Two new members of the MACCIMO working group were hired this month. Emmanouela Vernadou is a Biologist with experience on the assessment of morphometric traits in marine invertebrates and will be involved in WP2 and WP3 tasks, along with collection of organisms with scientific diving. Athanasios Anastasiadis is a Fisheries Technologist with experience on the collection and maintenance of marine invertebrates under experimental conditions and will be involved in most WP2 tasks.