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Rui Prieto

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Name

Rui Prieto

Position

Integrated member

Nationality

Portuguese

Birthday

17 Nov

ORC ID

0000-0002-0354-2572

Ciencia ID

9C11-BDD1-CED4

OKEANOS ID

OKEANOS-22

INTEGRATED MEMBER OKEANOS MEMBER NO. 22
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About Rui Prieto

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Rui Prieto is an Auxiliary Researcher at the Okeanos Institute of Marine Sciences (Un. Azores). Growing up in Brazil, Prieto was fascinated by the oceans from an early age, even though he lived four hours away from the nearest coastal town. Even before enrolling in the university, he was involved in marine research through internships with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He earned a bachelor’s in Marine Biology from the University of Algarve, Portugal, in 1997. He settled in the Azores islands where he pursued a career researching marine mammal behavior and ecology and earned his PhD in Marine Sciences. Among other achievements, he was awarded a prestigious National Geographic Explorer grant (2021). Prieto invetigates the social, behavioral, and physiological parameters of marine animals. With colleagues in the Azores Whale Lab within the Okeanos Institute, he pioneered in Portugal the use of several biologging (automatically recording data from living organisms) and biotelemetry (remotely receiving data from living organisms) tools for studying cetaceans. The resulting knowledge is instrumental to advance ecological theory and in aiding the development of policies for the sustainable use of the marine ecosystems

Research areas

Primary areas of research

Ecology Biogeography Ocean technology Conservation Behaviour Biodiversity Habitat mapping

Research Techs

Technologies and techniques of interest

Tagging Telemetry Ecological modelling Optical imagery (video, photography) Satellite imagery

Organisms

Organisms with a greater spotlight

Marine Turtles Cetaceans

Ecosystems

Ecosystems with a stronger research focus

Pelagic: Epipelagic Pelagic: Mesopelagic

Equipments

Equipments operated or owned

RIB vessels Research vessels

Labs

Laboratories where the user operates

Laboratory Analytical Instruments Biological Sampling Wet Laboratory

Other areas

Other areas os interest

Scientific Media & communication

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