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OUR HISTORY

Nereide is a non-profit association created for the development of conservation, environmental education and sustainability projects.

It was founded in Tarifa at the end of 2018 thanks to the union of a group of people with a common ideology and values and its aim is to foster a closer relationship between people, the natural environment and animals, promoting sustainable practices for the care of nature.

We carry out environmental education, circular economy and research projects and organize creative and sustainable events in which we seek the participation of the local community.

We conduct educational workshops on marine pollution and respect for animals in schools and institutes and organize art exhibitions to raise awareness about marine pollution. In addition, we encourage and support venues and restaurants to eliminate single-use plastic from their businesses.

Our line of research focuses on the conservation of marine fauna, especially cetaceans. We manage scientific research projects in collaboration with universities, such as cetacean monitoring from opportunistic platforms and from land. We participate in national and international congresses such as the Spanish Cetacean Society (SEC), European Cetacean Society (ECS) or World Marine Mammal Conference (WMMC).

WHERE ARE WE?

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Nereide is based in Tarifa, a coastal town located at the southernmost point of continental Europe, in the province of Cadiz, Andalusia.

Tarifa is located in the Strait of Gibraltar, a unique enclave where the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet, and is also the point of separation of two continents: Africa and Europe.

It is home to a great biodiversity, including 7 species of cetaceans and numerous birds that cross it every year during their migrations to and from Africa.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Making our planet a better place for all living beings that inhabit it is a current duty of our society.

Only through education, science and communication can we create awareness and thus strengthen the link between people and the natural environment, which we have been losing over the centuries.

The team

Discover the team behind Nereide association and the people who collaborate with us.

EVA CARPINELLI ROCK

President and coordinator of projects and events

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Cristina Otero Sabio

Secretary, communications, web design and research

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Mateo León

Treasurer and strategy consultant

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Sara Lacalle Moreno

Environmental education

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Paola Fabricios

NPMF Project Manager

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Alessia Scuderi

Research and ferris project manager

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Ana Gámez

Research, environmental education

Nerea Tiberti

Our little activist

María León

Communication strategies, stranded wildlife project

David Lepez

Always there to lend a helping hand!

Vanessa

Beach cleanups, fundraising

Roberto Almendral

Web design and development

Mireia Villafáfila

Social media and volunteer support for ferris project

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Eva Chiara Carpinelli Rock

EVA CHIARA CARPINELLI ROCK

President, project and event coordination

Founder and president of Nereide. She has a degree in Nature Sciences and a Master’s degree in Fauna Conservation from the University of Pavia (Italy).

She is from Milan and came to Tarifa in 2009 to do his master’s thesis on the study of sperm whale movements in the Strait of Gibraltar. She fell in love with these places and decided to stay and continue her life here. Since 2013 she is the mother of a fantastic little girl, a little mermaid fighter for the rights of the Planet. She loves travelling and getting to know other cultures, and has always been connected to the sea and its inhabitants.< She has worked on numerous projects focused on the conservation of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea and in recent years has been involved in the organisation of environmental education workshops in schools.

Since 2015 she has been managing El Cachalote Project, an artisany project connected to the sea, especially whales and dolphins. She decided to create the association Nereide in order to share her love and respect for the environment and animals and to pass it on to children and adults.

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Cristina Otero Sabio

Cristina Otero Sabio, PhD

Secretary, web design, communications, research

From Granada, traveller and passionate about the sea and cetaceans from a very young age. She graduated in biology from the University of Granada in 2014 and that same year he started working as a whale watching guide in Tarifa for several seasons. During this period she carried out photo-identification studies of the orca population in the Strait of Gibraltar. Her motivation and enthusiasm to continue learning led her to continue her studies in the field of marine biology. She completed an international master’s degree in marine biodiversity and conservation (2016-2018) and later completed a PhD thesis on the effects of PFAS compounds on marine mammal cells at the University of Padova, Italy (2018-2022).

In addition to science, she is also a professional artist. Her works include watercolours, with a marine and activist touch. She has also been doing artistic and nature photography for more than a decade.

Cristina has been present in Nereide since its foundation even from afar, taking care of communications, web design, graphic design and writing research projects. She currently lives between Granada and Tarifa, combining her work as an artist and researcher.

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Mateo Leon

Mateo León

Treasurer and strategy consultant

He was born in Tarifa and graduated in Biology from the University of Cordoba in 2007. He has lived in Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, where he studied a master’s degree in “Science and Innovation Management”. He returned to Tarifa in 2014 and his main activity is strategic consultancy under the name Knowmad Consulting. Among other things, he advises associations, processes their documentation for their creation and manages grants for them. He is currently working as BDM I+D at the Funditec Technology Centre in Madrid.

He helped the Nereide association with its creation and today he is the treasurer and also advises its board in every possible way.

Sara Lacalle Moreno

Environmental education, project Edunatura

From Madrid, adopted by Extremadura and Cádiz. Raised in the natural landscapes of Montfragüe and the Natural Park of the Strait of Gibraltar, which has awakened her interest and passion for the natural elements, animals and sporting activities that allow her to enjoy the connection with them from a very early age. She graduated as an early childhood education teacher in 2014 and the following year she completed a Master’s Degree which qualified her as a Technical Teacher of Intermediate and Higher Level Training Cycles. She currently works as a social educator in schools and institutes in the area.

Her interest in nature, her vocation for education and her awareness of the crisis of values that prevails among our young people led her to unite her two passions to give shape, together with Nereide, to the EduNatura project.

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Paola Fabricio

No Plastic Mor Fun Project Manager

Originally from Naples but lived in Milan for a long time. Since she was a child she always had a strong attraction for biology, science and nature, which is why she graduated in Natural Sciences. She worked for several years as a biologist in the Italian region of Lombardy on a project for the protection of local plants.

She arrived in Tarifa in 2017 to join his brothers and start a new adventure with them: opening a restaurant. She started to transfer her knowledge to her new job, declaring war on throwaway plastic and all environmentally unfriendly practices. Missing her job as a biologist, she started to organise environmental conservation projects together with her friend Eva and this is how she started collaborating with Nereide. The idea is to make as many people as possible aware of the issue of protecting and respecting the environment through events and workshops, involving the local population in concrete initiatives such as promoting the abandonment of single-use plastic among Tarifa’s businesses.

He mantra is: “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, take action!”

Alessia Scuderi

Research, ferris project manager

She comes from Reggio Calabria, Italy, and has been living in Tarifa for a few years. She graduated in marine biology doing a research on the identification of feeding areas of fin whales in the Ligurian Sea. She continued her master’s studies at the University of Barcelona, where she conducted a study on the diet of the monk seal. Alessia’s dream is that human animals and cetaceans in the Strait of Gibraltar can share the sea in harmony. For the same reason she is doing a PhD on the integrated management of marine areas characterised by the presence of marine mammals in co-supervision by the University of Cadiz (Spain) and the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Thanks to her PhD project she has been able to collaborate with the universities of Gibraltar, Victoria (Canada) and Auckland (New Zealand). She has also collaborated for more than a decade with Tethys Research Institute (Italy). Alessia has been a promoter of the ferry project, has worked as an environmental specialist, marine biologist, MMO and PAM operator and also as a guide on board whale watching boats in the Strait of Gibraltar. Her enthusiasm for the sea and animals has led her to participate in the Nereide association initiative, of which she is a founding member.

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Eva Chiara Carpinelli Rock

EVA CHIARA CARPINELLI ROCK

President, project and event coordination

Founder and president of Nereide. She has a degree in Nature Sciences and a Master’s degree in Fauna Conservation from the University of Pavia (Italy).

She is from Milan and came to Tarifa in 2009 to do his master’s thesis on the study of sperm whale movements in the Strait of Gibraltar. She fell in love with these places and decided to stay and continue her life here. Since 2013 she is the mother of a fantastic little girl, a little mermaid fighter for the rights of the Planet. She loves travelling and getting to know other cultures, and has always been connected to the sea and its inhabitants.< She has worked on numerous projects focused on the conservation of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea and in recent years has been involved in the organisation of environmental education workshops in schools.

Since 2015 she has been managing El Cachalote Project, an artisany project connected to the sea, especially whales and dolphins. She decided to create the association Nereide in order to share her love and respect for the environment and animals and to pass it on to children and adults.

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Cristina Otero Sabio

Cristina Otero Sabio, PhD

Secretary, web design, communications, research

From Granada, traveller and passionate about the sea and cetaceans from a very young age. She graduated in biology from the University of Granada in 2014 and that same year he started working as a whale watching guide in Tarifa for several seasons. During this period she carried out photo-identification studies of the orca population in the Strait of Gibraltar. Her motivation and enthusiasm to continue learning led her to continue her studies in the field of marine biology. She completed an international master’s degree in marine biodiversity and conservation (2016-2018) and later completed a PhD thesis on the effects of PFAS compounds on marine mammal cells at the University of Padova, Italy (2018-2022).

In addition to science, she is also a professional artist. Her works include watercolours, with a marine and activist touch. She has also been doing artistic and nature photography for more than a decade.

Cristina has been present in Nereide since its foundation even from afar, taking care of communications, web design, graphic design and writing research projects. She currently lives between Granada and Tarifa, combining her work as an artist and researcher.

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Mateo Leon

Mateo León

Treasurer and strategy consultant

He was born in Tarifa and graduated in Biology from the University of Cordoba in 2007. He has lived in Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, where he studied a master’s degree in “Science and Innovation Management”. He returned to Tarifa in 2014 and his main activity is strategic consultancy under the name Knowmad Consulting. Among other things, he advises associations, processes their documentation for their creation and manages grants for them. He is currently working as BDM I+D at the Funditec Technology Centre in Madrid.

He helped the Nereide association with its creation and today he is the treasurer and also advises its board in every possible way.

Sara Lacalle Moreno

Environmental education, project Edunatura

From Madrid, adopted by Extremadura and Cádiz. Raised in the natural landscapes of Montfragüe and the Natural Park of the Strait of Gibraltar, which has awakened her interest and passion for the natural elements, animals and sporting activities that allow her to enjoy the connection with them from a very early age. She graduated as an early childhood education teacher in 2014 and the following year she completed a Master’s Degree which qualified her as a Technical Teacher of Intermediate and Higher Level Training Cycles. She currently works as a social educator in schools and institutes in the area.

Her interest in nature, her vocation for education and her awareness of the crisis of values that prevails among our young people led her to unite her two passions to give shape, together with Nereide, to the EduNatura project.

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Paola Fabricio

No Plastic Mor Fun Project Manager

Originally from Naples but lived in Milan for a long time. Since she was a child she always had a strong attraction for biology, science and nature, which is why she graduated in Natural Sciences. She worked for several years as a biologist in the Italian region of Lombardy on a project for the protection of local plants.

She arrived in Tarifa in 2017 to join his brothers and start a new adventure with them: opening a restaurant. She started to transfer her knowledge to her new job, declaring war on throwaway plastic and all environmentally unfriendly practices. Missing her job as a biologist, she started to organise environmental conservation projects together with her friend Eva and this is how she started collaborating with Nereide. The idea is to make as many people as possible aware of the issue of protecting and respecting the environment through events and workshops, involving the local population in concrete initiatives such as promoting the abandonment of single-use plastic among Tarifa’s businesses.

He mantra is: “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, take action!”

Alessia Scuderi

Research, ferris project manager

She comes from Reggio Calabria, Italy, and has been living in Tarifa for a few years. She graduated in marine biology doing a research on the identification of feeding areas of fin whales in the Ligurian Sea. She continued her master’s studies at the University of Barcelona, where she conducted a study on the diet of the monk seal. Alessia’s dream is that human animals and cetaceans in the Strait of Gibraltar can share the sea in harmony. For the same reason she is doing a PhD on the integrated management of marine areas characterised by the presence of marine mammals in co-supervision by the University of Cadiz (Spain) and the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Thanks to her PhD project she has been able to collaborate with the universities of Gibraltar, Victoria (Canada) and Auckland (New Zealand). She has also collaborated for more than a decade with Tethys Research Institute (Italy). Alessia has been a promoter of the ferry project, has worked as an environmental specialist, marine biologist, MMO and PAM operator and also as a guide on board whale watching boats in the Strait of Gibraltar. Her enthusiasm for the sea and animals has led her to participate in the Nereide association initiative, of which she is a founding member.

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