take place on October 30, 2025! 🌊

Register here👇🏽
octogroup.org/distinguishi...

📢 Tomorrow it's our Postdoctoral researcher Catarina Pereira Santos turn to give an oral presentation at the
@icesmarine.bsky.social Annual Science Conference.

Looking forward to an amazing session! 🌊🪸

#ICESASC25 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @marescience.bsky.social

📢 The @icesmarine.bsky.social Annual Science Conference began today, in Klaipèdia University, Lithuania.
Tomorrow is the Poster Session, and PLAnT’s team will be present with several posters. 🌊

#ICESASC25 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @marescience.bsky.social @iebchile.bsky.social

📣 Join us on October 22 for a new OCTO webinar on “Distinguishing Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Protected Area planning to advance conservation” presented by @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social and Tundi Agardy! 🌊

Register here👇🏽
octogroup.org/distinguishi...

📢 Tomorrow it's our PI @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social turn to give an oral presentation at the MPA in MSP conference!
This presentation is based on the recent paper published in #npjOceanSustainability: www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00119-4

Looking forward to a great session! 🌊🪸

📢 Today it’s the MPA in MSP conference Poster session, where several posters on different topics developed under project PLAnT will be discussed. Our Postdoctoral researcher Catarina Pereira Santos will present two of them. 🌊❄️

@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @marescience.bsky.social

📢 The MPA in MSP International Conference starts today, in Bødo, Norway! Oral and poster presentations by PLAnT’s team will start today with our Postdoctoral researcher @borgesbiology.bsky.social and continue throughout the week!

Ready for an inspiring session! 🌊🪸

The 27th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection #CEP and the 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting #ATCM are taking place in Milan with over 400 delegates🇮🇹. PLAnT's PI @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social is attending both, as part of the Portuguese Delegation🌊🇦🇶❄️ www.ats.aq/devAS/Meetings/

PLAnT is present at the #UNOC3 special Event One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC, dedicated to Science, organised by @cnrs.fr & @ifremer.bsky.social.
The project PI @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social contributed to two sessions on ocean governance and management under Theme 10 🌊

one-ocean-science-2025.org

PLAnT project was highlighted in a news piece by @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social featuring the Associate Laboratory @arnetla.bsky.social 🌊

ARNET is a national multi institutional network that encompasses three R&D units.

Find out more (in Portuguese) 👇
ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticia/1...

The PI of project PLAnT, Dr. @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social was interviewed by Wilder Magazine, for its “Researchers for Nature” section.

Dr. @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social connects science and policy for a sustainable ocean. 🌊

Find out more 👇
wilder.pt/historias/in...

New Perspective paper developed under PLAnT was published in #npjOceanSustainability, highlighting that marine spatial planning (#MSP) and marine protected area (#MPA) planning are not the same, but both are key for ocean sustainability in a changing ocean! 🌊

Find more👇
doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Welcome to PLAnT's bluesky!

PLAnT, "Planning for Sustainable Ocean Use in Antarctica under Global Environmental Change", is a research project funded by the @erc.europa.eu through an ERC Starting Grant to @cfrazaosantos.bsky.social based at @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

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www.plantproject.eu 🌊❄️🇦🇶🐧🗺️