Joana ParenteFCiências · Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c)
Joana Parente
PhD Physical sciences
Pos-Doc at Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the University of Lisbon!
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Introduction
I received a Ph.D. in Science Physics from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in 2019 and I am currently working as research in the project FRISCO: “managing fire-induced risks of water quality contamination”. My research focuses on fire assessment. Currently, I’m focus in analysing the fires impacts on soil erosion and water quality.
Additional affiliations
August 2021 - present
FCiências: Associação para a investigação e desenvolvimento de ciências
Position
- Researcher
December 2019 - July 2021
November 2016 - June 2019
Education
April 2018 - April 2018
Speak & Lead
Field of study
April 2018 - April 2018
Udemy: Minerva Singh
Field of study
- GIS
February 2018 - February 2018
Order of Engineers
Field of study
- GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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Publications (32)
In the last decades, the strength of climate change has been evident across the globe in many weather and climate extremes occurrences, including heatwaves and droughts. Those events are involved in all fire stages and influence all aspects of the fire regime [1].
More in: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/nh/2023/02/27/unravelling-the-complex-drive...
The time is now! Call for abstracts to #EGU23 #vEGU23 is now open! If you want to apply for financial support, submit your abstract by 1 December! (https://egu23.eu/guidelines/supports_and_waivers.html) If you are a regular, submit your abstract by 1 January 2023! (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/sessionprogramme) Submit your abstract...
"Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr Isabelle Desportes, a researcher who approaches disaster risk governance from the angle of political science and sociology."
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/nh/2022/06/27/repression-without-resistance-answering-natural-disasters/
"As part of the NH Division blog editorial team, we, Joana and Shreya, describe our experience at the EGU General Assembly (GA) 2022 (#EGU22), held in the Austria Centre in Vienna, from May 24th-28th. It was the first hybrid conference we attended in-person after two years of the pandemic, with a footfall of more than 7,000 people and about the sam...
Wildfires are a recurrent and increasing threat in mainland Portugal, where over 4.5 million hectares of forests and scrublands have burned over the last 38 years. These fire-affected landscapes have suffered an intensification of soil erosion processes, which can negatively affect soil carbon storage, reduce fertility and forest productivity, and...
O período entre 2018 e 2022 mostrou-nos que o problema dos incêndios à escala global não está a diminuir, antes pelo contrário. Parece que as consequências das alterações climáticas já estão a afectar a ocorrência de incêndios florestais em várias partes do Mundo, de uma forma que só esperaríamos que acontecesse vários anos mais tarde. Em muitos pa...
O período entre 2018 e 2022 mostrou-nos que o problema dos incêndios à escala global não está a diminuir, antes pelo contrário. Parece que as consequências das alterações climáticas já estão a afectar a ocorrência de incêndios florestais em várias partes do Mundo, de uma forma que só esperaríamos que acontecesse vários anos mais tarde. Em muitos pa...
"The frequency and intensity of drought periods have increased since the 1950s over most land areas [1]. In fact, between 1998 and 2017, drought was the sixth natural hazard associated with disasters (4.8% of the total number of disasters) but the second in terms of the total number of affected people (33% of the total number of affected people), c...
We kindly invite you to present your work to our session: NH7.1-Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires: models, theory, and reality (https://lnkd.in/eGtYKZav). Research topics of this session include, but are not limited, to the following: • development of methodologies based on expert knowledge or data driven approaches, for the recognition, m...
Wildfires are a recurrent and increasing threat in mainland Portugal, where over 4,5 million hectares of forests and scrublands have burned over the last 38 years. These fire-affected landscapes have suffered an intensification of soil erosion processes, which can negatively affect soil carbon storage, reduce fertility, forest productivity, and bec...
In this chapter, the cases of the extreme wildfires and disasters that occurred in Portugal in 2013 (Picões and Caramulo) and in 2017 (Pedrogão Grande and Central Region), their fire environment, fire propagation, and impacts are described. The Portuguese experience is complemented with other cases that occurred in Greece, Italy, Australia, USA, an...
In Portugal, drought characterizes the climatic variability, contributes to the increase of fire risk and its duration and intensity are expected to increase in future climate. Surprisingly, the quantitative and objective analysis to characterize the drought regime in current climate conditions as well as its influence on the occurrence of large wi...
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) refers to the zone of transition between wildlands and human development. Its spatio-temporal evolution is strongly influenced by land use/land cover changes (LULCC).
In Mediterranean countries, WUI represents the most prone area for human-caused wildfires, and is, at present, a central focus of wildfire policy. T...
The rural–urban interface (RUI), known as the area where structures and other
human developments meet or intermingle with wildland and rural area, is at
present a central focus of wildfire policy and its mapping is crucial for
wildfire management. In the Mediterranean Basin, humans cause the vast
majority of fires and fire risk is particularly high...
Heat waves (HW) can have devastating social, economic and environmental impacts. Together with long-term drought, they are the main factors contributing to wildfires. Surprisingly, the quantitative and objective analysis leading to the identification and characterization of HW in current and future climate conditions as well as its influence on the...
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts, but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them. The con...
In the European context, Portugal is the country with the highest number of wildfires and the second with more burnt area. The vast majority of these events are of human origin, whether caused by accident, negligence or arson, reason why it is particularly important to know the regime of these wildfires for forest and wildfire management activities...
The wildland-/rural-urban interface (WUI/RUI) is a particularly important aspect of the fire regime. In Mediterranean basin most of the fires in this pyro region are caused by humans and the risk and consequences are particularly high due to the close proximity to population, human infrastructures and urban areas. Population increase, urban growth...
The present study considers the Portuguese mapped burnt (NMBA), for the period 1990-2013. The main goal is to detect whether space and time interact generating clusters.
The spatial and temporal distribution of forest fires displays a complex pattern which strongly influences the forest landscape and the neighbouring anthropogenic development. Statistical methods developed for spatio-temporal stochastic point processes can be employed to find a structure, detect over-densities and trends in forest fire risk and add...
The risk of forest fires is very high in Mediterranean regions, and Portugal is one of the most affected countries. An abundance of space-time data series are available here, portraying information of their location, the time of the outbreak and other associated variables such as causes and burned area. These events present complex patterns that ca...
The risk of forest fires is very high in Mediterranean regions, and Portugal is one of the most affected countries. An abundance of space-time data series are available here, portraying information of their location, the time of the outbreak and other associated variables such as causes and burned area. These events present complex patterns that ca...
Projects
Projects (3)
Land abandonment in the Mediterranean has led to widespread afforestation and increasingly frequent and more severe wildfires. Fires affect vegetation cover and soil properties, enhancing the erosion and degradation of forest soils. They also increase the export of fine sediments and ashes to streams, impacting aquatic ecosystems and water supplies.
There has been much research focus on hydrological and erosion processes on burnt hillslopes during the post-fire recovery period. However, there have been difficulties in extrapolating these results to larger spatial scales, i.e. watersheds in which water and landscape management decisions are made.
FRISCO aims to support post-fire water management by:
- studying and mapping the impacts of fires on erosion and sediment transport pathways at large spatial scales;
- assessing how fires have impacted water quality in the past, for Portuguese watersheds;
- developing a risk assessment index based on satellite imagery, which can be applied shortly after a fire occurs, and implement it online;
- using a stochastic fire model to assess how forest management techniques can decrease water contamination risk, and how they compare with post-fire emergency interventions.
The FRISCO team includes experts from Sciences/ULisbon, Agronomy/ULisbon, and UAveiro, as well as managers from water utility Águas de Portugal SA.
This project proposal aims to provide a set of tools to help forest managers in the post-fire decision-making, and therefore adequately implement mitigation measures.
These tools consist in the soil erosion risk estimations in case of a wildfire, followed by a proposal of several emergency solutions for soil protection and impact reduction, considering various environmental and socio-economic restrictions (e.g. climate change, costs, burn severity). In this sense we propose the test of several soil erosion models, and the one that best fits the national reality will be used as a base of a tool to support forest management decision-making.
Similarly to an emergency plan, the soil erosion risk after a wildfire maps will become available, together with a vulnerability report and a proposal of mitigation measures for burned areas. Besides that, the online tool will become available to aid the forest management decision-making, that not only calculates the best mitigation investment scenario as also provides the information of the applicable laws and recommendations regarding other traditional management practices.
