Laura Wise

Laura Wise is a researcher at the Portuguese National Institute of Fisheries and Marine Research (INRB/IPIMAR).  She has a degree in Marine Biology and Fisheries at the University of the Algarve and a Master's in Applied Mathematics to the Biological Sciences at the Superior Institute of Agronomy. Currently she is a Complexity Sciences PhD student whose work focuses on fishing fleets dynamics.  

Publications
Thesis:

  • Wise, L. (2008). Mapas Cognitivos Baseados em Regras Difusas: Modelação do Comportamento dos Pescadores de Cerco da Costa Portuguesa. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. 112 p. Master's thesis in Mathematics Applied to Biological Sciences. 
  • Wise, L. (2002). Estudo da Colonização de armadilhas (covis) perdidas no mar. Faculdade de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve. Degree thesis in Marine Biology and Fisheries.
Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees:

  • Wise,L. and Silva, A. and Ferreira, M. and Silva, M. A. and Sequeira, M. Interactions between small cetaceans and the purse-seine fishery in western Portuguese waters. Scientia Marina, 71 (2), 405- 412pp.


Articles in Conferences:


  • Wise, L. and Murta, A. G. and Carvalho, J. P. and Abreu, P. and Fernandes, A. C. and Fernandes, P. and Ferreira, A. L. and Henriques, E. and Silva, D. and Pestana, G. and Tome , J. Cognitive maps from onboard observers as a tool for fishery management. “2009 ICES Annual Science Conference”.
  • Carvalho,J.P. and Wise,L. and Murta,A.G. and Mesquita,M. Is- sues on Dynamic Cognitive Map - Modelling of Purse-seine Fishing Skippers Behavior. “WCCI2008 - 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, June 2008, pp. 1503-1510, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society”.
  • Carvalho, J. P. and Wise, L. and Murta, A. G.. Fuzzy Modeling and Simulation of Purse-seine Fishing Skippers Behavior. “NAFIPS08 - North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society International Conference, May 2008, IEEExplorer”.

Oral communications in Conferences:


  • Wise, L. and Carvalho, S. A. and Murta, A. G. and Carvalho, J. P. Modelling fleet behaviour with rule-based fuzzy cognitive maps. Young Researchers Session at the “ECCS’10 LISBON European Conference on Complex Systems, September 2010”.
  • Wise, L. and Murta, A. G. and Carvalho, J. P. and Abreu, P. and Carvalho, S. A. and Fernandes, A. C. and Fernandes, P. and Ferreira, A. L. and Henriques, E. and Silva, D. Using qualitative information collected onboard trawlers to simulate fishermen’s behaviour. “Fishery Dependent Information Conference - Making the Most of Fisheries Information, Galway-Ireland, August 2010”.
  • Wise, L. and Murta, A. G. and Carvalho, J. P. and Abreu, P. and Fernandes, A. C. and Fernandes, P. and Ferreira, A. L. and Henriques, E. and Silva, D. and Pestana, G. and Tomé , J. Cognitive maps from onboard observers as a tool for fishery management. “2009 ICES Annual Science Conference”.


Posters in conferences:


  • Wise, L. and Mesquita, M. and Carvalho, J. P. and Murta, A. G. (2009). Modelling Fishermen’s Behaviour With Rule-Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. “IO2009 - 14th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Operacional Research”.
  • Wise ,L. and Ferreira, M. and Silva, M. and Sequeira, M. and Silva, A. (2005). Purse seine Fishing of Portugal: Fishing activity and interactions with marine mammals. “European Cetacean Society 19th Annual Conference - Marine Mammals and Food: from Organisms to Ecosystem”.
  • Wise, L. and Malaquias, A. and Lino, P. G. and Gonçalves, J. M. S. and Erzini, K. (2003). Colonisation and biofouling of lost traps in the Algarve (Southern Portugal). “38th European Marine Biology Symposium”.   

Papers in Portuguese national periodicals:


  • Wise, L. and Ferreira, M. and Silva, A. (2005). Caracterização da pesca de cerco na costa oeste Portuguesa. Relatorio Cientifico e Tecnico, IPIMAR, Serie Digital, n 24, 19p.
  • Wise, L. and Ferreira, M. and Silva, M. A. and Sequeira, M. and Silva, A. (2005). Estudo das interaccoes entre mamiferos marinhos e a pesca de cerco na costa oeste portuguesa. Relatorio Cientifico e Tecnico, IPIMAR, Serie Digital, n 26, 27p.


Participation in Research Projects:
February 2009 - onwards: FLEETMOD - “Modelling and simulation of the behaviour of fishing fleets ”.
August - September 2004: SARDYN - “Sardine dynamics and stock structure in the north-east Atlantic”. 

January - December 2000: FANTARED II - “A Study to Identify, Quantify and Ameliorate the Impacts of Static Gear Lost at Sea”.