Sofia Ferreira

Background
My main research topics focus on the effects of environmental conditions on plankton and fish stocks under external pressures, such as climate change and fisheries. I graduated from the University of Algarve (Portugal) in Marine Biology, finished a MSc in Fisheries Biology and Management at the University of Bergen (Norway), and completed a PhD in Marine Ecology and Oceanography from the Technical University of Denmark (Denmark). I have since joined two very distinct projects for my first and second post-doctoral positions; one on plankton seasonality in the NorthEast Pacific at the University of Washington (USA) and Strathclyde University (UK), and another one on seasonal movements of commercial fish populations explained by the environment at the Technical University of Denmark (Denmark).
SPITFIRE
I started working on “SPITFIRE - Spatial variability and Implications of the Timing of Fish Responses to the Environment” on November 1, 2018. This is a Marie-Curie funded project and is a collaboration with Joël Durant from CEES and Anna Neuheimer from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA), but currently on leave at a COFUND (Marie Curie) Fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Denmark). The main goal of SPITFIRE is to quantify the ability of an improved MMH to globally explain fish dynamics, by acknowledging the roles of zooplankton, space and mismatch. Soon, I will be adding updates on SPITFIRE on my website www.asofiaaferreira.com.
Publications
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Ferreira ASA, Stige LC, Neuheimer AB, Bogstad B, Yaragina N, Prokopchuke I, Durant JM. Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system. 2020. Marine Ecology Progress Series, LFCav5. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13276.
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Friedland KD, Mouw CB, Asch RG, Ferreira ASA, Henson S, Hyde K, Morse RE, Thomas AC, Brady DC. Phenology and time series trends of the dominant seasonal phytoplankton bloom across global scales. 2018. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00:1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12717.
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Holt RE, Woods P, Ferreira ASA, Bardarson H, Bonanomi S, Boonstra WJ, Butler W, Diekert FK, Fouzai N, Holma M, Kokkalis A, Kvile KØ, Malanski E, Nieminen E, Ottosen KM, Richter A, Pedersen MW, Richter A, Rogers L, Romagnoni G, Snickars M Törnroos A, Weigel B, Whittington JD, Yletyinen J. Avoiding pitfalls in interdisciplinary education. 2017. Climate Research, 74:121-129. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr01491.
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Kristiansen I, Gaard E, Hátún H, Jonasdottir S, Ferreira ASA. Persistent shift of Calanus spp. in the south-western Norwegian Sea since 2003, linked to ocean climate. 2015. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 10.1093/icesjms/fsv222.
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Pedersen MW, Kokkalis A, Bardarson H, Bonanomi S, Boonstra WJ, Butler W, Diekert FK, Fouzai N, Holma M, Holt RE, Kvile KØ, Nieminen E, Ottosen KM, Richter A, Rogers L, Romagnoni G, Snickars M, Törnroos A, Weigel B, Whittington JD, Woods P, Yletyinen J, Ferreira ASA. Trends in marine climate change research in the Nordic region since the first IPCC report. 2015. Climatic Change, 134(1-2): 147-161.
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Boonstra WJ, Ottosen KM, Ferreira ASA, Richter A, Rogers L, Pedersen MW, Kokkalis A, Bardarson H, Bonanomi S, Butler W, Diekert FK, Fouzai N, Holma M, Holt RE, Kvile KØ, Malanski E, Nieminen E, Romagnoni G, Snickars M, Törnroos A, Weigel B, Woods P, Yletyinen J, Whittington JD. What are the major global threats and impacts in marine environments? Investigating the contours of a shared perception among marine scientists from the bottom-up. 2015. Marine Policy, 60: 197-201.
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Ferreira ASA, Hátún H, Counillon F, Payne MR, Visser AW. Synoptic scale analysis of mechanisms driving surface chlorophyll dynamics in the North Atlantic. 2015. Biogeosciences, 12, 3641-3653, doi:10.5194/bg-12-3641-2015.
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Ferreira ASA, Visser AW, MacKenzie B, Payne MR. Accuracy and precision in the calculation of phenology metrics. 2014. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119: 8438–8453, doi:10.1002/2014JC010323.
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Silva T, Gislason A, Licandro P, Marteinsdóttir G, Ferreira ASA, Gudmundsson K, Astthorsson OS. Long-term changes of euphausiids in shelf and oceanic habitats southwest, south and southeast of Iceland. 2014. Journal of Plankton Research, 0(0): 1-17.
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Hovland EK, Dierssen HM, Ferreira ASA, Johnsen G. Dynamics regulating major trends in Barents Sea temperatures and the subsequent effect on remotely sensed particulate inorganic carbon. 2013. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 484: 17-32.
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Ferreira ASA, Stenevik E,Vollset KW, Korneliussen R, Folkvord A. Vertical migration of Norwegian spring-spawning herring larvae in relation to predator and prey distribution. 2012. Marine Biology Research, 8: 605-614.
- Ferreira, Ana Sofia De Araújo; Stige, Leif Christian; Neuheimer, Anna B.; Bogstad, Bjarte; Yaragina, Natalia A.; Prokopchuk, Irina & Durant, Joel Marcel (2020). Match-mismatch dynamics in the Norwegian-Barents Sea system. Marine Ecology Progress Series. ISSN 0171-8630. 650, s 81- 94 . doi: 10.3354/MEPS13276 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary