Organising Committee
Isabel Sousa Pinto - Board of the Centre for Marine and
Environmental Research, University of Porto
João Coimbra – Focal Point of the Interministerial Council for
Marine Affairs, Director of the Centre for Marine and
Environmental Research
Ricardo Serrão-Santos - Director of the Department of
Oceanography and Fisheries, University of Azores
Emanuel Gonçalves - Estrutura de Missão para os Assuntos do Mar
(EMAM)
EPBRS Steering Committee
Horst Korn – Federal Agency for
Nature Conservation
Sybille van den Hove - Median SCP and Institute for
Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous
University of Barcelona
Martin Sharman – DG Research, EU
Isabel Sousa Pinto – CIMAR, University of Porto
Rudi Herman – Flemish Government, Department Economy, Science
and Innovation
Tiuu Kull – Estonian University of Life Sciences
Carsten Nesshöver – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
– UFZ
Jari Niemela – University of Helsinki
Andrew Stott – DEFRA – UK
Alexander van Opstal - Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Food
Quality
Adriana Vella – University of Malta
Allan Watt – Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC, UK
Thomas Wrbka - University o Vienna – Dep. of Conservation
Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology
Katalin Torok – Coordinator of the SSA Biostrat
J. Weber – Coordinator of the ERA-Net BiodivERsA.
Meeting Organisation
Isabel Sousa Pinto, Coastal Biodiversity Laboratory, CIMAR
Marina Silva, Coastal Biodiversity Laboratory, CIMAR
Carlos Martins, Image & Communication, CIMAR
Emília Afonso, Public Relations, CIMAR
Pedro Rodrigues, Informatics, CIMAR