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Antony Pieters was our Research Assistant in 2025. In his time with us, he shot videos during fieldwork and in our Research Station. The result is a beautiful wildlife documentary portrait of our work. You […]

AIMM has moved! But not far… We have our headquarters now in Tunes, a small, centrally located village in the Silves municipality of the Algarve. You can visit us here! We are just on the […]

Filipe, L.V., Canelas, J., Vieira, M., Fonseca, F.C., Cid, A., Castro, J., Machado, I. (2026). Advancing marine mammal monitoring: Large-scale UAV delphinidae datasets and robust motion tracking for group size estimation. Machine Learning with Applications, […]

AIMM went on a trip in a sailing ship!Santa Maria Manuela historic Portuguese ship has partnered with AIMM. Know more about the vessel here. Our Research Voyage with Santa Maria Manuela came to an end this […]

We are proud to announce that our Researcher Miguel Martins has served as both co-author and illustrator for Chapter 19 of the newly published Ridgway and Harrison’s Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 2: Oceanic Dolphins. […]

A new partnership emerges!Santa Maria Manuela historic Portuguese ship has partnered with AIMM. Know more about the ship here. In this year’s mid November Canary Islands voyage, guests will be able to join our researcher and […]

At AIMM, we are dedicated to understanding and protecting marine life through scientific research, education, and conservation initiatives.Discover our mission, meet our team, and see how science and technology help us protect the ocean.Our institutional […]

Vizeu-Pinheiro, M., Rogan, E., Cid, A., Castro, J., Borges, F.O. (2025). Environmental influence on Bottlenose dolphin (𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴) abundance in Southern Portugal. 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, Volume 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2025.104569 This study analyzed nine years […]

In this eye-opening episode of Travel Devil (Episode 35), our President and Researcher Dr. Joana Castro shares her two decades of experience studying cetaceans in Portugal, with the podcast’s host Clara Francken. Joana unpacks what makes some wildlife […]

Heidi Pearson during a humpback whale survey off Juneau in May 2025. Photo credit: Chris Pearson Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Pearson, Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Southeast, on receiving a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award […]

Canelas, J., Clementino, L., Cid, A., Castro, J., Machado, I., Vieira, S. (2025). Automated cetacean detection in UAV imagery using AI models: a case study on Delphinid species. Int J Data Sci Anal.https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-024-00704-9 AIMM’s first […]

Silva, I.M., Jesus, N., Castro, J., Luís, A.R. (2024). The Effects of Vessel Traffic on the Behavior Patterns of Common Dolphins in the Tagus Estuary (Portugal). Animals, 14, 2998. (2024).https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14202998 This is the third paper […]

Silva, A.A., Castro, J., Cid, A., Jesus, S.M., Matos, F.L. (2024). Influence of Dolphin-Watching Tourism Vessels on the Whistle Emission Pattern of Common Dolphins and Bottlenose Dolphins. Oceans, 5, 770-784. https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5040044 Our open access paper […]

The environmental education program “NauticinBlu”, created by Marevivo with the longstanding support of the MSC Foundation of the MSC Group, arrived in Portugal for the first time on May 2024, organized by AIMM. The Project took place in Almada, […]

Last week, part of the AIMM team went to the 35th annual European Cetacean Society Conference, which took place in Catania, Italy. Our Researcher Alicia Quirin presented her poster “Does exceeding the legally permissible number of […]

Castro, J., Cid, A., Quirin, A., Matos, F. L., Rosa, R., & Pearson, H. C. (2024). Assessing the dynamics of common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mother-calf pairs along the south coast of Portugal using unmanned aerial […]

Planet Wild is a conservation initiative based in Berlin, Germany that supports rewilding projects and reports on them through video documentation. It’s made up of a global community of individuals that want to give back to […]

Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),  are changing the game in cetacean research. Traditionally, cetacean studies are conducted through boat surveys and sometimes land surveys, which has its limitations in terms of coverage and […]

Last summer we started a new project : a marine Pocket Guide! We created a QR code sticker that serves as an educational tool about marine wildlife. The goal is to educate tourists, the general […]