I studied oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Completed in 2018 with the project Spatial overlap between fisheries and cetaceans in southeastern Brazilian waters. Currently I work as a researcher, Marine Mammal Observer (MMO), photographer and drone pilot for different research projects and organizations.

 

I started conducting my career in 2015, when I worked for 7 months as an intern researcher for the Spinner Dolphin Project, in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. During this experience I had my first contact with cetacean research and nature documentaries, being part of the support team for the documentary "Atlantic, the Wildest Ocean on Earth, from BBC.

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Since 2017 I am collaborating with the Cetaceans Monitoring Project in the Santos Basin, developing studies and working on regular aerial and maritime expeditions to monitor dolphins and whales in Brazilian waters. In 2019, I integrated the maritime team to monitor a population of guiana dolphins in an estuarine area affected by a dam disaster, working for the Public Prosecutors' Office of Brazil. Still in 2019, I integrated the aerial team to estimate humpback whales distribution and abundance in Brazil for the first time, working for the Baleia Jubarte Institute (IBJ). I performed this work again in 2022. Still in 2022, I collaborated as a project writer for a sailing expedition that have become a documentary called "Ínsula", working for Mysticeta Research. In 2023, also working for Mysticeta Research, I conducted drone footages for a documentary about the Right Whales in the south of Brazil.

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My duties on these expeditions includes drone piloting, programming and operating transmitters, operating conductivity, temperature and density (CTD) devices, collecting and processing biopsies, boat piloting and taking photos for catalogues of cetaceans. Among my achievements is having filmed 17 different species of cetacean by drone - including blue, fin and sei whales, sperm whale, killer whale and pilot whale; and having some of these footages published in television programs such as "Jornal Nacional" and "Fantástico", from Globo station, Brazil. I have spent 460 days onboard researching cetaceans, and 54.5 hours flying.

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My main objective here is to collaborate with the conservation of our oceans and the life it houses, both by producing scientific material and visual arts, which I believe has a great power to raise environmental awareness. 

 

For collaborations and sharing ocean and marine mammals infos, waves and good moments -  get in touch.

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