Azores Deep-sea Research

Manuela Ramos

PhD student May 2022 — Present

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Manuela is currently working with us with the position of PhD student in the team.

Autobiography

Deep-sea benthic Ecologist working at IMAR/Okeanos. Her main focus is the benthic megafauna living under some of the most prominent, isolated and less studied geomorphological features from the large Azores Region. Participates in expeditions involving a sort of in-situ assessments on these areas, using video footage (ROVs, drop-down and drift cameras imagery) and biological sampling, seeking for new species and/or distribution records. Also interested in enviromental (geological and oceanographic) data to find the main drivers of benthic assemblages ecological distribution patterns and their biogeographic affinities. Her work outputs are fundamental contributions towards an integrated ecological conservation and management of the Azores Region threatened or endangered Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (e.g. coral gardens and sponge aggregations communities).

Research interest

Deep Sea Benthic Ecology

Last contributions in ADSR

Publications

Peer-reviewed (publication DOIs only)

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Democratizing deep-sea research for biodiversity conservation

Oct, 2025

4 team members involved

Marine Biodiversity

From physics to fish: 50 Years of research at Great Meteor Seamount, NE Atlantic

Jan, 2025

1 citations

2 team members involved

The Science of The Total Environment

Predicting the distribution and abundance of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) in the deep sea of the Azores (North Atlantic)

Aug, 2023

19 citations Rising

4 team members involved

Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Spatial distributions, environmental drivers and co-existence patterns of key cold-water corals in the deep sea of the Azores (NE Atlantic)

Mar, 2023

20 citations

3 team members involved

Ecology and Evolution

Dense cold‐water coral garden of Paragorgia johnsoni suggests the importance of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge for deep‐sea biodiversity

Nov, 2021

21 citations

4 team members involved

Frontiers in Marine Science

North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Mar, 2021

12 citations

4 team members involved

Marine Ecology

Patterns in megabenthic assemblages on a seamount summit (Ormonde Peak, Gorringe Bank, Northeast Atlantic)

Aug, 2016

27 citations

1 team member involved

Journal of Marine Systems

Primary production enhancement in a shallow seamount (Gorringe — Northeast Atlantic)

Jul, 2016

17 citations

1 team member involved

Aquatic Biology

Laminaria hyperborea photosynthesis-irradiance relationship measured by oxygen production and pulse-amplitude-modulated chlorophyll fluorometry

Jun, 2013

12 citations

1 team member involved

Cruise reports

DOIs from your cruises & projects

Zenodo

MapGES 2025 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV Arquipélago

Sep, 2025

10 team members involved

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

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

Oct, 2023

9 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

iMAR 2022: Integrated assessment of the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Azores region - Cruise Report.

Dec, 2022

8 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 for 64PE488 onboard of R/V Pelagia Terceira Island 2021 - Towed camera video footage

Jun, 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

MapGES 2020 Cruise Report: Exploration of Azores deep-sea habitats, summer 2020

Dec, 2020

8 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

Zenodo

Cruise Report - BLUE AZORES PROGRAM EXPEDITION 2018 ON BOARD THE NRP GAGO COUTINHO

Jan, 2019

6 team members involved

Zenodo

Greenpeace Pole-to-Pole expedition – Azores 2019

Jun, 2019

1 citations

3 team members involved

Zenodo

Cruise Summary Report - Medwaves Survey (Mediterranean Out Flow Water And Vulnerable Ecosystems)

Apr, 2017

11 citations

2 team members involved

Datasets

From your cruises & projects

Food incorporation of vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) indicator taxa from the Azores, Viminella flagellum and Dentomuricea meteor under competition

Jan, 2026

1 team member involved

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

Zooplankton capture rates by the octocoral species Dentomuricea aff. meteor and Viminella flagellum in the Azores Archipelago

Jan, 2020

2 team members 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

Feeding biology of a habitat forming antipatharian 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

Morphological measurements and video annotation of the new octocoral Swiftia phaeton sp. nov. during the cruise MSM 16-3 Phaeton in 2010 off the Mauritanian Slope

Jan, 2020

1 team member involved

North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Nov, 2020

8 team members involved

ATLAS work on Good Environmental Status across 9 study areas in the northeast Atlantic

Jan, 2020

2 team members involved

Compilation of records of vulnerable marine ecosystem indicator taxa in the North Atlantic

Jan, 2020

3 team members involved

Set of terrain (static in time) and environmental (dynamic in time) variables used as candidate predictors of present-day (1951-2000) and future (2081-2100) suitable habitat of cold-water corals and deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic

Jan, 2020

6 citations

3 team members involved

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

Oct, 2019

3 team members involved

Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic

Jan, 2019

2 citations

3 team members involved

Species Richness and Taxonomic effort on the study of Octocorallia of the Azores

Jan, 2018

2 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

DEEP

On-going Project

DEEP: Deep-sea Ecosystem Evaluation for Policy solutions

Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.

2025.00366.AZO

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

MarinePlan

Project

Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conse...

Funded by European Union’s Horizon Europe

101059407 (MarinePlan)

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)

iMAR

Project

Integrated assessment of the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem along the Mid-Atlantic Ridg...

Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020

824077 (EUROFLEETS+)

Blue Azores

Project

Blue Paper Cooperation protocol

Funded by Fundação Oceano Azul

ATLAS

Project

A transatlantic assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe

Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020

678760 (ATLAS)

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 2025 RV Arquipélago

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

7 scientific crew · 8 on board · 2 collaborators

Manuela Ramos'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

Manuela Ramos'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

Manuela Ramos'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

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

iMAR 2022

iMAR: Integrated assessment of the distribution of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem along the Mid-Atlanti...

7 scientific crew · 8 on board

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

Terceira 2021

RV Pelagia cruise 64PE488: Terceira Island 2021

1 scientific crew · 1 on board · 7 collaborators

Manuela Ramos'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

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

Greenpeace 2019

Greenpeace Pole-to-Pole expedition: Azores 2019

2 scientific crew · 3 on board · 1 collaborators

Manuela Ramos'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

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

Blue Azores 2018

Blue Azores Program: Expedition 2018

3 scientific crew · 4 on board · 1 collaborators

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

MedWaves 2016

MEDiterranean out flow WAter and Vulnerable EcosystemS

2 scientific crew · 2 on board · 46 collaborators

Manuela Ramos's role: Scientific crew

OceanX 2023

Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV OceanXplorer

0 scientific crew · 8 on board · 1 collaborators

Manuela Ramos's role: Chief scientist