Azores Deep-sea Research

Sérgio Gomes

Research Assistant Jul 2022 — Feb 2026

Sérgio has worked with us in the past with the position of Research Assistant in the team.

Autobiography

I am a science technician at the Okeanos Institute of Marine Sciences, University of the Azores. I was trained as an Audio, Video and T.V. technician in 2008, specialising in developing and maintaining electronic systems. I started my career supporting scientific research in July 2008 with an internship at the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries at the University of the Azores. Since then, I have been working at the University of the Azores with oceanographic instrumentation used in marine research, having acquired extensive experience with the operation and maintenance of oceanographic equipment.

Research interest

Over the last years, I became interested in developing, operating and maintaining oceanographic equipment, such as CTD, Rosette, ADCP, acoustic probes, telemetry equipment, EARs , current meters, gliders and ROVs. I have participated in many national and international scientific expeditions, including in large oceanographic vessels (e.g., RV Pelagia from NIOZ, and NRP Gago Coutinho, from the Portuguese Navy), medium sized (e.g., NI Arquipélago, and Águas Vivas from the Government of the Azores) and local fishing boats. Recently, I collaborated in developing and implementing equipment for investigation of the deep sea through underwater imaging, namely the Azor drift-cam system (filming of deep-sea habitats up to 1000 m depth) and BRUVs systems (cameras with bait for assessment of the diversity of deep-sea fish).

Last contributions in ADSR

Publications

Peer-reviewed (publication DOIs only)

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Cruise reports

DOIs from your cruises & projects

Zenodo

MapGES 2024 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the MT Physeter

Oct, 2024

15 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2024 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV Arquipélago

Oct, 2024

13 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2023 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the MT Physeter

Oct, 2023

15 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2023 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV Arquipélago

Oct, 2023

15 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2021 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores, summer 2021

Dec, 2022

11 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2022 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores, summer 2022

Sep, 2022

8 team members involved

Zenodo

Cruise report - 64PE479 onboard of R/V Pelagia Terceira Island 2020 - Hopper tow-cam video footage

Feb, 2021

3 team members involved

Zenodo

MapGES 2019: Summer 2019 cruise on board of N/I Arquipélago

Mar, 2020

1 citations

7 team members involved

Zenodo

Cruise Report - NICO Cruise Leg 12, Hopper dives on board of R/V Pelagia

Jan, 2019

2 team members involved

Zenodo

Cruise Report - MapGES / ATLAS Project: August 2018 Cruise on board of R/V Arquipélago

Jan, 2019

7 team members involved

Datasets

From your cruises & projects

Scale bar errors of cold-water coral 3D reconstructions from three different setups

Jan, 2025

1 citations

2 team members involved

Aquarium monitoring during an ex-situ experiment with the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus in the Azores

Jan, 2024

5 team members involved

Growth rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus during an ex-situ experiment in the Azores

Jan, 2024

5 team members involved

Respiration rates of the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment simulating deep-sea mining sediment plumes in the Azores

Jan, 2024

3 team members involved

Respiration rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus during an ex-situ experiment in the Azores

Jan, 2024

5 team members involved

Tissue loss of the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment simulating deep-sea mining sediment plumes in the Azores

Jan, 2024

3 team members involved

Aquarium monitoring during an ex-situ experiment on the effects of simulated deep-sea mining sediment plumes on the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor in the Azores

Jan, 2024

3 team members involved

Effect of suspended microplastics on larval swimming speed of the cold-water scleractinian coral of Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Cellular stress biomarkers result of the cold-water coral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Effect of suspended microplastics on larval survival of the cold-water scleractinian coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling short-term exposure on larval swimming speed of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling long-term exposure on larval survival of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling on embryonic survival of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling short-term exposure on larval survival of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling on embryonic development of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Respiration rates of the cold-water coral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Respiration rates of the cold-water coral Viminella flagellum during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Effects of ocean acidification on larval survival rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

1 team member involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling on embryo size of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Aquarium monitoring during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification on cold-water coral Dentomuricea aff. meteor

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Cellular stress biomarkers result of the cold-water coral Viminella flagellum during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Aquarium monitoring during a land-based experiment testing the cumulative effect of Cu exposure and ocean acidification on cold-water coral Viminella flagellum

Jan, 2024

4 team members involved

Combined impacts of ocean acidification and deep-sea mining on larval survival of the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

1 team member involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling short-term exposure on larval development of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

Maps resulting from Spatial Prioritisation carried out for iAtlantic - Systematic Conservation Planning reported in D5.3 and included in MS25

Jan, 2024

2 team members involved

FUN Azores: A trait database for the marine species of the ridges, seamounts, and hydrothermal vents of the Azores, NE Atlantic

Jan, 2023

1 citations

2 team members involved

Deep-sea mining impacts on larval survival of the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Feb, 2023

2 team members involved

Combined effect of ocean acidification and bottom trawling long-term exposure on larval swimming speed of the scleractinian cold-water-coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Mar, 2023

2 team members involved

Counts of live embryos and planula larvae of the antipatharian coral Antipathella wollastoni exposed to different seawater temperatures

Jan, 2023

2 team members involved

EUNIS habitat classification and associated confidence shapefiles for Atlantic regions investigated by the EU H2020 project iAtlantic (Version 3)

Jan, 2023

2 team members involved

Habitat suitability maps for vulnerable and foundation cold-water coral taxa of the Azores (NE Atlantic)

Jan, 2023

1 citations

6 team members involved

Embryo and larval biology of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor from the Azores under two temperature regimes

Jan, 2022

2 team members involved

Swimming behaviour of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor from the Azores under two temperature regimes

Jan, 2022

2 team members involved

Embryo development of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor from the Azores under two temperature regimes

Jan, 2022

2 team members involved

Larval stages of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor from the Azores under two temperature regimes

Jan, 2022

2 team members involved

Survival of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor from the Azores under two temperature regimes

Jan, 2022

2 team members involved

Effects of ocean acidification on larval swimming behaviour of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum

Feb, 2022

1 team member involved

Model outputs: Modelling the dispersion of Seafloor Massive Sulphide mining plumes in the Mid Atlantic Ridge around the Azores

Jan, 2022

3 team members involved

List of deep-sea benthic video stations collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

Outputs of predictive distribution models of deep-sea elasmobranchs in the Azores EEZ (down to 2,000m depth) using Generalized Additive Models

Jan, 2022

3 team members involved

CTD data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

SVP data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

List of stations with data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

ADCP data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

Nutrient data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

Multibeam Raw Data collected during the iMAR 2021/Eurofleets+ research cruise in Mid Atlantic Ridge (Azores EEZ)

Jan, 2022

5 team members involved

Embryo and larval biology of the deep-sea octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor

Jul, 2021

2 team members involved

Blue Azores Program Expedition 2018, Station 57, Dive 15: annotation of Paragorgia johnsoni Gray, 1862

Apr, 2021

1 citations

6 team members involved

Morphological measures of sclerome of the new octocoral species Swiftia phaeton during the MSM16 Cruise in 2010 at the Mauritanian Slope

Jan, 2020

1 team member involved

Morphological measures of colonies and polyps of the new octocoral species Swiftia phaeton during the MSM16 Cruise in 2010 at the Mauritanian Slope

Jan, 2020

1 team member involved

Video annotation of Swiftia phaeton during the MSM16 Cruise in 2010 at the Mauritanian Slope

Jan, 2020

1 team member involved

Feeding biology of two common habitat-forming octocorals in the Azores Archipelago

Jan, 2020

2 team members involved

Reproductive features of the deep-sea octocorals Dentomuricea aff. meteor and Viminella flagellum in the Azores

Jan, 2020

1 citations

1 team member involved

Cold-water octocoral Viminella flagellum respiration rates during an acute Cu exposure

Oct, 2019

3 team members involved

Results of an ex-situ experiment testing the effects of mining-generated sediment plumes on the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor in the Azores

Aug, 2014

1 citations

3 team members involved

Gene expression by the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment testing the effects of mining-generated sediment plumes

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Stress biomarkers in the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment in the Azores

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Metal bioaccumulation by the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment testing the effects of mining-generated sediment plumes

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Metal concentrations in seawater of an ex-situ experiment with the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Aquarium monitoring of an ex-situ experiment involving the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Metabolic rates of the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor during an ex-situ experiment in the Azores

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Suspended sediment concentrations of an ex-situ experiment with the cold-water octocoral Dentomuricea aff. meteor in the Azores

Aug, 2014

3 team members involved

Projects

MapGES2

On-going Project

Characterization of deep-sea habitats, for its mapping up to the outer limit of the Azores sub-area...

Funded by Regional Government of the Azores, EU, ACORES-14-62G4-FEDER-000001, PO Açores 2020, REACT-EU, ERDF

18/DRPM/2022, ACORES-14-62G4-FEDER-000001

ROLEX - Azor drift-cam project

Project

ROLEX - Azor drift-cam project

Funded by ROLEX

ROLEX

iAtlantic

Project

Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time

Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020

818123 (iAtlantic)

MapGES

Project

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores: assisting with the impl...

Funded by Regional Government of the Azores, PO Açores 2020, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF / FEDER)

ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-00056

Cruises

MapGES 2024 MT Physeter

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

12 scientific crew · 14 on board · 1 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2024 RV Arquipélago

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

12 scientific crew · 13 on board · 2 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2023 RV Arquipélago

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

12 scientific crew · 13 on board · 1 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2023 MT Physeter

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

12 scientific crew · 14 on board

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2022

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

6 scientific crew · 7 on board · 1 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2021

MapGES 2021 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores, summer 20...

4 scientific crew · 5 on board · 3 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

Terceira 2020

RV Pelagia cruise 64PE479: Terceira Island 2020

2 scientific crew · 2 on board · 5 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2019

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

4 scientific crew · 5 on board · 1 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew

MapGES 2018

Mapping deep-sea biodiversity and “Good Environmental Status” in the Azores

1 scientific crew · 2 on board · 2 collaborators

Sérgio Gomes's role: Scientific crew