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Doctor Patricia Lourenço (female, PhD) is currently working at the AgroInsider Lda. (https://agroinsider.com/) as Project and Innovation Manager and is an integrated member at the MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, University of Évora, Portugal. She is graduated in Biology, with a master’s degree in Biology and Marine Resources Management and a PhD in Applied and Environmental Sciences. She is an expert in Remote Sensing. She has experience in working in various international and national projects using remote sensing techniques, GIS, Data Modeling and Governance System Design to support the decision-making, in a cost-effective way, in Land and Sea Management and Environmental Planning of different Ecosystem Functional Types and Services, such as: Semi-Arid and Arid (Mediterranean) in Andalusia (Spain), Morocco and Alentejo (Portugal); Humid Subtropical of Small Oceanic Islands (Azores Islands); Subtropical (Florida, US); and Tropical (Guiné-Bissau).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Patrícia Lourenço

Citation names

  • Patrícia Lourenço

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
601C-DE9B-263A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4901-0934

Addresses

  • Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554, Evora, Evora, Portugal (Professional)
  • Rua Gomes de Amorim 1230 - 1, 4490-641, Povoa de Varzim, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Agrarian Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/12/18
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Ciências Aplicadas e Ambientais (Doktor (PhD))
Universidad de Almería, Spain
"Ecosystem functioning of protected area networks. A remote sensing assessment across socio-ecosystem contexts" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com menção summa cum laude (com distinção
2007/03/19
Concluded
 Biologia e Gestão dos Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"A ETAR de Tróia na Reserva Natural do Estuário do Sado: Impacto sobre o ambiente estuarino adjacente" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Bom com distinção
2002/07
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Não aplicavel" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/02 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2017/05/18 - 2018/12/31 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
2016/04/26 - 2017/04/25 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011/05/16 - 2015/12/18 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidad de Almería, Spain
2009/12/01 - 2010/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2006/09/01 - 2009/11/30 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
2004/04/01 - 2006/08/31 Researcher (Research) IMAR / Guia Marine Laboratory (LMG), Portugal
2003/06/01 - 2003/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2002/09/16 - 2003/02/15 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2008/02/16 - 2008/04/30 Assistente de investigação. Bolsa de estudo da Fundação Instituto do Mar (IMAR) / Luso-Americana. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
2008/01/01 - 2008/02/15 Assistente de investigação. Bolsa de estudo da Fundação Instituto do Mar (IMAR) / Luso-Americana. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
2005/10/01 - 2005/12/31 Assistente de investigação. Bolsa de estudo da Fundação Instituto do Mar (IMAR) / Luso-Americana Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/01/02 - 2020/02/29 SAGRI - Sustainable Agriculture
575898-EPP-1-2016-1-EL-EPPKA2-SSA
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2017/04/30 Project LIFE LINES “Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”
Life LINES
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Concluded
2007/09/01 - 2009/11/30 CARBOVEG-GB “Quantification of carbon stocks and of sink effects in the forest vegetation of Guinea-Bissau”
CARBOVEG-GB
Research Fellow
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
Concluded
2006/09/01 - 2007/08/31 Land-cover changes and successional pathways in the forests of Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau
POCI/BIA-BDE/57965/200
Research Fellow
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
Concluded
2004/04/01 - 2006/08/31 Impact Assessment of Amplification and Remodeling of the Sewage Treatment Plant in Tróia
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Research Fellow
IMAR / Guia Marine Laboratory (LMG), Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2011 - 2012/08/31 GLOCHARID project “Global Changes in Arid and Semiarid zones of Andalusia”
GLOCHARID
Researcher
Universidad de Almería, Spain
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/01/02 - Current SFARM - Sustainable Farming
585814-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/09/01 - 2018/12/31 SALSA - Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food nutrition security
H2020 Project SALSA
Researcher
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/05/18 - 2018/08/31 ProAgriFor - Promover o Envolvimento de Stakeholders do setor Agroflerestal no Alentejo na Transferência de Conhecimento e em Parcerias no âmbito do Projeto SMARTAgriFor
ALT20-03-0246-FEDER-000022
Researcher
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal
Concluded
2012/09/01 - 2015/05/31 POCTEFEX TRANSHABITAT “Sustainable Development of the Cross-Border Natura 2000 Net and Habitats of Common Interest in Andalusia – Morocco”
POCTEFEX TRANSHABITAT
Researcher
Universidad de Almería, Spain
Concluded
2009/12/01 - 2010/12/31 Green Islands “Use of woody plant biomass for energy production in the Azores Islands”
MIT Portugal
Research Fellow
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2002/09/15 - 2003/08/31 ProRecruit (Shelf Processes Controlling Recruitment to Littorial Populations in an Eastern Oceanic Boundary: Using Barnacles and Crabs as Models – POCTI\1999\BSE\36663)
POCTI\1999\BSE\36663
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Patrícia Lourenço. "Biomass estimation using satellite-based data". In Forest Biomass - From Trees to Energy. 2020.
    Under revision
  2. Borges Silva, Lurdes; Lourenço, Patrícia; Ponte, Nuno Bicudo; Medeiros, Vasco; Elias, Rui Bento; Alves, Mário; Silva, Luís. "Development of Allometric Equations for Estimating Above-Ground Biomass of Woody Plant Invaders: The Case of Pittosporum undulatum in the Azores Archipelago". In Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and Bioeconomics II, 463-484. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-55236-1_22
  3. Cabello, J.; Lourenço, P.; Reyes, A.; Alcaraz-Segura, D.. "Ecosystem services assessment of national parks networks for functional diversity and carbon conservation strategies using remote sensing". 179-200. 2013.
  4. Lourenco, Patricia. "Ecosystem functioning of the national parks network in Spain: recent impacts detection and development of a monitoring and alert system based on remote sensing tools". In National Parks Research Projects: 2008-2011. 2012.
Conference paper
  1. Patrícia Lourenço; Ponte, Nuno; Pacheco, João; Silva, Luís; Medeiros, Vasco; Aranha, J.. "Avaliação da quantidade de biomass em povoamentos florestais de Cryptomeria japonica e Pittosporum undulatum nos Açores". Paper presented in V Jornadas Florestais Insulares, Ponta Delgada, Azores, 2011.
  2. Patrícia Lourenço; Moura, M; Carine, M.A.; Malécot, V.; Silva, Luís. "The Azorean Viburnum: taxonomic reassessment and phylogenetic relationships within the Tinus section". Paper presented in International Symposium FloraMac2010, Ponta Delgada, Azores, 2010.
  3. Patrícia Lourenço; Medeiros, Vasco; Gil, Artur; Silva, Luís. "Noxious weed or biomass resource? The case of Pittosporum undulatum the most important woody plant invader in the Azores Archipelago". Paper presented in International Symposium FloraMac2010, 2010.
  4. Oom, D.; Lourenço, P.; Cabral, A.I.R.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Catarino, L.; Cassamá, V.; Moreira, J.. "Quantification of deforestation rates in Guinea-Bissau - A baseline for carbon trading under REDD". 2009.
  5. Lourenço, P.; Cabral, A.I.R.; Oom, D.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Catarino, L.; Temudo, M.P.. "Re-growth of mangrove forests of Guinea-Bissau". 2009.
  6. Patrícia Lourenço; Cabral, Ana; Oom, Duarte. "Analysis of the land-cover/use change in Guinea-Bissau for the 1994-2002 periods". Paper presented in International Workshop on Climate and Natural Resources in the Portuguese-speaking Countries: Partnerships in the Area of Climate and Environment Cape Verde, Ilha do Sal, 2008.
Conference poster
  1. Patrícia Lourenço; Baptista, F.; Fitas da Cruz, Vasco; Silva, Luís Leopoldo; Marques da Silva, José Rafael; Correia, Manuela. "Best practices for masters programmes in sustainable farming". Paper presented in X Congresso Ibéricode Agroengenharia, 2019.
  2. Patrícia Lourenço; Cabello, Javier; Reyes, A.; Alcaraz-Segura, D.. "A program for monitoring ecosystem functioning in the Spanish National Park Network based on remote sensing variables". Paper presented in Symposium: Space - the final frontier for biodiversity monitoring? - Zoological Society of London, 2016.
  3. Lourenco, Patricia. "Ecosystem functioning similarities of protected areas between Spain and Morocco: a transboundary case study". Paper presented in III Mini-Symposium for Experimental Sciences Research, 2014.
  4. Lourenco, Patricia. "Effectiveness of protected areas in conservation of regulating ecosystem services: a case study in Spain and Morocco". Paper presented in II Mini-Symposium for Experimental Sciences Research, 2013.
  5. Lourenco, Patricia. "Why gypsum outcrops maintain high vegetation greenness during the summer in semiarid Mediterranean climates?". Paper presented in 12th EEF Congress, 2011.
Journal article
  1. Lourenco, Patricia; Sousa, Adélia; Gonçalves, Ana Cristina; Godinho, Sérgio. "Estimating tree aboveground biomass using satellite-based data in a Mediterranean agroforestry system using Random Forest algorithm". International Journal of Remote Sensing (2020):
    Under revision
  2. Patrícia Lourenço. "Which are the best practices for MSc programmes in sustainable agriculture?". Journal of Cleaner Production (2020):
    Under revision
  3. Lourenco, Patricia; Baptista, Fátima; Fitas da Cruz, Vasco; Silva, L.L.; Silva, José Rafael; Correia, Manuela; Papadakis, George; Dimitriou, Evangelis; Picuno, Pietro. "Sustainable farming best practices for MSc programes". Journal of Rural Studies (2019):
    Submitted
  4. Lourenco, Patricia. "ICATE: infection control awareness through education". International Journal of Infectious Diseases 73 178 (2018):
    Published
  5. Patrícia Lourenço; Rui Soares; Ana Carvalho; Inês Roxo; Richard Marques; Paulo Ferreira; Susana Alarico; Sónia Ferreira. "ICATE: infection control awareness through education". International Journal of Infectious Diseases 73 (2018): 178.
    Published
  6. Lourenco, Patricia. "Trends in vegetation greenness dynamics in protected areas across borders: what are the environmental controls?". International Journal of Remote Sensing Special 39 14 (2018): 4699-4713. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1466080.
    Published
  7. Lourenço, P.; Alcaraz-Segura, D.; Reyes-Díez, A.; Requena-Mullor, J.M.; Cabello, J.. "Trends in vegetation greenness dynamics in protected areas across borders: what are the environmental controls?". International Journal of Remote Sensing 39 14 (2018): 4699-4713. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046146315&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/01431161.2018.1466080
  8. Borges Silva, L.; Lourenço, P.; Teixeira, A.; Azevedo, E.B.; Alves, M.; Elias, R.B.; Silva, L.. "Biomass valorization in the management of woody plant invaders: The case of Pittosporum undulatum in the Azores". Biomass and Bioenergy 109 (2018): 155-165. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040006180&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.12.025
  9. Lourenco, Patricia. "Biomass valorization in the management of woody plant invaders: The case of Pittosporum undulatum in the Azores". Biomass and Bioenergy 109 (2017): 155-165.
    Published
  10. Cabello, J.; Alcaraz-Segura, D.; Reyes, A.; Lourenço, P.; Requena, J. M.; Bonache, J.; Castillo, P.; et al. "Sistema para el Seguimiento del funcionamiento de ecosistemas en la Red de Parques Nacionales de España mediante Teledetección". Revista de Teledetección 46 (2016): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/raet.2016.5731.
    10.4995/raet.2016.5731
  11. Cabello, J.; Alcaraz-Segura, D.; Reyes, A.; Lourenço, P.; Requena, J.M.; Bonache, J.; Castillo, P.; et al. "System for monitoring ecosystem functioning of network of national parks of Spain with remote sensing,Sistema para el Seguimiento del funcionamiento de ecosistemas en la Red de Parques Nacionales de España mediante Teledetección". Revista de Teledeteccion 2016 46 (2016): 119-131. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84976353373&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4995/raet.2015.5731
  12. Costa, Hugo; Aranda, Silvia C.; Lourenço, Patrícia; Medeiros, Vasco; Azevedo, Eduardo Brito de; Silva, Luís. "Predicting successful replacement of forest invaders by native species using species distribution models: The case of Pittosporum undulatum and Morella faya in the Azores". Forest Ecology and Management 279 (2012): 90-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.022.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.022
  13. Lourenço, Patrícia; Medeiros, Vasco; Gil, Artur; Silva, Luís. "Distribution, habitat and biomass of Pittosporum undulatum, the most important woody plant invader in the Azores Archipelago". Forest Ecology and Management 262 2 (2011): 178-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.021.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.021
  14. Lourenco, Patricia. "Assessing the effectiveness of high resolution satellite imagery for vegetation mapping in small islands protected areas". Journal of Coastal Research 64 (2011): 1663-1667.
  15. Gil, A.; Yu, Q.; Lobo, A.; Lourenço, P.; Silva, L.; Calado, H.. "Assessing the effectiveness of high resolution satellite imagery for vegetation mapping in small islands protected areas". Journal of Coastal Research SPEC. ISSU (2011): 1663-1667. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957548005&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. dos Santos, A; Santos, AMP; Conway, DVP; Bartilotti, C; Lourenço, P; Queiroga, H. "Diel vertical migration of decapod larvae in the Portuguese coastal upwelling ecosystem: implications for offshore transport". Marine Ecology Progress Series 359 (2008): 171-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07341.
    10.3354/meps07341
Report
  1. Lourenco, Patricia; Fátima de Jesus Folgôa Baptista; Vasco Fitas da Cruz. 2019. R2.4 - Description of methodology and tools, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal. SFARM project. Refª SFARM - 585814-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.
  2. Lourenco, Patricia; Fátima de Jesus Folgôa Baptista; Vasco Fitas da Cruz; Luís Leopoldo Silva; José Rafael da Silva; Manuela Correia. 2019. D1.2 - Report on similar curricula in Europe, University of Evora, Évora, Portugal. SFARM project. Refª SFARM - 585814-EPP-1-2017-1-EL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.
  3. Lourenco, Patricia; Fátima de Jesus Folgôa Baptista. 2019. R5.3 - Training workshop for agricultural extension staff in Portugal, University of Evora, Évora, Portugal. SAGRI project. Refª SAGRI - 575898-EPP-1-2016-1-EL-EPPKA2-SSA.
  4. Lourenco, Patricia; Fátima de Jesus Folgôa Baptista; Vasco Fitas da Cruz. 2019. Report 2.2 - Study Visit in Portugal University of Évora.
  5. Lourenco, Patricia. 2014. Seguimiento de Hábitats y Ecosistemas mediante Teledetección y Sistema de Alerta..
  6. Lourenco, Patricia; Clegg, B.; Koranda, J.; Robinson, W.; Holladay, G.. 2014. Monitoring of habitat and ecosystem by remote sensing and alert system. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6464296.
    10.2172/6464296
  7. Lourenco, Patricia. 2014. Assessment of the productivity dynamics of vegetation through remote sensing. Design of a System of indicators and methodology for monitoring the effects of global change in arid and semiarid Andalusian lift (GLOCHARID). Fourth Technical Report..
  8. Lourenco, Patricia. 2012. Guide to incorporation of remote sensing to environmental monitoring of the national parks network in Spain. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2065.8088.
  9. Lourenco, Patricia. 2011. Block IV - Ecosystems and Management. Subproject Habitats and Ecosystems (S8). Design of a System of indicators and methodology for monitoring the effects of global change in arid and semiarid Andalusian lift (CAESCG). Third Technical Report.
  10. Lourenco, Patricia. 2011. Block IV - Ecosystems and Management. Subproject Habitats and Ecosystems (S8). Design of a System of indicators and methodology for monitoring the effects of global change in arid and semiarid Andalusian lift (CAESCG). Second Technical Report.
  11. Lourenco, Patricia. 2008. Estuarine environment factor of the Environmental Impact Assessment of Amplification and Remodelling of the Sewage Treatment Plant in Tróia.
  12. Lourenco, Patricia. 2005. Intertidal environments in Environmental Impact Assessment of Amplification and Remodeling of the Sewage Treatment Plant in Tróia.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Lourenco, Patricia. "Ecosystem functioning of protected area networks. A remote sensing assessment across social-ecosystem contexts". PhD, Universidad de Almería, 2015.
  2. Lourenco, Patricia. "Sewage treatment plant of Troia in a preserved area of the Sado estuary (Portugal): impact on the contiguous estuarine environment". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2007.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/10/07 Remote sensing techniques using sentinel-2 images using the platform Google Earth Engine
Departamento de Engenharia Rural da Escola de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora (Evora, Portugal)
2019/07/10 Precision agriculture makes the invisible visible with sustainable farming solutions Science and Technology Summit in Portugal
Invited speaker in the PRIMA Program – Precision Agriculture (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/07 Remote sensing and geographic information system 1st study visit of SFARM project of EU partners to Asia Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) at Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China
Chongqing Three Gorges University (Wanzhou, Chongqing, China)
2018/11/15 Estimation of Forest Aboveground Biomass Based on Vegetation Indices and Principal Component Analysis with Random Forest Regression Models Convite pessoal
Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2018/11/14 Remote sensing in the control of invasive plants along the infrastructures Investigar ICAAM, Pólo da Mitra, University of Evora
(Evora, Portugal)
2018/09/11 Expansion of alien invasive plants along roadside: a remote sensing approach IENE 2018 International Conference
(Eindhoven, Netherlands)
2018/06/07 Social network analysis revealing the Dynamics of a research unit CIReS - 2º Congresso Internacional de Redes Sociais
(Evora, Portugal)
2017/11/08 Detecção Remota em Diferentes Contextos Socioeconômicos III Fórum Internacional Conecta
Latin American Real Estate Society (Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
2017/10/12 AWISHE – Association for World Innovation in Science and Health Education; ICATE: um programa de sensibilização para o controlo de infecção através da educação ScicomPt 2017
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/04/27 A biodiversidade e o controlo de plantas invasoras frente às alterações globais através de detecção remota XXX
(Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal)
2016/09/28 Expansion patterns of alien invasive plants along roads: a remote sensing approach I Congress of biodiversity and nature conservation: dissemination and transfer of knowledge among the various sectors of society
(Almería, Spain)
2016/06/17 Expansion patterns of alien invasive plants along roads: a remote sensing approach 3rd Meeting of QGIS Users Portugal
IEEE (Porto, Portugal)
2016/04/07 Functional characterization of protected areas as the basis for a regional conservation perspective: the case of the Baetic-Rifan biodiversity hotspot Congresso da Ordem dos Biólogos. I Cimeira Ibérica de Biólogos
(Évora, Portugal)
2015/10/21 Diseño de un programa de seguimiento del funcionamiento de ecosistemas mediante teledetección para la Red de Parques Nacionales de España. Teledetección: Humedales y Espacios Protegidos XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Teledetección
(Sevilla, Spain)
2015/10/21 Ecology & remote sensing: identifying changes in the functioning of the ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada protected área from 2001 to 2013. Teledetección: Humedales y Espacios Protegidos. XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Teledetección
(Sevilla, Spain)
2014/02/14 Functional characterization of the protected areas of Andalusia and North of Morocco X Jornada maratón de la Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas
(Almería, Spain)
2013/03/05 National Parks Networks assessment and trade-offs between functional diversity and carbon conservation strategies IX Jornada maratón de la Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas
(Almería, Spain)
2013/03/04 Lithology and vegetation as environmental controls of EVI in Mediterranean drylands EGU General Assembly
(Viena, Austria)
2012/06/26 Biotic and abiotic environmental controls in arid ecosystems: cases from SE Spain Seminar serie in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Techniques for Archaeology and the Environment
IMF-CSIC Barcelona (June, Spain)
2012/04/01 Monitoring spatio-temporal dynamics of mangrove forest in Guinea-Bissau World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
(Roma, Italy)
2011/02/08 Avaliação da quantidade de biomass em povoamentos florestais de Cryptomeria japonica e Pittosporum undulatum nos Açores V Jornadas Florestais Insulares
(Azores, Portugal)
2010/09/23 The Azorean Viburnum: taxonomic reassessment and phylogenetic relationships within the Tinus section International Symposium FloraMac2010
(Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2010/09/23 Noxious weed or biomass resource? The case of Pittosporum undulatum the most important woody plant invader in the Azores Archipelago International Symposium FloraMac2010
(Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal)
2009/05/04 Quantification of deforestation rates in Guinea-Bissau – A baseline for carbon trading under REDD 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment “Sustaining the Millennium Development Goals”
(Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy)
2009/05/04 Re-growth of mangrove forests of Guinea-Bissau 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment “Sustaining the Millennium Development Goals”
(Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy)
2008/03/02 Analysis of the land-cover/use change in Guinea-Bissau for the 1994-2002 periods International Workshop on Climate and Natural Resources in the Portuguese-speaking Countries: Partnerships in the Area of Climate and Environment Cape Verde
(Ilha do Sal, Cape Verde)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2014/09/15 - 2015/09/22 Do gypsum soils offer advantages in water availability for vegetation in drylands?
Co-supervisor
 Ciencias Ambientalres (Degree)
Universidad de Almería, Spain

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/20 Summer School COPERNICUS Sentinels, Remote sensing techniques in forestry organized by the Italian Association of Remote Sensing, jointly with the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of Italy, the Laboratory of Forest Geomatics at the University of Florence, the Geomatics Research Group of the DISAFA-University of Torino, in cooperation with European Space Agency (ESA) and European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), and under the auspicious of EO4GEO project.
Workshop
 Summer School COPERNICUS Sentinels, Remote sensing techniques in forestry
Centro di Formazione Sperimentazione e innovazione Vittorio Tadini, Italy
2017/11/01 - 2017/11/17 II National workshop and training of teachers and tutors of collaborative learning communities in an exchange between Brazil and Portugal, of diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, Zika virus and chikungunya, linked to the United Nations Associated Schools Program for Education, Science and Culture (PEA-Unesco) in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Workshop
 United Nations Associated Schools Program for Education, Science and Culture (PEA-Unesco) in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2018/11/16 Doctoral studies in Biology Program, required by the student Lara Sofia Pereira Dutra Silva
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lara Sofia Pereira Dutra Silva (PhD)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016/05/15 - Current AWISHE “Association of World Innovation on Science and Health Education”, an association of innovation in science and health education, non-profit and private (http://awishe.wixsite.com/awishe). Supervisory Board member
1987/10/01 - 2001/07/30 Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escuteiros Católicos Portugueses Membro desde lobito a caminheiro.

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2014/09/01 - 2015/09/01 Do gypsum soils offer advantages in water availability for vegetation in drylands? Sara López Cadenas