On December 5th and 7th, 2020, we had the presentation of two Bachelor Dissertations (TCC) on research that directly involved the training ship Ciências do Mar III
The first was presented on monday 5th by the student Augusto dos Santos Rosa, from the Water Resources and Environmental Engineering course. The work entitled DESIGN STUDY OF A WATERWAY FOR AN OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIP NEAR THE UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE CAMPUS, had prof. Rodrigo Amado Garcia Silva as main supervisor, with the co-supervision of Prof. André Luiz Belem. The objective was to analyze the feasibility of building a navigation channel, with an associated evolution basin and mooring area, for the Ciências do Mar III, in a potential area for building a pier at the Gragoatá coastal campus of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF-RJ). The research also included an assessment of the volume of sediments that should be dredged so that the safety depth is met, as well as a proposal for the disposal of the dredged material.
On Wednesday the 7th, the students Thais da Costa Rodrigues and Rafaela Pena Santos, with the supervision of the professor Maria das Graças G. de A. Medeiros (main supervisor) and nutritionist Muriel da Silva Carneiro (co-supervisor), all from the Faculty of Nutrition Emília de Jesus Ferreira, at UFF, presented the work SANITARY CONTROL IN CATERING OFFSHORE: DEVELOPMENT OF A LIST OF VERIFICATION WITH RISK ANALYSIS. The objective of the work was to develop a checklist for assessing health risks in Food Services, based on the service developed by the group for the Ciências do Mar III. The list will be the basis for the application of the health assessment of Food Services, including those existing within the Federal Fluminense University, which is under development under the guidance of prof. Flávio Luiz Seixas from the university’s Computation Institute. The TCC, approved, was prepared in the form of an article and will be submitted to the journal chosen by the working group. This work is a product of the Research Group on Healthy Eating Practices (PRAS) of the Faculty and was the group’s first work in the offshore area.
The two works are in line with a policy of the ship’s steering committee that all UFF’s courses develop teaching, research and extension activities that collaborate in the management of the vessel. The idea is to make this patrimony recently incorporated into the university also support research in areas other than marine sciences.

