I'm planing to travel on vacances to europe, probably to Portugal and perhaps countries nearer to Portugal, as Spain, France and Italy.
I'm interested on visiting labs, institutes, museuns related to my working areas (Fish and benthic ecology, as also environmental education), so, I'm asking for some recomendations from researshers from these countries.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I will let others suggest specific institutions. My personal experience (of quite a long time ago) with marine biology stations in Southern Europe is that many of them are operated with scarce staff (often based at a regular university and visiting the station only periodically) and on very tight budgets. You will probably notice that many of these stations have seen better days in a rather distant past. Therefore:
- Take contact with the staff of the stations you want to visit well in advance (months in advance, rather than days). Make sure they will be present and have some time available for you during your visit. Explain in detail the duration and purpose of your planned visit.
- Avoid the summer and Christmas vacations. Most or all staff will be absent at that time.
- Some marine biology stations have small educational exhibitions available. Ask information about them if you are interested. They may be open only on specific days or hours, or may need to be booked in advance.
- If you intend to do some work at a marine biology station (as opposed to just a casual visit of half an hour), explain well in advance what you need, and be prepared for them to ask you to pay for the costs associated with the use of equipment and materials (and sometimes, also staff time). The use of local library facilities at a station, on the other hand, is most likely free but may need to be arranged in advance.
Visite os laboratórios de Biologia Marinha da Universidade do Porto e na Espanha no Vigo.
O Oceanario de Lisboa pode te trazer boas contribuições em Educação para a conservação marinha.
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