IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA) is a Public Research Institution devoted to Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Technology. This State Laboratory has the mission of providing technical and scientific support to national policy definition, operating and maintaining state-owned scientific infrastructures, acquiring data, processing and maintaining the national scientific databases on its areas of competence, and of promoting and coordinating scientific research and technological development. It operates the Portuguese meteorological, climate and seismological networks. IPMA also possesses a strong cluster of competences on Resource and Fisheries related research: stock management, production methods, biology, ecology, water and sediment contaminants, geochemistry, toxicology, and most of the scientific fields related to the marine environment and biodiversity management and control. IPMA is owner of the most important repository of marine biodiversity data of Portugal.