Diana Sousa Guedes

Diana Sousa Guedes is a Ph.D. student in Biology at the University of Porto. She has a scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia since 2021 (https://doi.org/10.54499/2020.04775.BD). Her current research is about understanding how plastic pollution and climatic changes are affecting the nesting beaches of loggerhead turtles in Cabo Verde. She is analysing these effects at multiple scales: at a finer scale, the effect of plastic pollution on embryos' incubation success, hatchlings' emergence from nests and chemical contamination of sand. At a broader scale, the overlap of plastic pollution and loggerhead turtle nests in Cabo Verde and also how the future sea level rise may impact those beaches. In the scope of this topic, she published three peer-reviewed scientific papers on high impact journals (Animal Conservation, Marine Pollution Bulletin, and Environmental Pollution). Broadly, she is interested in biogeography, island ecology, marine pollution, and spatial analysis.

April 2024