Francoise Cabada-Blanco Portrait

Dr Fran Cabada-Blanco

Programme Lead (Post Graduate Taught)

Francoise.Cabada-Blanco@port.ac.uk

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Biological sciences Environmental Geography and Geosciences

Research interests

I specialized in applying multidisciplinary approaches for the conservation of marine biodiversity, working in the interface between research and practice. Early on in my academic career I focused on vairous systems as models, including coral reefs, coral's microbiota, plankton, seagrasses and rocky shores and used experimental approaches to describe ecological processes and the mechanisms that underpin them.

As I increase my time as practitioner, I became interested in socio-ecological systems and completed a Doctorate in conservation and management of marine resources. My  focus is on rare species,  monitoring techniques to assess their status and that of marine biodiversity more accurately, leveraging technology to improve the way and the pace high-level indicators are infromed and updated.

 

Teaching responsibilities

Postgraduate:

  • Course Lead for teh MSc in Applied Aquatic Biology
  • Coordinator M28934 Science and the Media
  • Coordinator M20154 Aquatic Biology research Project
  • Contributor:
    • Research Skills | Statistics
    • Marine Planning, Policy and Conservation | Prioritisation frameworks for species conservation

Undergraduate

  • Contributor:
    • Experimental Biology | Statistics (L4)
    • Introduction to Marine Ecology and Ocenography | Species Interactions (L4)
    • Marine Organisms and Ecosystems | Plankton, Macroalgae, Coral Reefs (L5)
    • Ecology Skills and Field Course | Biogeography , Modelling Species Interactions (L5)
    • Marine Ecology and Conservation | Megafauna (L6)
    • Marine Ecophysiology | Physiological Responses of Macroalgae (L6)

Research outputs

2025

Obanya, H. E., Couceiro, F., Ford, A. T., Cabada-Blanco, F.

12 Jun 2025, In: Aquatic Toxicology. 286, 10p., 107457

Research output: Article

Mohan, M., Selvam, P. P., Ewane, E. B., Moussa, L. G., Asbridge, E. F., Trevathan-Tackett, S. M., Macreadie, P. I., Watt, M. S., Gillis, L. G., Cabada-Blanco, F., Hendy, I., Broadbent, E. N., Olsson, S. K., Marin-Diaz, B., Burt, J. A.

1 May 2025, In: Science of the Total Environment. 978, 11p., 179393

Research output: Article

Yranzo-Duque, A., Herrera-Reveles, A. T., Villamizar, E., Cabada-Blanco, F., Pérez-Benítez, J., Boadas, H., Rodríguez Quintal, J. G., Pereira, C., Narciso, S., Bustillos, F. A.

7 Feb 2025, In: PLoS One. 20, 2, p. 1-16, 16p., e0317728

Research output: Article

2024

Jain, A., Akshay, V. A., Deepak, V., Das, A., Barnes, P., Tapley, B., Cavada-Blanco, F.

1 May 2024, In: ORYX. 58, 3, p. 300-309, 10p.

Research output: Article

2023

Peralta, A. C., Scott-Frias, J., Carmona-Suarez, C., Rodriguez, C., Perez-Benitez, J., Lopez-Ordaz, A., Marquez-Rojas, B., Lira, C., Gomez-Acevedo, S., Carballo-Barrera, Y., Rodriguez, B., Cavada-Blanco, F., Delgado, J. R., Klein, E.

3 Feb 2023, In: Biodiversity Data Journal. 11, 24p., e98213

Research output: Article

2022

Cavada-Blanco, F., Croquer, A., Vermeij, M., Goergen, L., Rodriguez, R.

22 Dec 2022, In: The Red List of Threatened Species

Research output: Article

Seidu, I., Cabada-Blanco, F., Brobbey, L., Asiedu, B., Barnes, P., Seidu, M., Dulvy, N. K.

1 Sep 2022, In: Marine Policy. 143, 12p., 105159

Research output: Article

Obura, D., Cabada-Blanco, F., Pearce-Kelly, P., Pettersson, E., Polidoro, B.

12 Jul 2022,

Research output: Abstract

2021

Martinez, S., Cabada-Blanco, F., Cappelletto, J., Agudo-Adriani, E.

29 Dec 2021, In: Advances in Oceanography and Limnology. 12, 2, 13p.

Research output: Article

Cabada-Blanco, F., Croquer, A., Yerena, E., Rodriguez, J. P.

13 May 2021, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 67, 102, 15p., 671024

Research output: Article