Rui Santos received his Ph.D. in Biology from University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada (1993).

Tim Deprez is Joint Programme Coordinator at Ghent University, Belgium.

Karim obtained a PhD in Biological Oceanography in 1990 from the University of Rhode Island.

Lars Stemmann defended his PhD thesis at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (PARIS VI) in 1998.

Ian O’Connor, lecturer at GMIT, is an active researcher in marine megafauna conservation and biodiversity assessment.

Yaisel Juan Borrell Pichs (DNI 71805696H) holds a Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Havana, Cuba, and he