GUE Instructor resumé

Professional

• Invited Professor at the University of the Algarve for Scientific Diving
• Researcher at the Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) - Habitat restoration
• Manager and DSO at the Scientific Diving Center of CCMAR

Education

• Doctoral Degree (PhD) at the University of the Algarve in Marine Biology and Conservation

Diving Qualifications

• GUE Instructor Trainer (Fundies, Rec1, Scientific Diver)
• GUE examiner (Scientific Diver)
• GUE Technical diver
• Fundamentals Instructor
• REC 1 - Instructor
• REC 2 - Instructor
• REC 3 - Instructor
• Scientific Diving Instructor
• GUE DPV instructor
• GUE Gas Blender Instructor
• CPR & First AID Instructor
• PSCR diver

Diving Experience

• 20+ years diving experience
• 1500+ mixed gas dives
• 700+ scientific dives

Community Involvement

• Co-founder and diver for Deep Reefs Project (www.Deepreefs.com)
• Researcher and Diver on the Global Sub Expedition to implement Project Base Line in the Azores, South Portugal and South France
• Scientific support for Project Base Line Portugal.

Special interests

• Scientific Diving
• Research and Conservation
• Habitat mapping and restoration

Publications

• Correia, M., Paulo, D., Samara, E., Koulouri, P., Mentogiannis, V., & Dounas, C. (2020). Field studies of seahorse population density, structure and habitat use in a semi‐closed north‐eastern Mediterranean marine area (Stratoni, north Aegean Sea). Journal of Fish Biology.
• Paulo, D. P., Dieckmann O., Ramos A. A., Alberto F., Serrao, E. A. (2019) Sexual reproduction vs. clonal propagation in the recovery of a seagrass meadow after an extreme weather event. Scientia Marina, in press.
• Paulo, D. F., Cunha, A., Boavida, J. R., Serrao, E. A., Gonçalves, E. J., & Fonseca, M. S. (2019). Open coast seagrass restoration. Can we do it?. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 52.
• Alexandre, A., Silva, J., Ferreira, R., Paulo, D., Serrão, E. A., & Santos, R. (2017). First description of seagrass distribution and abundance in São Tomé and Príncipe. Aquatic Botany, 142, 48-52.
• Boavida, J., Paulo, D., Aurelle, D., Arnaud-Haond, S., Marschal, C., Reed, J., ... & Serrao, E. A. (2016). A well-kept treasure at depth: Precious red coral rediscovered in Atlantic deep coral gardens (SW Portugal) after 300 years. PloS one, 11(1), e0147228.
• Fernández, C. G., Paulo, D., Serrão, E. A., & Engelen, A. H. (2016). Limited differences in fish and benthic communities and possible cascading effects inside and outside a protected marine area in Sagres (SW Portugal). Marine environmental research, 114, 12-23.
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• Paulo, D., Manent, P., Barrio, J. M., Alvares Serrao, E., & Alberto, F. (2016). Recruit survival of Cymodocea nodosa along a depth gradient. CAHIERS DE BIOLOGIE MARINE, 57(2), 137-144.
• Gonçalves E. J., Abecasis D., Horta B., Erzini K., Paulo D., Assis J., Boavida J., Serrão E., (2015). Implementação do Parque Marinho Professor Luiz Saldanha (Parque Natural da Arrábida): Ponto de situação realizado no âmbito do Projeto de conservação e gestão BIOMARES. ed. 1, ISBN: 978-989-97260-6-2. Lisboa: Gobius Comunicação e Ciência
• Cunha, A. H., Varela-Alvarez, E., Paulo, D. S., Sousa, I., & Serrão, E. (2013). The rediscovery of Caulerpa prolifera in Ria Formosa, Portugal, 60 years after the previous record. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 54(3), 359-364.
• Runcie, J. W., Paulo, D., Santos, R., Sharon, Y., Beer, S., & Silva, J. (2009).
• Photosynthetic responses of Halophila stipulacea to a light gradient. I. In situ energy partitioning of non-photochemical quenching. Aquatic Biology, 7(1-2), 143-152.
• GUE Quest Magazine 12.4, "DeepReefs: GUE Divers Serving Marine Science"
• Planeta d’Água Magazine, “Diving at the Azores”

Additional languages

• Portuguese -Fluente
• English - Fluente
• Spanish - Fluente
• French - Understands, speaks

Additional Info

GUE Instructor since April 2012
110+ classes (200 + students) on GUE Curriculums
Scientific Diver class developer