Bedoret Coline

Bedoret Coline

PAR - Research Support Staff

NEMO

Biodiversity, Ecosystems

My academic and professional training includes biology, oceanography and professional diving. I've been passionate about marine environments since my very first dive, when I discovered the diversity of landscapes and species in the oceans. I'm driven by the study and preservation of endangered marine organisms and their ecosystems.

This passion for the oceans led me to join several oceanographic campaigns, including a marine geology campaign with Ghent University, a marine biochemistry campaign with RBINS and a fish acoustic campaign in the North Sea with VLIZ.

My master's thesis explored the isotopic variability of a tropical fish assemblage living in marine meadows of the Great Reef of Toliara (Madagascar).

In March 2024 I joined IMBE's NEMO team to work on the PoMMar project.

 

  • 2024 - Project Engineer - IMBE
  • 2023 - Professional diver - Plongeurs Professionnels Associés srl
  • 2023 - Research associate - Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
  • 2020 - Research associate - Royal Belgian institute of Natural Sciences
  • 2023 - Master in Oceanography - University of Liège
  • 2020 - Bachelor's degree in Biology - Université catholique de Louvain
  • Marine biology
  • Scientific diving
  • Underwater photography
  • Morphological identification
  • Stable isotopes
  • Acoustics of fish and marine mammals

The aim of the PoMMar project is to study ecological assemblages present in Mediterranean harbour environments and their pathways of introduction, with a particular focus on non-indigenous species (NIS).

The specificity of this project relies on its dual approach, both historical with the study of the main shipping routes, and ecological with the study of the main assemblage composition using rapid assessment surveys (RAS) and DNA taxonomy.

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