João G. Monteiro is an associate researcher at the University of Madeira and MARE-Madeira, and Co-Head of MARE-Madeira’s Climate Change & Human Pressures team. His expertise spans ecology, experimental design, community assessments, habitat mapping and on the use and development of innovative solutions to survey and monitor the marine environemnt. Over the last years João has coordinated research and projects to advance marine litter monitoring and mapping using drones, ROVs, remote sensing, imagery analysis and AI