José Hipólito da Costa Monteiro (Lisbon, Portugal, 18 February 1939), is a geologist and oceanographer who excelled as a Portuguese pioneer of marine geology.
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Monteiro main fields of scientific research were sedimentology dynamics of the continental shelf and coastal records, maritime geologic maps.
Other scientific interests including Environmental marine geology, application of autonomous underwater vehicles, deep-sea polymetallic sandstones and the Law of the Sea.