I was the recipient of the 2023 William A. Niering Outstanding Educator Award from ​​the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (Link HERE)

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JUNE 2021 Organizing the hybrid seminar "A path towards the blue economy for the Atlantic blue crab in the non-native range" with Dr. Eric Schott (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore) as guest-speaker. ​
JANUARY 2023
Happy to have joined the editorial board of Estuaries and Coasts.
OCTOBER 2022 The Frontiers for Young Minds collection "Where the river meets the ocean - Stories from San Francisco Estuary" is now published in ebook format HERE.
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APRIL 2016 Book published

Morais P & Daverat F (editors) (2016) An Introduction to Fish Migration. Boca Raton, Florida (USA). CRC Press. 307p. ISBN 9781498718738.

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​JUNE 2016
New non-indigenous species identified in the Guadiana estuary
(CLICK HERE)
​​Weakfish Cynoscion regalis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Sciaenidae) is native from the northwest Atlantic Ocean, and a single specimen of this species was collected by professional fishermen in the Guadiana estuary (SW Iberian Peninsula, Europe) on June 16th, 2016. This specimen was identified by P. Morais.

Common Portuguese name
  • corvinata real.
​Synonyms
  • corvina americana (Guadiana estuary)
  • rainha (Sado and Tagus estuary)
​​PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 2024 AND 2023

4. Morais P, Sturrock A, Phillis CC, Whitman G, Carlson SM, Johnson RC (submitted July 1, 2024) Droughts delay juvenile salmon migration timing and truncate habitat use diversity. Ecology.

​3. Encarnação J, Teodósio MA, Morais P (2024) The arrival of a non-indigenous ecosystem engineer to a heavily invaded and flow-regulated estuary in southern Portugal. BioInvasions Records 13(1): 83-95. doi: 10.3391/bir.2024.13.1.08.

2. Costa E, Encarnação J, Teodósio MA, Morais P (2023) Aquatic species shows asymmetric distribution range shifts in native and non-native areas. Frontiers in Marine Science 10: 1158206. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1158206.

1. Dias E, Morais P, Antunes C, Hoffman JC (2023) The benthic food web connects the estuarine habitat mosaic to adjacent ecosystems. Food Webs e00282. doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2023.e00282.
NEMA - CITIZEN SCIENCE CAMPAIGN
New Marine Species of the Algarve 
​João Encarnação (CCMAR, Univ. of Algarve) is leading a citizen science campaign to track the presence and spread of non-indigenous species and tropical species along the coast of the Algarve (southern Portugal). Check NEMA's social media and report new observations.