Team
Francesca Barazzetta
Project researcher
francesca.barazzetta(at)uvigo.es
Francesca Barazzetta joined the Future Ocean Lab team in March 2020 as Project researcher to work on the MPA Engage: engaging Mediterranean key players in an ecosystem approach to managing Marine Protected Areas to face climate change.
Francesca holds a bachelor degree in Natural Science from the University of Milan and a Master in Climate Change from the University of Copenhagen. Combining her fascination for the marine ecosystem and her studies in climate change, Francesca collaborated with FOL at the University of Vigo during her Master thesis studying small scale fisheries livelihood and their adaptive capacity by the effect of climate change.
In her previous experience as a project assistant at the company World Climate Limited, she developed a particular interest in stakeholder engagement in relation to climate change communication and awareness. Over her stay at FOL working at the MPA Engage project, Francesca will have the opportunity to combine all her interests as she will be focusing on implementing a guideline for socio-ecological vulnerability assessments for seven MPAs settled in the Mediterranean sea. Francesca will also be engaging with local stakeholders as she will be supporting training activities on the field.
Selected Publications
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FOL participated in the Fourth ICES PICES Early Career Scientist Conference
FOL members Xochitl Elías and Francesca Barazzetta presented their work on climate change vulnerability and adaptations of coastal social-ecological systems to climate change
27/07/2022 – The fourth ICES PICES ECS conference was held last 18th – 21st July 2022 in St. John’s, Canada and aimed at improving the involvement of young scientists in international scientific investigations, management, and stewardship of the marine environment, in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the North Pacific Marine Science […]
Future Oceans Lab brings research results on fisheries adaptation to Galician fisherguilds
Our team presents ERC-CLOCK project results along 8 Galician fishing communities and Fisheries Federation
11/07/2022 – Over the last months, as the final stage of the CLimate adaptation to shifting stOCKS (CLOCK) project, the Future Oceans Lab has been presenting the results on the Galician case study in eight collaborating fishers’ guilds all over the Galician territory and the Federation of Galician fishers’ guilds in Ames. Diego Salgueiro Otero and Francesca […]
Fisheries contribution to a more sustainable future
FOL participated in the kick-off meeting of the of the new Future Fisheries project from the University of Bergen
07/04/2022 – Our research fellow, Francesca Barazzetta, and PhD student, Xochitl Édua Elias Ilosvay traveled to Bergen last March to take part at the kick-off meeting of the new four-year-long Future Fisheries project lead by the Theoretical Ecology Group from the University of Bergen. The project in funded by the Research Council of Norway, as a Collaborative […]
Assessing climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean MPAs”, a second MPA-ENGAGE webinar series
FRANCESCA BARAZZETTA AND JUAN BUENO PARDO PRESENTED HOW TO ASSESS CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY IN MEDITERRANEAN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
30/03/2022 – Last week, on the 24th and 25th of March, Francesca Barazzetta and Juan Bueno Pardo hosted a follow up to the first webinar series organized in the framework of the MPA-Engage project. The two webinars focused on the development and implementation Social-Ecological Vulnerability Assessment in Marine Protected Area focusing in the Mediterranean Sea. The two […]
New webinar series of MPA-Engage project
Learning how to face climate change in Marine protected areas
15/03/2022 – MPA-ENGAGE consortia is announcing the second series of webinars to help stakeholders of MPAs to develop a climate change adaptation and mitigation action plan. Participants will learn on how to track climate change impacts in MPAs, assess their ecological and socio-economic vulnerability and engage local communities in participatory actions. These webinar series are carried out within […]
MPA-Engage: Final Vulnerability Assessments results for Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
APPLYING VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS TO IMPLEMENT CLIMATE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN MPAs
30/07/2021 – On April 22, Francesca Barazzetta, Elena Ojea, Smit Caballero and Juan Bueno Pardo presented to the managers of seven Mediterranean marine protected areas the methodology applied to calculate the final results for the Climate Vulnerability Assessment implemented in these areas within the framework of MPA-Engage project. The results focus on the MPAs socio-ecological and ecological, […]
MPA Engage project organises its First capitalization conference
Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change
18/06/2021 – The MPA EngageMED project, funded under the Interred Med Programme, is organising its first capitalisation conference tomorrow. The meeting (entirely on-line) will represent an occasion to showcasing the MPA Engage collective response to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas. The involvement of local communities, socio-economic operators and managers of Marine […]
MPA Engage Capitalization Event
Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change
04/06/2021 – Members of the MPA Engage Capitalisation Boards is organising the first MPA Engage Capitalisation event entitled “Mediterranean MPAs join forces to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change“. The event will take place online on the 18th June 2021, 11.30-14.00 CET. The event aims to: Showcase the MPA Engage collective response to mitigate and adapt to Climate […]
A year of lonely remote working with a warm team
More than ever, this year we faced big ups and downs at home and with our work
24/12/2020 – This is a difficult year to balance and we are happy we made it through. We are really looking forward to experience nature, friends and in person relationships in 2021, experiences we missed so much this year. As for everybody, 2020 has been a challenging year to keep up with research, but we were still […]
Presenting MPA Engage activities in a capacity building event in Montenegro
Our approach to climate vulnerability assessments can help in the design of new protected areas in the Adriatic
03/12/2020 – Montenegro is currently planning the implementation of new marine protected areas in the Adriatic, and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism has organized a capacity building event where partners from different EU projects presented. As part of the team of the MPA Engage project, Elena briefly introduced the work developed by the Future Oceans […]
“Mediterranean MPAs facing Climate Change” a second MPA-ENGAGE training
Francesca Barazzetta travelled to Sardinia for a second training with Mediterranean MPAs on Vulnerability Assessment
13/08/2020 – On the last week of July, from the 27th to the 30th, Francesca Barazzetta travelled to Sardinia, (Italy), to join the rest of the MPA-Engage team to provide a second training on the Vulnerability Assessment to some of the MPAs involved in the project. The meeting hosted by the MPA of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo […]
“Mediterranean MPAs facing Climate Change” a first MPA-ENGAGE webinar series
Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta presented how to assess climate change vulnerability in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
05/06/2020 – Last week, from the 25th to the 29th of May, Elena Ojea and Francesca Barazzetta hosted 3 on-line lectures about the development of a Social-Ecological Vulnerability Assessment in Marine Protected Areas. The lectures were organised within the framework of the MPA-Engage project and the Vulnerability Assessment lectures represented a section of a three weeks webinar […]
First series of webinars within MPA-Engage project start next week
The goal of these webinars series is to learn how to face climate change in Marine Protected Areas
13/05/2020 – MPA-ENGAGE consortia is announcing a series of webinars to help stakeholders of MPAs to develop a climate change adaptation and mitigation action plan. Participants will be trained on how to track climate change impacts in MPAs, assess their ecological and socio-economic vulnerability and engage local communities in participatory actions. These webinar series are carried out […]
FOL welcomes Francesca to the team; more women in the climate vulnerability research
Francesca joins FOL to work on the MPA-Engage project
05/03/2020 – After a competitive selection process for the position as Project researcher on the MPA Engage project, Francesca Barazzetta has succeeded and has joined the Future Ocean Lab team this March 2020. Francesca has successfully completed her Master in Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen. She conducted her master thesis in collaboration with FOL, during […]