Monday, 08 March 2021 10:33
David Bueno, doctor of biology and professor and researcher at University of Barcelona, will lead a discussion entitled “Learning from change and uncertainty: a neuroeducational perspective”. Broadcast on the Consell de Formentera Facebook page, the talk is part of the “Talks for families” series hosted by the Formentera Department of Social Welfare. Bueno will trace how the brain adapts to changes in uncertain times and give tips on managing these changes from an educational perspective.
8 March 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera
The local offices of inspection and land have ordered crews to cease installation of a sluice gate on the canal connecting Estany Pudent to the nearby sea. The individuals executing the work had failed to notify local departments of environment, heritage and land.
The Formentera offices of tourism and environment report that architects of an effort to study the direct impact of drainage pipes, watercraft and human activity on posidonia meadows in the Anthropocene will share their findings in a 6.30pm YouTube presentation on Wednesday 10 March. Researchers in the Imedea-backed “Antroposi” project walked away with €83,822 in funding after beating out the competition in the inaugural edition of the Consell de Formentera’s Save Posidonia Project. For more than a year, researchers looked at various segments of Formentera’s surrounding seafloor in a bid to deepen understanding of how the more high impact human activities like sewage discharge and boats dropping anchors and navigating above meadows of Posidonia oceanica seagrass. Imedea researcher Iris Hendricks will lead the presentation.