Associated Laboratory since 2005, CESAM includes around 500 researchers, 190 of whom with a PhD degree, and five departments of the University of Aveiro: Environment and Planning, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences; it also includes members from the Faculty of Sciences, of the University of Lisbon.
CESAM's mission is to develop fundamental research in the Coastal and Marine Environment, understood in an integrated manner involving the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and anthroposphere.
