CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) is one of the R&D Units of the University of Aveiro Research Institute.

CESAM’s fundamental mission is to develop research in the coastal and marine environment, integrating the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and socialsphere.

CESAM includes over 300 researchers from the following five Departments of the University of Aveiro: Environment and Planning, Biology, Physics, Geosciences and Chemistry.

In 2005 CESAM attained the status of ASSOCIATE LABORATORY, attributed to key national research organizations by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Portuguese Government.

The list of the 2008 scientific categories from the Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Scientific), ordered by impact factor and percentile is available at the downloads' section.

Docente da UA nomeado para Comité Executivo do Comité Português para a Biodiversidade

Henrique Queiroga, docente do Departamento de Biologia da Universidade de Aveiro e membro do Laboratório Associado CESAM - Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, foi nomeado para o Comité Executivo do Comité Português para a Biodiversidade.

May to September, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro
Advanced Workshop Studies in Biology and Applied Biosciences 2010

17-21 May: Nanoparticles: Characterization and Environmental Risk Assessment
21-24 June: Life Support Systems for Marine Organisms - the Basis for Successful Laboratorial Experimentation
21 June - 2 July: Flora and Vegetation Studies: Biodiversity, Environmental Impact assessment and Ecotourism
28 June - 2 July: Practical Approach to Ecotoxicogenomics
5-9 July: Ecology (Fundamental and Molecular) of Plant-Microbe Interactions
6-10 September: Topics on Environmental Mixture Toxicity

This workshop intends gathering researchers working at different scientific areas, and promote discussion on topics like:
- impacts on biodiversity;
- conserving biodiversity and providing ecosystem services;
- biodiversity vulnerability;
- strategies devised to integrate scientific knowledge into conservation policy and practice.

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