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Isabel Gonçalves

Oceanologist

Oceanologist and Doctor in Environmental Education from FURG, during her postdoctoral research at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA).

She has dedicated herself to analyzing global climate change and its impacts on coastal areas, developing indicators and strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Throughout her career, she has worked in both academic research and the third sector, through the OSC Kaosa, consolidating her expertise in Participatory Socioenvironmental Diagnostics, focusing on the socio-economic, ethnoecological, and structural aspects of fishing. Her integrated approach includes environmental education and social communication, aiming for the sustainable management of fishery resources, the conservation of endangered species, and the well-being of fishing communities. In the last ten years, she has focused her efforts on the interaction between fishing and marine conservation, with an emphasis on the protection of the Lahille's dolphin and the Franciscana. Working with traditional communities and institutional actors, she has refined her skills in field data collection and analysis, promoting collaborative environmental conservation based on the premise that conservation is a social process involving science.