“New urgencies are bringing man back to the sea from whence all life has sprung.” – Jacques Piccard, 1961
We are working to
Further our understanding of marine life and ecosystems, to inform conservation and good practice.
Educate and inspire with stories of marine life, scientific research and our remarkable, life-sustaining ocean.
Develop low-cost technologies that improve access to marine research and empower citizen scientists.
MARE-Madeira in the press
One of our long-term research ambitions is to create a collaborative deep-sea research hub in Madeira, where scientists from around the world can come to explore the deep sea more time- and cost-efficiently. Read our article in Oceanographic Magazine to learn more about this vision.
This initiative is already moving forward through TWILIGHTED (TWInning Laboratory for an Innovative, Global Hub To Explore the Deep). TWILIGHTED is our EU-funded project in partnership with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway), helping us develop deep-sea research expertise and creative alternatives to state-of-the-art deep-sea technologies. Learn more on our TWILIGHTED website.
Latest podcasts
In conversation with aquatic researchers and the local community. Some episodes are in English, others are in Portuguese (as per the title). Check out our Spotify profile today! And do give a round of applause to Joana Camacho, one of our MARE-Madeira Youth Ambassadors for her beautiful viola playing, which you hear on our show.
Publications
View MARE-Madeira researchers’ publications across peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings and more.
Latest Stories
Doing Impossible Things
Doing Impossible Things This post was originally written on the TWILIGHTED project website by Diane Esson in March 2025 The idea started, as most ideas do, by stealing (and adapting) someone else’s. In a conversation with former leadership at Microsoft…
Academia Azul: Take One
It started as a vision for what we might bring to young people on Madeira and how we as a community can do better by the ocean. Now? Now it's happening!
Whales and dolphins and models – oh my!
All the things we don't know about whales and dolphins, how these animals combat climate change and what you can do to help.
Photo credits: Feature image by Nuno Vasco Rodrigues; underwater diver by João Monteiro; Madeira rockfish by Alejandro Escánez; footer image by João Monteiro