Portugal é Mar

Portugal é Mar

Seminar III Doctoral degree on Earth and Space Sciences

 

Day – March, 4

Hour – 2:30 PM

Link –  https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85683128835?pwd=TTB2c0I4a3hqZVQ3cHFBeHFZeVVydz09

Title – The Portuguese Continental Shelf

Abstract – Within the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin. In cases where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines, the Convention grants the possibility to establish the outer limit of the continental shelf along that distance. When coastal States (like Portugal) define the outer limit of their continental shelf  beyond the 200 nautical miles, they should submit all supporting data and information to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, which will make recommendations on that matter. This concept of continental shelf differs significantly from its geological definition and both will be addressed in this webinar.

Lecturer – Pedro Madureira

Pedro Madureira is a geologist with a PhD in geochemistry and petrology. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Évora from 2006 to 2012, but since the end of 2012 he is the Deputy Head of the task group for the extension of the continental shelf (EMEPC). He was the chief scientist of several oceanographic cruises promoted by the EMEPC in the North Atlantic from 2008 to 2016. He has been studying the extended Portuguese continental shelf, particularly on the mantle source(s) feeding the volcanic islands and seamounts and also on the characterization of marine mineral resources. Since 2012 he is also a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority. At a national level he participated in several research projects and was the PI of the project EVOLV (PTDC/CTE-GIN/71838/2006) – EVOlution of Linear Volcanic ridges in the Central Azores: interaction between tectonics and magmatic processes. He is author and co-author of several papers in peer-review international scientific journals.

Current position – Deputy Head of the Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf

Scientific Interests – Volcanic islands, mantle sources, marine mineral resources, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.