Personal homepage | Joana Fernandez de Carvalho

Office: +351 289800900; Fax: +351 289 818353; E-mail: jfcarvalho@ualg.pt     

2010 to present: PhD student at the University of the Algarve.

2008-2010: Research biologist at the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida.

2008: MSc Marine Biology and Conservation, University of the Algarve.

2005: BSc. (Hon) Marine Biology and Fisheries, University of Algarve.

Current Research Interests

Currently I am a PhD student on "Population dynamics and fisheries assessment of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) in the Atlantic Ocean: a comparison between North and South Atlantic fishing stocks".

My current research interests are integrate multidisciplinary aspects of fisheries, biology, population dynamics and satellite telemetry to study pelagic sharks in an Ocean wide perspective, with the objective of providing and supporting science-based management initiatives.

Thesis

Fernandez-Carvalho J (2008) Application of underwater video techniques for the characterization of underwater benthic communities", Master thesis, Faculty of Marine Sciences and Environment, University of the Algarve.

Publications in international peer reviewed journals

Santos MN, Coelho R, Fernandez-Carvalho J & Amorim S. 2013. Effects of 17/0 circle hooks and bait on sea turtles bycatch in a Southern Atlantic swordfish longline fishery. Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2324.

Coelho R, Fernandez-Carvalho J, Lino PG, Santos MN. 2012. An overview of the hooking mortality of elasmobranchs caught in a swordfish pelagic longline fishery in the Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Living Resources, 25: 311-319.

Santos MN, Coelho R, Fernandez-Carvalho, J, Amorim S. 2012. Effects of hook and bait on sea turtle catches in an equatorial Atlantic pelagic longline fishery. Bulletin of Marine Science, 88 (3): 683–701.

Fernandez-Carvalho J, Coelho R, Erzini K & Santos MN. 2011. Age and growth of the bigeye thresher shark, Alopias superciliosus, from the pelagic longline fisheries in the tropical Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, determined by vertebral band counts. Aquat. Living Resour. 24 (4): 359–368.

Coelho R, Fernandez-Carvalho J, Amorim S & Santos MN. 2011. Age and growth of the smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena, in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Aquat. Living Resour. 24 (4): 351–357.

Coelho R, Rey J, Gil-de-Sola L, Fernandez-Carvalho J & Erzini K. 2010. Comparing NE Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of a deep water lanternshark, with comments on the efficiency of density dependant compensatory mechanisms. Mar. Biol. Res., 6: 373-380.

Castilho R, Freitas M, Silva G, Fernandez-Carvalho J, Coelho R. 2007. Morphological and mitochondrial DNA divergence validates blackmouth, Galeus melastomus, and Atlantic sawtail catsharks, Galeus atlanticus, as separate species. J. Fish Biol., 70 (supplement c): 366-358.