Marine Pollution Modeler · CMCC · Lecce, Italy

Santiago Bravo

Oceanographer whose academic and professional background bridges multiple areas of ocean science, including hydrodynamic modeling, geospatial analysis, environmental monitoring, and bioacoustics. Develops and applies numerical models to simulate pollutant dispersion and its different hazards at the CMCC Foundation–Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.

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Career

Professional Experience

Present
Marine Pollution Modeler
2024 — Present
CMCC — Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici · Lecce, Italy
Developing and applying numerical models for oil spill dispersion, coastal vulnerability assessment, and water quality. Contributing to Digital Twin integrations connecting WITOIL and SURF platforms within the EDITO infrastructure.
2024
Environmental Party Chief
June 2024
Offshore Environmental Survey — Semi-submersible drilling rig Alpha-Star
Seabed characterization through ROV imaging operations.
Environmental Party Chief
May 2024
Offshore Environmental Survey — Maersk Maker
Seabed characterization through ROV imaging onboard Maersk Maker.
2020 – 2023
Environmental Analyst
2020 — 2023
Prooceano | CLS Brasil — Collecte Localisation Satellites · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Environmental characterization and monitoring, seabed imaging, oil spill vulnerability analysis, and R&D projects. 24/7 emergency team for oil spill response and search & rescue — oil dispersion modeling, drift transport monitoring, SAR modeling. Field equipment: CTD, USBL, Dropcam, Niskin/Go-Flo samplers, Van Veen/Box corer, plankton nets, portable sensors.
Research Positions
Research Technician
2019
The Juanes Lab — University of Victoria, Canada
Systematized review of subtropical fish species and acoustic characteristics. Reef complexity analysis in the Caribbean using fish biodiversity as a proxy. Origin of the FishSounds project.
Researcher — Coastal Dynamics
2018 – 2020
Coastal Dynamics Laboratory — University of São Paulo, Brazil
Coastal vulnerability assessment at Massaguaçú Beach (B.Sc. thesis). GIS software, Delft 3D wave modeling, and coastal vulnerability indices.
Researcher — Marine Biodiversity & Policy
2016 – 2019
Management, Ecology and Marine Conservation Lab — University of São Paulo, Brazil
Public Policy Group: fisheries management assessments, EIA technical reviews, co-production of Marine Conservation Area management plans, GIS georeferencing and vectorization.
Researcher — Oil Spills & Fisheries
2019
National Center for Research and Conservation of Northeast Marine Biodiversity & Institute of Coastal Reefs · Brazil
Research on oil spill impacts on fisheries and reef ecosystems. Fishing monitoring programs.
Education
M.Sc. Oceanography
2022 – 2024
Federal University of Pernambuco · Recife, Brazil
Thesis: "Coastal processes and oil distribution pattern in beach-estuary-reef ecosystems: south coast of Pernambuco" — Grade A
B.Sc. Oceanography
2014 – 2020
University of São Paulo · São Paulo, Brazil
Thesis: "Assessment of coastal vulnerability to erosion at Massaguaçú Beach, São Paulo" — GPA 8.1
Research

Publications & Outputs

2026
Chapada do Araripe Deforestation Monitor (v1.0.0)
Zenodo · Software · Sentinel-2 / Landsat anomaly detection over the Cerrado–Caatinga transition zone
Software DOI →
2026
Calcareous nannofossils and paleoceanographic, paleoecological, and biostratigraphic insights into the Aptian/Albian of the Araripe Basin, central Gondwana
Journal of South American Earth Sciences · May 2026
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2026
Coupled Near- and Far-field Modeling Suite for Produced Water Discharges from Offshore Oil Platforms: Integrating TAMOC and OpenDrift's ChemicalDrift
EGU General Assembly 2026 · Preprint
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2026
Embedding Marine Macro Litter Observations into the Lagrangian Particle Tracking Model
EGU General Assembly 2026 · Preprint
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2026
SIM MASE: An Integrated Satellite Monitoring and Early Warning System for Oil Spill and Produced Water Management in Italian Seas
EGU General Assembly 2026 · Preprint
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2025
Enhanced Coastal Oil Spill Risk Assessment through Digital Twin Integration: Connecting WITOIL and SURF in EDITO
AGU 2025
Conference
2025
FishSounds Versions 2 and 3: Achieving the Largest Global Database of Fish Sound Production
Global Ecology and Biogeography · November 2025
Journal DOI →
2025
Operational Oil Spill Monitoring and Forecasting in the Kerch Strait Accident in December 2024
EGU General Assembly 2025 · Preprint
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2025
WITOIL Service in the Context of Digital Twins: Bridging Oil Spill Simulations from Medslik-II into Digital Cloud Domains
EGU General Assembly 2025 · Preprint
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2024
Fish Sound Production Research: Historical Practices and Ongoing Challenges
Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life — Springer, Cham
Book Chapter DOI →
2024
FishSounds Version 1.1: Data Archive, User Experience, and Online Resources
Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life — Springer, Cham
Book Chapter DOI →
2024
World Register of Marine Species Underwater Sonifery Data Repository
Borealis Dataset
Dataset DOI →
2024
Seabed Imaging Protocol for Standardizing Quali-Quantitative Georeferenced Data Generation
Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference 2024 · IBP
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2024
Padrão de Distribuição do Óleo via Modelagem Numérica nos Ecossistemas Praia-Estuário-Recife: Litoral Sul de Pernambuco/PE
M.Sc. Dissertation — Federal University of Pernambuco
Thesis
2023
FishSounds Version 1.0: A Website for the Compilation of Fish Sound Production Information and Recordings
Ecological Informatics · 2023
Journal DOI →
2023
Global Inventory of Species Categorized by Known Underwater Sonifery
Scientific Data · 2023
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2023
The Importance of Context in the Acoustic Behaviors of Marine, Subtropical Fish Species
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023
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2023
FishSounds: A Data-Sharing Website of Global Soniferous Fish Diversity
Acoustics 2023 Sydney · Conference Poster
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2022
A Quantitative Inventory of Global Soniferous Fish Diversity
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries · 2022
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2022
Definition of the Sampling Grid to Achieve Different Objectives in an Environmental Characterization Project (Case Study — Block C-M-541 — Campos Basin)
Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference 2022 · IBP
Conference DOI →
2020
Avaliação da Vulnerabilidade Costeira na Praia de Massaguaçú, São Paulo
B.Sc. Thesis — University of São Paulo
Thesis
Background

Languages, Training & Awards

Languages
Portuguese
Native
Spanish
Native
English
C2 Proficient
Italian
B1/A1 Learning
Additional Training
PAM Operator · Biosonar 2023 CBSP / HUET Oil Platform Safety 2023 PowerBI · Data Bloom 2023 Mapping by Drones · G Drones 2021 EIVA Software Integration 2021 DIY Geo Apps · ESRI 2020 Cartography · ESRI 2019 Multibeam Hydrographic Surveys · PGGM 2018 Cetacean Acoustics · IOUSP 2016
Awards
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship · Canada 2019 National Society of High School Scholars 2012