LaB Laboratory of Bioacoustics
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Brazil
Post-Docs
Luane M. S. Ferreira
B.Sc., Ed. S., M.S., Ph.D.
Bachelor and Education Specialist in Biology and Master in Psychobiology from UFRN. Currently a Ph.D. student in the Psychobiology Graduate Program working on animal behavior and bioacoustics. Has experience in wild canids' behavior and in automated signal detectors. Her Ph.D. research focused on social interactions and reproductive behavior of maned wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus) in the wild using individual and sexual discrimination cues in their vocalizations and location of acoustic events using an array of microphones. Currently she works with behavioral ecology of cetaceans, focusing on their occurrence in remote marine areas and their acoustic behavior.
Martín Boullhesen
B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D.
Currently studying the anuran acoustic phenology in the Yungas forests NW Argentina and application of acoustic indices as proxies of biodiversity. He is working at the Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA) located in the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy and CONICET, Argentina. His research currently focuses on understanding and quantifying the impacts that human-induced wildfires may have over acoustic communities. Mainly over the anuran taxa at the Parque Nacional Calilegua, Jujuy province, Argentinas.
Manuela Bassoi
B.Sc., Ph.D.
Bachelor in Oceanography in 1998 (Brazil). 2005 PhD in the National Oceanography Center (UK). From 2006 to 2011 Project Manager (Census of Antarctic Marine Life) and Post-Doc (cetacean distribution in Antarctica.). 2012 studied Nautical Sciences (ice navigation). Scientific coordinator onboard the Brazilian Polar Vessel in Antarctica; joining the EGBAMM/SCAR and the LaB in 2018. Participant of the South Georgia/BAS project. Fellow associate researcher at UFRN in the Project Quakes & Whales (DTI) affiliated to the Psychobiology Graduate Program at UFRN. Vice-Coordinator of the UFRN Project "Sentinelas da Amazônia Azul" (Sentinels of the Blue Amazon). Currently affiliated to FURG as a post-doc for the INCT Biodiversidade da Amazônia Azul.
Gustavo A. C. Toledo
B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D.
Bachelor in Biological Sciences (2006), Masters in Development and the Environment (2009) and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (2013) at the Federal University of Paraíba, with a period as intern at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute, U.S.A.) and was a postdoctoral fellow (PNPD/CAPES) at the LaB (2016-2019) affiliated to the Psychobiology Graduate Program at UFRN focusing on behavioral ecology of marine mammals, their population dynamics, behavior and morphology. Currently works as an environmental consultant in continental and marine areas in Brazil.
