
Helena Costa
@helenagcosta
Vet and PhD candidate at @Norduniversitet | @WhaleExhale
Studying the effects of pollutants and infectious disease on the health of whales 🐳🇳🇴
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19-01-2022 17:47:25
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Incredible #Humpback #whale breaching activity on the water today in #CapeVerde with Helena Costa





Great documentary on the @WhaleExhale project led by A/Prof Courtney Waugh and Nord universitet #PhD student Helena Costa, here teaming with Sea World, Gold Coast, Australia experiences and SOPOPP member @ EmersonAldridge to sample #dolphin proxies 7plus.com.au/gold-coast-oce…

📢🌊🔬🦭🐧🐟🦐We offer: 4-year PhD (FPI) contract on the transference of #microplastic pollution in the food webs of the SW Atlantic and Southern Oceans at Marine MegaFauna UB @Irbio Universitat de Barcelona. More info and application➡️ubarcelona-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal… Deadline 22nd September 2023


Excited to share our new #OA paper investigating trends in #contaminants in 11 marine mammal species 🐳🐬☠️ 🔗pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Published in Environmental Science & Technology Journals We show that #chemicalpollution remains a threat to several species in the UK.


@CwallWildlife Defra UK ZSL Science ZSLMarine Update on the #CSIOfTheSea fin whale examination by James Barnett and his CMPT team. Follow up histopathology confirmed it had a viral brain infection, most likely due to morbillivirus. Further tests pending, but is likely to have caused the stranding. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…




Join our #OneHealth seminar tomorrow Nord universitet Steinkjer campus Innocamp Bistro O-121 kl11. We will discuss how to get social scientists and natural scientists to work together 🤨🙋🏻♀️👩🏻🔬 by studying risk perceptions of people living near flying fox roosts in Cambodia





Happy to share my interview with WDA - Wildlife Disease Association Wildlife Health Talks! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2D0hoR…


While I am sad to not join the European Wildlife Disease Association conference in person, I got to do a small presentation of the main results of our project, investigating viruses in whale blow samples 🐳


