The 2016 edition of the Portugal fieldcourse was a great success, with a larger group, a new hostel and lots of interesting projects. Some of the highlights included:

– Development of a laser for remote morphological measurement of wildlife

– Plankton biodiversity in relation to pH, salinity and water temperature

– First characterization of common-dolphin vocalization in Peniche

– Testing for antibiotic resistant bacteria in water samples from the Peniche area

– Analysis of plant diversity in the presence of parasitic Orobranche sp.

– Comparison of invertebrate diversity between habitat types in a lacustrine environment