Team involved in scientific cruises, composed of researchers and technicians from the partner universities of the INCT on Biodiversity of the Blue Amazon, as well as the managers of the marine research vessels (I, II, III and IV) and their crews. The aim is to carry out synoptic scientific cruises in the four regions (South, North, Northeast and Southeast), to integrate and standardize scientific methods among researchers in these Brazilian regions and to promote simultaneous collections throughout the Blue Amazon.