On 28 December 2024, the DEMO PT team from the CESAM and University of Aveiro was at the Rio Novo do Príncipe school in Cacia to continue the ocean literacy activities of the A-AAGORA project. Researcher Daniel Crespo (CESAM / DBio) presented the profession of Marine Biologist and answered many pertinent questions from the students of the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education, who showed interest and curiosity in the area. After the discussion, the students were able to see some of the equipment used in fieldwork (such as diving equipment, mud walking boots, or sediment and biological material samplers) and the biological samples (invertebrate animals collected in the intertidal areas of estuarine systems – for example bivalves, gastropods, or polychaetes) and understand the day-to-day life in this field of research.
This initiative is part of the A-AAGORA project’s planned activities to raise awareness of the reduction of marine litter and follows on from the art workshop with marine litter and the visit to ECOMARE, organised by the same school previously.