The fourth TAPIOCA meeting was held in CEERMA-UFPE, Recife on November 26-28. We have been honoured by the presence of Marcelo Leão, Vice-rector and elected-rector – UFRPE; Rita Maia, Responsible of the International Cooperation – UFRP; and Moacyr Araujo, vice-rector UFPE, coordinator-UFPE-IJL TAPIOCA. The current excellent interactions between UFPE and UFRPE authorities are clearly an added value to foster the activities of TAPIOCA.

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The next TAPIOCA’s meeting will be held in Recife on May 5-7, 2020; please save the date. This meeting will be coupled with a TRIATLAS project meeting.

We also have a batch of good news.

IRD funded various proposals for 2020:

– Two-year assignment for Ariane Koch-Larrouy (IRD/LEGOS) in UFPE to work on AMAZOMIX data;

– One year prolongation for Fabrice Hernandez to follow up the implementation of SWOT Brazil;

– Mobilities Brazil-France for Flavia Lucena-Frédou, Thierry Frédou and Xiomara Garcia

– Mobilities France-Brazil for Sophie and Arnaud Bertrand

– ‘Jeune équipe associée’ TABASCO: Seabird ecology in the Brazilian Tropical Atlantic, Co-PIs (G. Tavares, S. Bertrand)

From CAPES-PrInt project we obtained the following fundings:

– Mobilities Brazil-France for Minto Dioune and A. Nathanael Dossa (both PhD students at UFPE) – Mobility France-Brazil for Bastien Merigot (UM/MARBEC)

From the Project Mixcroplastix:

– Mobility for Anne Justino (PhD student at UFRPE)

In addition, A. Koch-Larrouy won a project ‘MIAMAZ’ funded by the CNES/France that is part of the AMAZOMIX survey project. The projects EU H2020 ‘PADDLE’ (PI Marie Bonnin) and CAPES-COFECUB ‘SMAC’ (PIs F. Lucena-Frédou and A. Bertrand) have been positively evaluated at mid-term and will continue for two more years. Finally, the LMI TAPIOCA was also evaluated after the first two years and we anticipate a positive appraisal.

Happy 2020!