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Education / Internships

Internships

The program of internships is principally meant for graduates from the courses of Aquatic Environmental Sciences and Biology, but candidates of other areas are also accepted. Over the last 20 years, students of different university courses had been working in the Station on the following topics:

  • Aquarium photography. High School of Arts, Porto, 1999/2000.
  • Ecological succession of the rocky intertidal fauna. ICBAS, UP, 1999/2000.
  • Abundance of goose-barnacle larvae. Faculty of Sciences, UP, 2000.
  • Maintenance of marine turtles in captivity. ICBAS, UP, 2001.
  • Intertidal populations of sea-urchins. University of the Azores, 2001.
  • Marine aquariums in semi-closed systems. Project Aquarium Porto Moniz, Madeira, 2002/2003.
  • Ecological impact of the Aguda breakwater. Faculty of Sciences. UP, 2000/2001.
  • Culture of the European lobster. ICBAS, UP, 2002/2003.
  • Geomorphological aspects and the intertidal fauna and flora of Vila Nova de Gaia’s coast. UP, 2003/2004.
  • Quality of sea water. Faculty of Science, UP, 2005/2006.
  • Effects of sand accumulation in tide pools of the Aguda beach. ICBAS, UP, 2007.
  • Maintenance of saltwater and freshwater aquariums. Catholic University of Porto UCP, 2008.
  • Maintenance of saltwater and freshwater aquariums. Superior School of Agriculture, Viseu, 2009.
  • Experimental and commercial fishing, recapture, cultivation and restocking of European lobster (Homarus gammarus). Superior School of Agriculture, Viseu, 2010/11.
  • Experimental fishing, recapture and restocking of European lobster (Homarus gammarus). ICBAS, UP, 2011/2012
  • Aquarium maintenance, fish feeding, environmental education. CEAR, Loja-do-Mar, Liceu Francês do Porto, 2012.
  • A future Multicultural Centre in Praia da Aguda. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão ISEG, Porto, 2013.
  • Dangerous and poisonous marine animals on the Portuguese continental coast. ICBAS, UP, 2013.
  • Animal Husbandry. MBO Professional Training School Massland, Netherlands, 2017.
  • Maintenance of freshwater and saltwater aquariums. School of Tourism and Technology of the Sea, Peniche, 2018.
  • Experimental fishing, marking, recapture and cultivation of the European lobster (Homarus gammarus). ICBAS, UP, 2018, 2019.
  • Maintenance of saltwater and freshwater aquariums. University of Aveiro UA, 2019.
  • Artificial decoration of saltwater aquariums, ICBAS, UP, 2020.