Today we were featured in Diário de Notícias da Madeira! The Campus Azul project at Lazareto is beginning to gain visibility and a place in the public conversation. We believe in a Madeira that leads in #ocean #science, #innovation, and in bridging knowledge with #community.

Discover #BLUE: Biotelemetry for Life Underwater and Education, led by our Researcher Filipe Alves! BLUE tracks delphinids in Madeira using satellite #biotelemetry to uncover habitat use and human impact zones, while engaging communities in #ocean conservation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcF...

How to communicate science? From our Academia Azul workshop series, the Blue Stories workshop focused on using art to transmit ocean literacy! Find out more on our blog post: mare-madeira.pt/stories-from...

#ProjectBLUE studies habitats used by ocean giants in Macaronesia, especially around Madeira. Anita, our research technician, met with students to explain what biotelemetry is and how it helps track cetaceans. Funded by the FAM Foundation.

Incredible week in Madeira! #ICMBXII brought together scientists and friends from around the world to discuss #marine #invasive #species. 🎥 Watch the full recap: youtu.be/8JUa29H2DEA We hope everyone enjoyed their time on the island! See you in Cape Town next year!

We’re hiring!! www.arditi.pt/pt/concursos... Join our team as an investigator on two Interreg Mac Capitalization projects: DiveReporter_MAC and MAC - DroneAI. The ideal candidate has a background in marine science and experience engaging stakeholders and communities in citizen science

🇬🇧New species alert for Madeira! The Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is found throughout tropical and subtropical regions, but had never been sighted in Madeira until August 2025, when the whale-watching operator H2O Madeira sighted a group of ~50 individuals! 📷 H2O Madeira

Out now: a new 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 and the first for freshwater ecosystems in #Madeira! Here, we cover our main findings related to the endangered European eel -- our only native freshwater fish -- and non-indigenous species. mare-madeira.pt/impact/polic...

Meet the team! Spotlight on Sole Álvarez ✨ Sole joined MARE-Madeira in 2016 and has worked on a wide range of projects with us these last nine years! Read a new article by La Nueva España to learn more about Sole's journey to Madeira and her career in science! 💙 lne.es/asturias-ext...

New publication in BioInvasions Records! Occurrence of the eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 (Poeciliidae, Cyprinodontiformes) in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic) www.reabic.net/journals/bir... @maremadeira.bsky.social @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

🚨 Estamos à procura de residentes na Madeira (estudantes de mestrado ou recém-formados) para integrar o programa #GAME 2026 do @GEOMAR_en (Alemanha) com o MARE-Madeira. Tema: A influência do ambiente #acústico #marinho na colonização de fundos duros por #invertebrados.

This year, our MARE-Madeira #youth ambassadors launched MARtístico, an ocean art competition + exhibition that invited our community to celebrate the beauty and importance of our shared #ocean. 🎥 Watch the new MARtístico video by Patrícia Nunes: youtu.be/DbX3Ut7xmTg

Conhece os teus mentores no Workshop de Narrativas Azuis! Nos dias 18 e 19 de dezembro, vais aprender com profissionais incríveis que têm impacto nacional e internacional nas áreas do jornalismo, arte, comunicação, ciência e storytelling visual. Aqui está quem te vai inspirar:

𝐀𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐩é𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞 á𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭ã𝐨 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭? O nosso investigador Filipe Alves responde. 📺 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬ó𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨: “𝐂𝐞𝐭á𝐜𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐞𝐦 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥” — 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚 (𝐄𝐩. 𝟐𝟖 | 𝐓𝟐𝟑) 🔗 rtp.pt/play/p14287/e878085/biosfera

𝐂𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜̧𝐚̃𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐨 𝐚 𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐞. Descobre porquê. 📺 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬ó𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨: “𝐂𝐞𝐭á𝐜𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐞𝐦 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥” — 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚 (𝐄𝐩. 𝟐𝟖 | 𝐓𝟐𝟑) 🔗 rtp.pt/play/p14287/e878085/biosfera

Próximo Bilhardar Ciência: 27 de novembro! A convidada é Camila Dávila, que irá falar sobre #whale watching, comunicação de #ciência nas redes e o seu artigo sobre orcas na Madeira. 🕖 Hora: 19h às 20h 📍 Barreirinha Bar Café Evento gratuito e aberto a todos!

𝐎 𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝟏 𝐤𝐦 𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐞? 𝐎𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐦. 📺 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬ó𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐨: “𝐂𝐞𝐭á𝐜𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐞𝐦 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥” — 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚 (𝐄𝐩. 𝟐𝟖 | 𝐓𝟐𝟑) 🔗 rtp.pt/play/p14287/e878085/biosfera

📄 @maremadeira.bsky.social | #arditi | #UniversidadedaMadeira newest Policy Brief highlights risks of exotic species in Madeira’s MPAs and calls for monitoring, port biosafety & international cooperation. With #ARNET, science supports policy & action for biodiversity. #MARE #CIMA #CBMA

Estamos à procura de residentes na Madeira (estudantes de mestrado ou recém-formados) para integrar o programa GAME 2026 do @geomarkiel.bsky.social (Alemanha) com o MARE-Madeira. Tema: A influência do ambiente acústico marinho na colonização de fundos duros por invertebrados.

Como "vêem" os cetáceos debaixo de água? Neste excerto do programa 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚 (𝐑𝐓𝐏𝟐), o nosso investigador Filipe Alves explica como estes animais emitem sons e interpretam os ecos para localizar presas e comunicar no vasto oceano. 🔗http://rtp.pt/play/p14287/e878085/biosfera

Já abrimos as candidaturas para o Workshop de Narrativas Azuis! 📍 Madeira Tecnopolo |🗓️ 18–19 dezembro Para jovens que queiram comunicar o oceano através da arte, vídeo e storytelling - com mentores de topo, nacionais e internacionais. Candidata-te até 18 nov: mare-madeira.pt/events/stories

To celebrate #Halloween, our MARE-Madeira #YouthAmbassadors have pulled together some of the ‘spookiest’ critters of the #deepsea to share with you! Today we’re celebrating the Giant Squid of the genus Architeuthis, which can reach at least 13 meters in length!

New Abyssmal Humor #cartoon: 'Unsquishable' 😄 Check out the full Abyssmal Humor series: twilighted.eu/resources/ab... #deepsea

De julho a setembro, realizámos 5 atividades da Ciência Viva no Verão, ao longo de 8 dias com 152 participantes! mare-madeira.pt/diversao-ao-... Muito obrigado a todos que participaram! 📷 Beatriz Arraiol, Sara Bettencourt, César Gomes #oceanliteracy

This September, our partners at NTNU hosted a deep-sea technology training school for scientists, technicians and students from @maremadeira.bsky.social and GEOMAR. It got rave reviews from attendees and hit all project KPIs for moose and aurora borealis sightings, too 🦌

A moment to remember! The #ICMBXII community gathered together in Madeira — researchers, students, and practitioners united by a shared passion for #marine #bioinvasions. The conference isn’t over yet — more sessions, discussions, and connections are still to come!

Macaronesia is home to the pelagic seabird Manx shearwater (subspecies Puffinus puffinus canariensis). This long-lived and far-travelling seabird only comes to land for breeding and nests in burrows, which it visits at night. Perhaps you’ve heard its nighttime cackling, crooning and ‘coughing’?

New #invasive #species confirmed in Madeira and Porto Santo A new study published in an international journal, led by Inês Órfão, confirms for the first time the presence of the eastern #mosquitofish (𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪) in the Madeira Archipelago.

Os Embaixadores Jovens do MARE-Madeira convidam-no(a) para a noite de abertura da exposição de arte MARtístico! O MARtístico foi um concurso aberto a toda a comunidade, para mostrar a ligação da nossa ilha ao oceano através da arte.

Ana Dinis joined the #ICES Annual Science Conference in Klaipėda 🇱🇹, presenting “Bridging conservation & community: stakeholders’ views on a Macaronesian marine corridor” in the #marine #biodiversity & #ecosystem services session!

OPORTUNIDADE! Curso de Formação Acreditado: Educação para a Sustentabilidade dos Oceanos A degradação dos #ecossistemas #marinhos torna urgente reforçar o papel da educação na construção de uma sociedade mais consciente e sustentável.

The Annual MARE-Madeira Summer Retreat brought us together once again on September 8th, this time in Porto da Cruz!

We're in French Polynesia! Our researcher Filipe Alves is supporting the Odyssey for Life project, which aims to unravel the migration patterns of #humpback whales to Antarctica -- using eDNA, acoustic recordings, genetics, ecotoxicology and photogrammetry. 💙🐳

Our PhD candidate, Eva Íñiguez, was selected to participate and embarked last month on the tall #ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl under the #OneOceanExpedition, in a summer school organised and hosted by the University of Bergen (Norway).

So you think you’re faster than a snail? Pelagic gastropods are slippery critters! Marine researchers have great difficulty in catching them in the open ocean – some liken it to trying to catch a fly in a jar…outside!

Could we finally have an international treaty on reducing plastic pollution? Negotiations are taking place this week in Geneva and our team member Sabine Rech is there as a member of the Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty and the Chilean National Delegation!

From July 16 to 18, Martim, one of our Youth Ambassadors, and Patrícia, our Community Engagement Officer, participated in the #SPLASH-EU Ambassador Training in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.

Congratulations to our new doctor!! Rita Ferreira conducted a doctorate degree exploring the #biogeography, population and trophic #ecology of #cetaceans around Madeira and wider #Macaronesia, and she was approved after an excellent defense yesterday at @U_Madeira!

Did you know some #sea #spiders are actually #methane farmers? Along methane seeps in the Pacific Ocean, tiny sea spiders of the genus 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢 grow special #bacteria right on their shells — bacteria that munch on methane, a powerful #greenhouse gas!

Temos um sonho... (We have a dream...) mare-madeira.pt/campus-azul-...

How can 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 contribute to #marine #conservation? A new study by Ana Cecília Amaral and Carlos Andrade explores 𝐡𝐨𝐰 #fish 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 can become players in 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #AQUAFISH 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟔–𝟐𝟕, bringing together partners to review progress and set the course for a more #sustainable #aquaculture.

Our Changing Seas 'Movie Night' was a hit! We had a full house to celebrate the launch of ' #Whales in a #Plastic #Ocean' with us, with many new faces from our community! Thank you so much to everyone who came out!

🔬 𝐂𝐢ê𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐧𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫ã𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐚 🌊 O MARE-Madeira convida-te a descobrir o mar como nunca o viste! Este verão, junta-te a nós em 𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐨 𝐩ú𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨, pensadas para dar a conhecer a #ciência que se faz na nossa região, em especial no nosso #oceano.

A exposição Missão: #Restaurar o #Oceano abriu com grande sucesso! Integrada na Semana do Ambiente 2025 promovida pela Câmara Municipal do #Funchal, a equipa do projeto #CLIMAREST inaugurou, no passado dia 6 de junho, a sua exposição temporária no Museu de História Natural do Funchal.

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝! Join the team behind the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 #ICMBXII, happening from 6–9 October 2025 at the VidaMar Hotel, Funchal!

Junta-te a nós no próximo Bilhardar Ciência: 📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: 31 de julho ⏰ 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐚: 19h às 20h 📍𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥: Barreirinha Bar Café Os próximos convidados serão Pedro Ideia e Francisco Barreto, do projeto PLASTICSPIRACY! Em parceria com @oceandevotionmadeira e @barreirinhabarcafe!

Junta-te a nós para a estreia mundial do novo documentário Changing Seas! Vamos fazer uma exibição no Madeira Tecnopolo na segunda-feira, 30 de junho.

The full documentary of the #CLIMAREST project is now available! #CLIMAREST explores new approaches to restoring coastal and #marine #ecosystems across different regions of Europe — from the Arctic to Madeira. 👉 Watch the full documentary here: youtu.be/0eRuJ27ehZ8

New documentary coming soon! Our research into how plastic is affecting the waters and wildlife around Madeira is featured in this season of the Changing Seas documentary, to be released worldwide on June 25. Watch it at changingseas.tv or with us in Madeira on 30 June!