CephsInAction@Cascais – Venue
CephsInAction MC & WGs meetings, Cascais 2015 – Venue & Local Organizer
CephsInAction will meet in Cascais, Lisbon District, Portugal; located 30 kilometers west of Lisbon, Cascais is a suburb of the Portuguese capital, a former fishing village that became a resort for the Portuguese Royal Family in the late XIX century.
The 2015 has been characterized by a series of small meetings that allow focalized discussion within individual FA1301-WGs with the contribution of FA1301 members belonging to other WGs.
Reservations at the Hotel should be arranged individually using the promotion code sent to registered participants via email. For further info contact either the Hotel or email to cephres@cephalopodresearch.org.
Instructions – How to Reach Us
The venue Hotel Baía Cascais (Av. Marginal 2754-509, Cascais) is at only 200m from Cascais Station. The nearest airport is Lisbon.
How to Reach Us – by Train
From the Airport take Metro Red Line towards São Sebastião, 9 stops (Encarnação, Moscavide, Oriente, Cabo Ruivo, Olivais, Chelas, Bela Vista, Olaias, Alameda);
From Alameda take Metro Green Line towards Cais do Sodré, 7 stops (Arroios, Anjos, Intendente, Martim Moniz, Rossio, Baixa / Chiado, Cais do Sodré
See also Metro Website http://metro.transporteslisboa.pt/eng/
From the Cais do Sodre Station get the train towards Cascais, 16 stops (Santos, Alcantara-Mar, Belem, Alges, Cruz Quebrada, Caxias, Paco de Arcos, Santo Amaro, Oeiras, Carcavelos, Parede, Sao Pedro do Estoril, Sao Joao do Estoril, Estoril, Monte Estoril, Cascais).
See Train Timetable http://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/train-times
As alternative option from Lisbon airport take the AEROBUS to reach Cais do Sodré
The Aerobus service provides regular daily links between the main points of the city, the Parque das Nações, the Sete Rios and Oriente bus terminals, and the Entrecampos, Cais do Sodre and Oriente rail terminals.
Airport – Cais do Sodré 07h00 – 23:20 (working days), 07h00 – 22h50 (weekends and public holidays)
Cais do Sodré – Airport 07h40 – 23h00 (working days), 07h45 – 23h10 (weekends and public holidays)
Daily departures every 20 minutes (working days) and departures every 25 minutes (weekends and public holidays
Adults: €3.15 – Children (aged 4 -10): €2.00
Tickets can be purchased on board or at the Lisbon Tourism counters at Airport Arrivals, public area.
Aerobus tickets are valid for 24 hours service and on the day they are punched they are valid on any Carris coach.
See also www.yellowbustours.com
How to Reach Us – Personal Transfers
For people that requested through the form “Annual Meeting FA1301@Cascais Planning for Logistical Arrangements” a transfer will be organized. People should share the transfer to divide costs. Transfers will be organized by the Local Organizerand should be paid directly at the driver. You have been contacted by CephRes for further detail.
Local Organizer
João Pereira completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Cape Town in 1988 and started working at the Portuguese Fisheries Research Institute from that same year until the present time. Having worked in cephalopod biology, ecology and fisheries since the start, he completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. while working. Recently, apart from cephalopod fisheries research and management advice, he is also responsible for the Portuguese hake assessment and for setting up the South Western waters regional discard plan. He is presently involved a number of research projects and also supervises students. JP has authored and co-authored about 50 indexed papers and peer-reviewed book chapters on a variety of topics in fisheries research.
The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) is a Public Research Institution devoted to Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Technology, established in 2012, with the merge of the Institute of Meteorology (IM), the Institute for Fisheries and Marine Research (IPIMAR) and the Marine Geology Unit of the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology. IPMA’s mission is the provision of technical and scientific support for the definition of national policy, operating and maintaining scientific infrastructures, data acquisition and processing, maintenance of national scientific databases on its areas of competence, and promotion and coordination of scientific research and technological development in its areas of expertise.
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