Madalena Cabral
PhD student
Madalena Cabral is a PhD student from Portugal, born in South Africa. With a Master’s Degree in Ecology and Environmental Management, she has been doing research diving since 2014. Starting off with coral reef monitoring and coral restoration in Thailand, she then worked as Science Program Coordinator for NGO’s in Mexico and Honduras. She has been fortunate enough to participate in a Whale shark satellite tagging project in Utila, Honduras and in a Wildlife Documentary including Sperm Whales and Chilian Devil Rays in Azores, Portugal. Her love for diving and marine life has brought her to La Paz, where she is now doing her PhD thesis on Movement, Ecology and Population Structure of Giant Mantas in Revillagigedo Archipelago, using photo ID and satellite tagging. Her project is under the advisory of Dr. Hector Reyes and Dr. James Ketchum in a collaboration between the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur and Pelagios Kakunjá.
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