Raquel Gaspar

Portuguese marine biologist

Raquel Gaspar is a Portuguese marine biologist and community conservationist known for studying dolphin populations in the Sado River estuary in the Setúbal District of Portugal. She was a founder of the Ocean Alive NGO, which promotes the participation of women from fishing communities to protect seagrass beds and, consequently, the oceans.²

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Companies

Ocean AliveFounder¹³

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of St Andrews³

Dora Raquel Heleno Gaspar was born in Colmeias in the Leiria municipality of Portugal. As a child, her interest in the sea was sparked by watching television documentaries by Jacques Cousteau. Between 1988 and 1994 she attended the Faculty of Science at the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in marine biology. From 1997 to 2002 she was at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she obtained a PhD. with a thesis on the status of the resident bottlenose dolphin population in the Sado estuary.

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Career

Occupation: researcher, marine biologist, activist.⁶

Since 2015Worked at Ocean Alive⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Lisbon Oceanarium⁴
Date not recordedFounded Ocean Alive⁵

Personal life

BornColmeias^{7 8}
CitizenshipPortugal⁹

Awards

2019Medalha de Mérito Científico^{10 12}
Date not recordedTerre des Femmes Award^{10 11}

Sources

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