I’ve been working with seabirds since 1998 when I began at the Oceanographic Museum Prof. Eliezer de Carvalho Rios. Here I worked on the rehabilitation of marine animals, mainly oiled penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). I completed my BSc in Oceanography at Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG- Brazil) in 2003 and my MSc in Aquaculture at the same Institution in 2006. My BSc thesis was on the ecology of Neotropic cormorants and their relationship with the fishery industry in southern Brazil. My Masters thesis was on seabird parasites and included laboratory reproduction of the parasite’s life cycle.

I’ve been awarded a Brazilian government scholarship Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) to do my PhD at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology's Centre of Excellence, supervised by Prof. Peter Ryan. I will be working mainly on threatened seabirds, using stable isotope analysis of their feathers and toenails to infer what the birds eat and where they feed during their non-breeding period.

Thesis

Using stable isotopes as a tool to understand the trophic relationships of seabirds off southern Africa (Supervisors: Peter Ryan and Ross Wanless).

Publications

2009

Colabuono, F.I., Barquete, V., Domingues, B.S., Montone, R.C. 2009. Plastic ingestion by Procellariiformes in Southern Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58(1):93-96.

2008

Barquete, V., Vooren, C.M. & Bugoni, L. 2008. Seasonal abundance of the Neotropic cormorant
(Phalacrocorax brasilianus) at Lagoa dos Patos estuary, Southern Brazil. Hornero 23 (1): 15-22

Barquete V.; Bugoni, L.; Vooren, C.M. 2008. Diet of Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in an estuarine environment. Marine Biology 153: 431-443.

2006

Barquete, V.; Bugoni, L.; Silva-Filho, R.P. & Adornes, A.C. 2006. Review and new records of King and Rockhopper Penguins in Brazil. El Hornero 21: 45-48.

2003

Bugoni, L.; Neves, T.S.; Adornes, A.C.; Olmos, F. & Barquete, V. (2003). Northern giant petrel Macronectes halli in Brazil. Atlantic Seabirds 5: 127-129.