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Awards and Prizes

2010, Best Oral Communication Award at ECSA 2010 with the presentation “ Duarte, B., Freitas, J. and Caçador, I. Sediment microbial activities and physic-chemistry as progress indicators of salt marsh restoration processes.”



2011, Best Poster Award in the "Aquatic Microbiology" at the "Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology & Applications" Meeting (Bad Nauheim, Germany), with the work intitled “Duarte, B., Freitas, J., Couto, T., Silva, H., Marques, J. C. and Caçador, I. Application of a new Rhizosphere Sediment Microbial Index (RSMI) to assess the ecological quality status of salt marsh sediments.”

 

 

2013, Mora Fluviarium Young Scientist of 2012 Award with the paper “Duarte, B., Freitas, J. and Caçador, I., 2012. Sediment microbial activities and physic-chemistry as progress indicators of salt marsh restoration processes. Ecological Indicators  19, 231-239 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.07.014)”.




Board Member

2009 – present. Member of the Research Coordination Network for Enzymes in the Environment (http://enzymes.nrel.colostate.edu/) National Science Foundation (NSF, USA) funding.



​2011 – 2014 – Member of the Laboratorial Safety and Hygiene commission of the Centre of Oceanography (Lisbon, Portugal).

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2012 – 2014 – Centre of Oceanography Marine Botany Laboratory Responsible (Lisbon, Portugal).



2012 - 2014. Member of the Centre of Oceanography (Lisbon, Portugal) Scientific Board.



​2014 – 2054 – Member of the Laboratorial Safety and Hygiene commission of MARE (Lisbon, Portugal).

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2012 – 2014 – MARE Marine Botany Laboratory Responsible (Lisbon, Portugal).



Peer-Review Activity

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies.

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Environmental and Experimental Botany.

Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination.

Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Environmental Geochemistry and Health.

Continental Shelf Research

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Wetlands

Scientia Agricola

Environmental Science and Technology

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Ecological Indicators

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum




International Collaborations

Professor Hans-Wenner Koyro (Institute of Plant Ecology, University of Gissen, Germany).

Dr. Dominik Zak (Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany).
Professor Hendrik Kupper (University of Konstanz, Germany).
Professor Ian Croudace (Southampton Ocenography Institute, UK).
Professor Malika Ainouche (ECOBIO, University of Rénnes, France).

Professor Luigi Milella (University of Basilicata, Italy).

Professor Enrique Mateos-Naranjo (University of Seville, Spain).

Professor Barbara Janine Adams (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa).

Professor Jutta Papenbrock (Leibniz Hannover University, Institute of Botany, Germany).



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