Team - Antarctic Environments and Climate Change. ANTECC

Gonçalo Vieira [homepage] | gtelesvieira@gmail.com | Assistant Professor, Head of Research Group

PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Lisbon and coordinator of AntECC. His research interests focus in the geomorphodynamics of polar and mountain environments and the control of climate change. Gonçalo collaborates since 1999 in research projects in the Antarctic. He is Co-Chair of SCAR Expert Group on Permafrost and Periglacial Environments, national representative at the European Polar Board, national contact for the International Polar Year, as well as national representative at the International Permafrost Association and International Association on Cryospheric Sciences

Carla Mora - homepage | csilvamora@gmail.com | Post-doc Researcher

Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies and PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Lisbon. Her research interests focus on mountain climatology, remote sensing of snow and on the effects of climate change on permafrost. Her PhD focussed at the serra da Estrela (Central Portugal), where she studied local climatology. Collaborates since 2005 on research projects concerning permafrost and climate change in the Maritime Antarctic. Her work is focussing in the remote sensing of snow cover and on the influence of snow on the ground temperature regime in the South Shetlands (Antarctic Peninsula).

Marc Oliva | oliva_marc@yahoo.com | Post-doc Researcher

PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Barcelona (2009). His dissertation focused on the present and past dynamics of periglacial processes in Sierra Nevada (Southern Spain). He has reconstructed the palaeoecological evolution in the present periglacial belt of this high semiarid Mediterranean massif studying two sedimentary records: solifluction lobes and mountain lakes. Both archives suggest important landscape changes in Sierra Nevada during the Mid-Late Holocene driven by climate variability. Since December 2009 he is researcher at AntECC. His ongoing research is focused on the study of the key factors controlling present and past slope processes in permafrost environments from polar areas (Antarctica, Svalbard).

Mário Neves | marioneves@ceg.ul.pt | Assistant Professor

PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Lisbon, collaborates with ANTECC since 2005. His research interests focus on the geomorphological dynamics of rocky coasts. Collaborates on the installation and maintenance of permafrost monitoring equipment and is working on the monitoring of coastal dynamics in the Antarctic Peninsula region.He has participated in the Antarctic campaigns of 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2009-10 where besides collaborating on ANTECC's permafrost research activities, has installed several sites for monitoring shore platform evolution by intertidal ice erosion.

Alexandre Trindade | alexandretn@gmail.com | Research Assistant

MS in Geography (Specialty in Physical Geography, Resources and Natural Hazards) at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and researcher of the Centre of Geographical Studies. His research interests focus on Permafrost and climate change and Geomorphodynamics in permafrost environment. His MS focused on the thermal regime of the active layer and permafrost in the Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). He participated in the Antarctic campaigns of 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 in Livingston Island, integrated in the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition. Alexandre is a member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) and of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

Alice Pena | ecilaanep@gmail.com | Research Assistant, Ms Student

Graduated in Physical Geography at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and at the moment she is a Master student in Physical Geography and Spatial Planning. She is preparing her masters thesis on “Climate change and the thermal regime of permafrost in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica): analysis of air and soil freezing indexes” She will participate in the Antarctic campaign of 2009-10 in Livingston Island, integrating the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition. Alice is a member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) and of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

Ana Salomé David | anasalomem@gmail.com | Manager of Science and Technology

Forest Engineer graduated at the Agrarian School of Coimbra. Masters student in GIS and Territorial Modelling applied to Planning at the University of Lisbon. Presently, she is Manager of Science and Technology at the Portuguese Polar Program.

Marco Jorge | marco.jorge@antecc.org | PhD Student and Research Assistant

Graduated in Geography at the University of Lisbon.
Extreme environments – the climax of the well-being lies there, hidden somewhere, he says. Science is the mean to discover the space(s) of it. He acknowledged it properly already, so that there is no way back. At this moment he is developing his PhD thesis plan, focusing on rock glaciers activity (DINSAR analysis and Ground-Truthing), controlling factors and environmental significance in some places of the Antarctic Peninsula. He is member of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN).

Vanessa Batista | vanessambatista@gmail.com | Researcher, Ms Student

Vanessa has a degree in Applied and Environmental Geology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and is Masters student in Geography (Specialization in Physical Geography, Natural Resources and Risks). She is preparing a master's dissertation on the "Characterization and spatial distribution of permafrost in Livingston and Deception Islands (South Shetlands Islands, Antarctic Peninsula)." Vanessa participated in Antarctic campaigns in 2008 and 2009.

Collaborators

António Correia, Associate Professor
Cristina Teixeira, Education and Outreach (Cinema)

Visiting Researchers

Gabriel Goyanes | PhD Student | University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (April - July 2011)

Gabriel Goyanes is PhD student at the University of Buenos Aires, co-supervised by Gonçalo Vieira and Alberto Caselli. his work focusses on the contemporary geomorphological dynamics of Deception Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. He will be in Lisbon for a short stage on geomorphological mapping and spatial modelling with GIS.

Miguel Ramos | Associate Professor | University of Alcalá - Spain (May 2011)

Miguel Ramos is Professor at the University of Alcalá and head of the research group on environmental physics. He conducts research in the Maritime Antarctic since 1988 focussing on permafrost monitoring and modelling.

Formerly at ANTECC

Everton Poelking | PhD Student - Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil (April - October 2010)

PhD Student at Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil (2007-2011). He is preparing his doctoral thesis on “Cryosoils and climate of Potter Peninsula, Maritime Antarctica”. He focus on active layer temperature monitoring sites and vegetation and soil modeling in the ice-free areas of Potter Peninsula. Everton has participated in Brazilian Antarctic campaigns in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and Portuguese Svalbard campaign in 2010.

Filipe Nogueira | f79.nogueira@gmail.com | Bs Student on stage. 2009-10

Student of Geography at the University of Lisbon. His area of interest is Physical Geography, namely climate change research. At the present he is on stage preparing a photo database, linked to a GIS platform on the geomorphology and environment of the Maritime Antarctic.

. Maria João Rocha. 2008-10.
. Raquel Melo. 2006-09.
. César Capinha. 2006-07
. Marcelo Fragoso.
. Pedro Casinhas.
. João Verde