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17/11/2021 - Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Ciência Viva Grand Prix 2021
Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, a member of SIBECOL board, is distinguished with the Ciência Viva Grand Prix 2021 for her remarkable action in promoting scientific culture as a teacher, biologist and promoter in the area of Ecology.
The Ciência Viva Awards are awarded annually, recognizing interventions of exceptional merit in scientific and technological dissemination in Portugal.
The Ciência Viva Grand Prix 2021 distinguishes Maria Amélia Martins-Loução for her remarkable action in promoting scientific culture as a teacher, biologist and promoter in the area of Ecology. President of the Portuguese Society of Ecology, she has stood out for her public participation through the writing of opinion articles on threats to biodiversity. She was vice-Dean of the University of Lisbon, director of the Lisbon Botanical Garden, president of the National Museum of Natural History and president of the Department of Plant Biology of the Faculty of Sciences.
Our most sincere congratulations, Maria Amélia!!
The Ciência Viva Awards are awarded annually, recognizing interventions of exceptional merit in scientific and technological dissemination in Portugal.
The Ciência Viva Grand Prix 2021 distinguishes Maria Amélia Martins-Loução for her remarkable action in promoting scientific culture as a teacher, biologist and promoter in the area of Ecology. President of the Portuguese Society of Ecology, she has stood out for her public participation through the writing of opinion articles on threats to biodiversity. She was vice-Dean of the University of Lisbon, director of the Lisbon Botanical Garden, president of the National Museum of Natural History and president of the Department of Plant Biology of the Faculty of Sciences.
Our most sincere congratulations, Maria Amélia!!
05/11/2021 - The ecologist Jordi Bascompte, awardee of the 2021 Margalef Ecology Prize
Dr. Jordi Bascompte i Sacrest has been awarded the 2021 Ramon Margalef Award for Ecology, one of the most prestigious international distinctions in the field of Ecology. The jury of these international awards, granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya since 2004, has highlighted with this award the research and teaching work of Jordi Bascompte, who is currently a Professor of Ecology at the University of Zurich.
The main scientific interest of Dr. Jordi Bascompte is the study of the structure and dynamics of ecological networks, considering the mutually beneficial interactions between plants and animals in the theory of community ecology, a field historically dominated by the perspective of the predation and competition.
Among other things, the jury highlighted "his extraordinary talent for selecting questions that can be addressed with data of sufficient quality to reach solid theoretical conclusions".
His research combines mathematical modeling, simulations, and data analysis to solve questions in fundamental and applied ecology. Some of his books have become valuable references that establish bridges between natural history and the theory of community ecology.
The award ceremony will be held at the Palau de la Generalitat (Barcelona) on November 9th for both Dr. Jordi Bascompte and last year's awardee, Dr. Sandra Lavorel, who could not receive the award due to the COVID-9 situation.
More informations here
The main scientific interest of Dr. Jordi Bascompte is the study of the structure and dynamics of ecological networks, considering the mutually beneficial interactions between plants and animals in the theory of community ecology, a field historically dominated by the perspective of the predation and competition.
Among other things, the jury highlighted "his extraordinary talent for selecting questions that can be addressed with data of sufficient quality to reach solid theoretical conclusions".
His research combines mathematical modeling, simulations, and data analysis to solve questions in fundamental and applied ecology. Some of his books have become valuable references that establish bridges between natural history and the theory of community ecology.
The award ceremony will be held at the Palau de la Generalitat (Barcelona) on November 9th for both Dr. Jordi Bascompte and last year's awardee, Dr. Sandra Lavorel, who could not receive the award due to the COVID-9 situation.
More informations here
02/11/2021 - Fernando Valladares, BBVA Foundation Award for the Conservation of Biodiversity
Fernando Valladares, vice president of SIBECOL and researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), has been awarded the XVI BBVA Foundation Award for the Conservation of Biodiversity.
The award has been given to him for his extensive dissemination work in different media in order to transmit to society the scientific evidence on the climate crisis and the importance and consequences of the loss of biodiversity on our planet.
More information here
Our sincerest congratulations to the awardee!
The award has been given to him for his extensive dissemination work in different media in order to transmit to society the scientific evidence on the climate crisis and the importance and consequences of the loss of biodiversity on our planet.
More information here
Our sincerest congratulations to the awardee!
18/01/2021 - 2020 Awardees of the SIBECOL and AEET Project Grants for Early Career Researchers
We are pleased to announce the beneficiaries of the grants for research projects led by young scientists from the following two calls:
First call of SIBECOL Projects for Early Career Researchers – 2020
This call aims to support early career ecologists by providing them funding opportunities, fostering the collaboration among them and promoting multi- and interdisciplinary research in Ecology. There are two categories that are directed to researchers on different stages of their professional career: the “Starting Early Career researchers (ECR) project grant” for postdoctoral researchers (less than 3 years after PhD defence), and the “Advance ECR project grant”, directed to postdoctoral or non-permanent researchers (more than 3 years after PhD defence).
Awarded projects:
AEET-SIBECOL early career researchers project grants, 10º ed. (2020)
The aim of these grants is to support researchers in the early stages of their careers, giving them the opportunity to develop their creativity by launching a small individual project, with its own entity, well focused and of proven scientific quality. The program supports projects for which financial support outside the scope of other larger group projects is difficult to obtain, and consists of three different categories depending on the career stage:
1. “Taking the initiative”, for pre-doctoral students in a doctoral program who have not yet read the thesis.
2. "Gaining independence" for junior post-doctoral students, who read the doctoral thesis less than three years ago.
3. "Consolidating research", for consolidated post-doctoral students, who read the thesis for more than three and less than six years ago.
Awarded projects (ex aequo) in alphabetical order of IP´s surname by category:
More information on this call is also available here.
Congratulations to all the awardees!
We are pleased to see the diversity of proposals sent from the different entities (AIL, AEET, SEEEE and SIBECOL) to both the AEET-SIBECOL and SIBECOL calls, as well as the good gender balance of both the received and the awarded proposals. We want to thank all those who have participated in this call and encourage you to continue working with enthusiasm!
SIBECOL and AEET Boards
First call of SIBECOL Projects for Early Career Researchers – 2020
This call aims to support early career ecologists by providing them funding opportunities, fostering the collaboration among them and promoting multi- and interdisciplinary research in Ecology. There are two categories that are directed to researchers on different stages of their professional career: the “Starting Early Career researchers (ECR) project grant” for postdoctoral researchers (less than 3 years after PhD defence), and the “Advance ECR project grant”, directed to postdoctoral or non-permanent researchers (more than 3 years after PhD defence).
Awarded projects:
AEET-SIBECOL early career researchers project grants, 10º ed. (2020)
The aim of these grants is to support researchers in the early stages of their careers, giving them the opportunity to develop their creativity by launching a small individual project, with its own entity, well focused and of proven scientific quality. The program supports projects for which financial support outside the scope of other larger group projects is difficult to obtain, and consists of three different categories depending on the career stage:
1. “Taking the initiative”, for pre-doctoral students in a doctoral program who have not yet read the thesis.
2. "Gaining independence" for junior post-doctoral students, who read the doctoral thesis less than three years ago.
3. "Consolidating research", for consolidated post-doctoral students, who read the thesis for more than three and less than six years ago.
Awarded projects (ex aequo) in alphabetical order of IP´s surname by category:
More information on this call is also available here.
Congratulations to all the awardees!
We are pleased to see the diversity of proposals sent from the different entities (AIL, AEET, SEEEE and SIBECOL) to both the AEET-SIBECOL and SIBECOL calls, as well as the good gender balance of both the received and the awarded proposals. We want to thank all those who have participated in this call and encourage you to continue working with enthusiasm!
SIBECOL and AEET Boards
22/12/2020 - The ecologist Sandra Lavorel, awardee of the 2020 Margalef Ecology Prize
Dr. Sandra Lavorel has been the recipient of the 16th edition of the Ramon Margalef Award (2020), which recognizes scientists who have distinguished themselves exceptionally in the field of Ecology. Dr. Lavorel’s candidature for this prestigious award was proposed by the SIBECOL, AEET, AIL, SEEE and SPECO associations. The proposal adduced her important contribution linking community ecology and landscape ecology and the jury highlighted that her figure "represents one of the best combinations between the biological sciences and the social sciences."
Dr. Sandra Lavorel is a Research Professor at the Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine (Grenoble, France). She obtained a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1991 and has pioneered trait-based approaches in
functional ecology, first in plants and then across trophic levels, being co-founder of the world's first and largest database of plant functional plant traits worldwide (TRY - Plant Trait Database). She has focused her research on linking global change impacts on biodiversity to changes in ecosystem functioning. She has been at the forefront of the development of new conceptual and methodological tools to address questions ranging from disturbance responses to biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning. Importantly, she has contributed to the development and implementation of the concept of ‘ecosystem services’, which is now applied to any kind of ecosystem. Dr. Lavorel is strongly committed to the transfer of ecological knowledge to policy and management decision makers, by contributing to national and international panels dedicated to biodiversity and ecosystem assessments, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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Dr. Sandra Lavorel is a Research Professor at the Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine (Grenoble, France). She obtained a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1991 and has pioneered trait-based approaches in
functional ecology, first in plants and then across trophic levels, being co-founder of the world's first and largest database of plant functional plant traits worldwide (TRY - Plant Trait Database). She has focused her research on linking global change impacts on biodiversity to changes in ecosystem functioning. She has been at the forefront of the development of new conceptual and methodological tools to address questions ranging from disturbance responses to biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning. Importantly, she has contributed to the development and implementation of the concept of ‘ecosystem services’, which is now applied to any kind of ecosystem. Dr. Lavorel is strongly committed to the transfer of ecological knowledge to policy and management decision makers, by contributing to national and international panels dedicated to biodiversity and ecosystem assessments, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).See more here
02/11/2020 - Awardees at the virtual meeting Limnología 2020
Last week the virtual meeting Limnology 2020 took place, which harbored both the XX Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology and the III Ibero-American Congress of Limnology. Despite the current pandemic situation, the event had 283 participants and a total of 241 scientific communications, of which 147 were talks and 94 posters. During the meeting, several prizes were awarded (including one granted by SIBECOL) to the best scientific communications. Congratulations to all the awardees!
Best Interdisciplinary Talk (SIBECOL AWARD)
Victor Martín Vélez (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
Functional connectivity network between anthropogenic and aquatic habitats by a waterbird: implications for contaminant transportation
Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
Eric Puche (Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology)
Charophytes: freshwater key players under global change
Accesit to the Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
José María Fernández-Calero (Universitat de Barcelona)
Avances en ecología de metacomunidades en ríos intermitentes para la mejora de su conservación y gestión
Accesit to the Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
Néstor Nicolás (Universidad de Murcia)
Contributions of dry rivers to human well-being: a global review
Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
Diana Graça (University of Minho)
Ecophysiological responses of aquatic hyphomycetes to climate change related stressors
Accesit to the Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
Elena Villar-Navarro (Universidad de Cádiz)
From theory to practice: sizing nitrification/denitrification units for urban wastewater treatment
Accesit to the Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
José Manuel Zamora Marín (Universidad de Murcia)
Small ponds are big oases for terrestrial bird communities in a Mediterranean semiarid region
Best Interdisciplinary Talk (SIBECOL AWARD)
Victor Martín Vélez (Estación Biológica de Doñana)
Functional connectivity network between anthropogenic and aquatic habitats by a waterbird: implications for contaminant transportation
Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
Eric Puche (Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology)
Charophytes: freshwater key players under global change
Accesit to the Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
José María Fernández-Calero (Universitat de Barcelona)
Avances en ecología de metacomunidades en ríos intermitentes para la mejora de su conservación y gestión
Accesit to the Best Oral Communication (Transmitting Science Award)
Néstor Nicolás (Universidad de Murcia)
Contributions of dry rivers to human well-being: a global review
Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
Diana Graça (University of Minho)
Ecophysiological responses of aquatic hyphomycetes to climate change related stressors
Accesit to the Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
Elena Villar-Navarro (Universidad de Cádiz)
From theory to practice: sizing nitrification/denitrification units for urban wastewater treatment
Accesit to the Best Poster Communication (Quercus Award)
José Manuel Zamora Marín (Universidad de Murcia)
Small ponds are big oases for terrestrial bird communities in a Mediterranean semiarid region
20/05/2020 - Clara Ruiz-González, awardee of the 2020 PIUS FONT I QUER award of the IEC
The Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC) has published the Sant Jordi 2020 Awards, which distinguish works and researchers from all areas of Catalan science and culture.
Clara Ruiz-González, member of SIBECOL and postdoctoral researcher in the Marine Microbial Ecology group of the Institut de Ciències del Mar, has received the award from the Biological Sciences Section PIUS FONT I QUER for Life Sciences, for her project "Microbial Metacommunities: dispersion and connectivity as determining factors of the diversity and function of aquatic microorganisms”.
Clara Ruiz-González focuses her research on understanding the relationship between diversity and function of aquatic microorganisms, mainly bacteria, as well as their role in different biogeochemical processes. During her career, she has progressively moved from a detailed experimental assessment of the responses of marine microbes to environmental factors, towards a more comprehensive and theoretical exploration of the regional and historical processes shaping microbial communities, by means of large-scale samplings of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems and massive DNA sequencing. This shift has allowed her to explore the relevance of factors such as dispersal and connectivity in shaping aquatic microbial communities. Some results show a high microbial connectivity between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems through the movement of water in the landscape, as well as between the surface and the deep ocean due to sinking particles. She is currently leading a project that explores the dispersal of species between fresh and marine water systems by investigating the effect of groundwater discharge in the Mediterranean.
More than a century recognizing Catalan excellence
The Sant Jordi Awards, established in 1914, constitute the oldest tradition of the IEC. For more than a century, these awards have promoted scientific research in diverse fields, culture and Catalan language. The awards integrate more than fifty recognitions, under the support of several sections, foundations, subsidiaries of the IEC and the Barcelona Provincial Council. This year, in total, the awards have exceeded 172,000 euros.
The complete list of awards included in the IEC LXXXIX Cartell de premis i de borses d'estudi can be found here: http://www.iec.cat/Comunicacio_IEC/Premis_2020_def_corr.pdf
07/01/2020 - Cristina Romera Castillo, awardee of the 2020 ASLO Lindeman Award
Congrats to our SIBECOL member Cristina Romera Castillo for receiving the ASLO Raymond L. Lindeman Award! She is the second Spanish recipient of this award (after last year's awardee A.G. Bravo, also a SIBECOL member!), which each year honors a young scientist for an outstanding paper in aquatic sciences. The awarded study, published last year in Nature Communications, is entitled “Dissolved organic carbon leaching from plastics stimulates microbial activity in the ocean”, and derives from her work at Vienna University (Austria) on the biogeochemistry of carbon in marine ecosystems. Dr. Romera-Castillo and collaborators demonstrate for the first time that the large amounts of plastic that we deliver to the oceans can leach dissolved organic carbon that is ultimately used by marine microorganisms such as bacteria. In addition, the study shows that the release of carbon by plastic fragments is altered by sunlight exposure in the ocean.
Dr. Cristina Romera-Castillo is currently a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, where she is leading her own research project of the interaction between plastic and marine microbes.
Congratulations again, Cristina!!
More information about this year’s individual awardees is available at https://www.aslo.org/aslo-awards/2020-aslo-award-recipients/
Dr. Cristina Romera-Castillo is currently a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, where she is leading her own research project of the interaction between plastic and marine microbes.
Congratulations again, Cristina!!
More information about this year’s individual awardees is available at https://www.aslo.org/aslo-awards/2020-aslo-award-recipients/
18/12/2018 - Andrea García Bravo, awardee of the 2019 ASLO Lindeman Award
Congrats to our SIBECOL board member Andrea García Bravo for receiving the ASLO Raymond L. Lindeman Award! She is the first Spanish recipient of this award, which each year honors a young scientist for an outstanding paper in aquatic sciences. The awarded study, published last year in Nature Communications, is entitled “Molecular composition of organic matter controls methylmercury formation in boreal lakes”, and derives from her extensive work at Uppsala University (Sweden) on mercury biogeochemistry in aquatic systems. Dr. García Bravo and collaborators demonstrate for the first time the relevant role of organic matter composition on mercury methylation rates in boreal lakes through its influence on bacterial activity.Dr. Andrea García Bravo is currently a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, where she is looking for genes involved in mercury processing in the ocean.
Congratulations again, Andrea!!
More information about this year’s individual awardees is available at https://aslo.org/page/2019-award-recipients
