Graça Sofia Nunes has a degree in Marine Biology from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Algarve. Following her passion for marine life and the relationship between living beings and the environment, her areas of interest are polar ecology, climate change and Primary Producers. She recently completed her master’s degree in Marine Ecology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she studied the effects of climate change on the timing and duration of phytoplankton blooms in the Ross Sea (Antarctica), using remote sensing techniques.

   She has also volunteered at the University of the Algarve’s Marine and Environmental Research Center (CIMA), where, among other activities, she carries out nutrient and chlorophyll a analyses using spectrophotometric methods. In the summer of 2022, she undertook an intensive Dolphin Research internship with AIMM, where she had the opportunity to carry out fieldwork and get to know various species of cetaceans, sharks, sea turtles and seabirds that can be found in southern Portugal. Earlier this year she had the opportunity to be part of an oceanographic cruise around the Antarctic Peninsula, where she carried out different samples to study the different phytoplankton communities in the region.

   G. Sofia Nunes became a member of the APECS Portugal Executive Committee in April 2022.