Liliane Paranhos Bitencourt

• PhD candidate
• PhD Student at The University of Western Australia

Continental shelves are amongst the most dynamic and vulnerable regions in the oceans, and understanding their dynamics has implications for the transport of organisms and materials in both coastal and offshore zones. Determining the circulation patterns in systems experiencing high variability is crucial, but challenging as continuous and high‐res...

Estuaries are highly dynamic, complex and one of the most productive ecosystems in the world. In the Patos Lagoon estuary, which is connected to the South Atlantic Ocean through a single inlet, the saltwater transport into and out of the estuary is intimately connected to the wind and river discharge from the main tributaries, as tidal effects are...

This study recognizes mud depocenters as important environmental monitoring sites in the Patos Lagoon system, which is the largest shallow coastal lagoon system in the world. We hope these results can help future studies assessing contamination in transitional systems.

We reviewed historical data on surface sediment composition/distribution and hydrodynamics of the Patos-Mirim lagoonal system, the largest coastal shallow limnological system of the world, located in eastern South America, which is ca.15,000 km2, the maximum length is almost 500 km and maximum depth is around 7 m. We inferred the geographical posit...

South America is particularly subject to El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-triggered phenomena, with above-average precipitation during ENSO warm events (El Niño) and below-average precipitation during cold events (La Niña). Seventeen years (2003–2019) of reflectance data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) - Aqua senso...

The Patos Lagoon, located in the southernmost part of Brazil, is a shallow and turbid lagoon of enormous ecological and economical importance. The seasonal, annual, and interannual variability of suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) in the lagoon was investigated in this study based on five years (2002–2006) of hydrodynamics + SSC simulations us...

Ambientes costeiros e estuarinos são reconhecidos pela sua alta complexidade e dinâmica, e pela constante interação com o oceano adjacente. Esse trabalho aborda um tópico interessante referente à hidrodinâmica e, também, a biota de ambientes estuarinos: o balanço de sal. O balanço de sal, devido à complexidade das forçantes que sobre ele atuam, é r...