technology, sustainability, philosophy and design research
Greta recently began a new position as postdoctoral researcher at BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change in the Leioa, near Bilbao, Spain. As a research center BC3 is entirely focused on the investigation of climate change phenomena providing support and tools for policy-makers. She is part of research line 5. “Integrated Modelling of Coupled Human-Natural… Read more »
The paper “Conceptual Integration for Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach”, which demonstrates an application of ontological analysis in the sustainability context, has been accepted and presented at the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022). The paper proposes an ontological clarification and a conceptual integration of two social-ecological systems framework elements, social-ecological system… Read more »
Our paper “Conceptual Integration for Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach” has been accepted and presented at the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) which was held in Barcelona (Spain). During the conference were discussed several important topics, including gender equality within the field. For example, Prof. Dr. Florence Sèdes from… Read more »
We surveyed the underwater area of Pt. do Lazareto using quadrats every 5 m. on 50 m. transect and visual census. The goal of the study was to identify: (i) the sessile and (ii) the coastal fish species in order to later compare the findings with other areas of the same dive site. Indeed the… Read more »
Today we had a look at some of the internals for the next phase of the data buoy project, water quality sensing. This is an extension of the wave dynamics monitoring, and in this first session we laid out the circuitry for one of the four Atlas Scientific sensors from whitebox.ch we will be using,… Read more »
Our current project in Madeira (see https://islandfutures.net/databuoy/) involves quite a lot of diving plans and subsurface activity in the test site at Ponta do Lazareto, Madeira. Some tasks are simply manual labor underwater, but we consider it all ‘scientific diving’ as the diving is a tool for our research. There are two main entries and… Read more »