A group of BIOMA Institute researchers present their projects in its II Annual meeting
The connectivity of our rivers, the welfare and conservation of fauna and the importance of data in experimental sciences were some of the main topics of this event. workshop
09 | 01 | 2025
PhD students and researchers from the groups of Chemistry and Agricultural Biology (BACh), Biodiversity Data Analytics and Environmental Quality (BEQ), Plant Stress Physiology (FEP) and EnvironmentalHumanities (HUMAM) of the BIOMA Institute of the University of Navarra met last Tuesday, December 17 to share the news of the projects they are working on as well as to promote partnership and cooperation in their research.
On this occasion, the BEQ and HUMAM groups gave the sessions of the workshop. Among the various programs of study presentations we could listen to the PhD student Lide de Izeta, whose work studies the connectivity in the rivers of Spain for the project ConnectFish. In this same project, Ana Sanchez, shared her study based on the social perception of dams, their impacts and ecosystem services.
Other PhD students such as Andrea Marín, Maite Telletxea and Guillermo Valeiras told us about their projects of thesis : the reproductive preferences of the European mink at partnership with the Foundation for the research in Ethology and Biodiversity (FIEB); the mobilization of data on biodiversity belonging to environmental assessments in Spain for an efficient management of the data and resources of the research projects; and the study of the factors that threaten threatened carnivorous mammals and their conservation.
In addition to the doctoral students, researchers Enrique Baquero, Ana Villarroya, Ricardo Ibáñez, Rafael Miranda, Jordi Puig and Arturo Ariño also participated, as well as Ana Amezcua, Ángel Chaves and María Imas, technicians from the Science Museum of the University of Navarra. These sessions addressed various topics such as programs of study on the social perception of animal welfare and animal rights in Spain or the dynamics of plant communities in Navarra.
The researcher David Galicia emphasized among the attendees the importance of the analysis and treatment of data for the research, as well as to have Final Projects Master's Degree (from the Master's Degree in Science of data for Experimental Sciences offered by the School of Sciences of the academic center) in the different projects.
