Ana Rita Brás Lopes (B21D-AE69-5425)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Rita Brás Lopes

Ana Rita Brás Lopes. Completed the Master degree in Management and Environmental Policies in 2017 by University of Aveiro and the graduation in Forestry Resources Engineering in 2009 by Coimbra College of Agriculture (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra). Currently attends a PhD in Territory, Risk and Public Policies by University of Aveiro in the Department of Environment and Planning (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) since 2019/12/01. Published 4 articles in journals. Participated, as Master Student Fellow, in 3 project(s), Other in 4 project(s) and as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project. In their professional activities interacted with 43 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Rita Brás Lopes

Citation names

Lopes, Ana Rita
Lopes, Ana
Lopes, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B21D-AE69-5425
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7205-177X

Email addresses

anaritalopes4@ua.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

234370349 (Professional)

Addresses

Universidade de Aveiro. Campus Universitário de Santiago , 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

www.cesam.ua.pt/anaritalopes (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/12/01 - 2023/12/01 Ongoing	PhD in Territory, Risk and Public Policies (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal "From predictions to decisions: Integrated process development to support policy and decision-making processes in forest management after wildfire" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 Concluded	Soil and water bioengineering Course (Outros) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 Concluded	Management and Environmental Policies (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Evaluation of two measures for soil erosion mitigation after wildfire " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016 - 2016 Concluded	Formation course in ArcGIS - Initial level (Outros) Ferreira Lapa, Lda, Portugal
2016 Concluded	Natural, industrial and technological risks (Outros) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Concluded	Course of Initial Pedagogical Training for Trainers (Outros) JOVIFORM - Consultoria Empresarial, Lda, Portugal
2009 Concluded	Forestry Resources Engineering (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal "Projecto de Recuperação Ambiental da Quarta Colónia de Emigração (Brasil)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008 Concluded	Geoprocessing course – Initial level – ArcGis (Outros) Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/07/15 - 2019/11/30	Research fellow	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

2010/02/06 - 2015/09/07	Technical support - Integrated management systems of quality and environment. National and International (Equatorial Guinea and Ghana) public construction projects.	MSF Engenharia SA, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/12/01 - Current	From predictions to decisions: Integrated process development to support policy and decision-making processes in forest management after wildfire SFRH/BD/146125/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/04/16 - 2019/11/30	FEMME - Development of a post-Fire Erosion risk Modelling tool for forest Management decision support PCIF/MPG/0019/2017 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/02/18 - 2019/04/15	WAFLE - Water footprint profile assessement of forests the case of eucalpyt PTDC/ASP-SIL/31573/2017 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/07/16 - 2019/02/15	EPYRIS - Joint Strategy for the Protection and Restoration of Ecosystems Affected by Forest Fires. (Integrated management in high-risk natural areas) SOE2/P5/E0811 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal	European Regional Development Fund

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2016/06 - 2017/06	RECARE - Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care ENV.2013.6.2-4 Other Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal	European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2016/01/04 - 2018/04/04	INVADER-B - INVAsive plant species management in Portugal: from early DEtection to Remote sensing and Biocontrol of Acacia longifolia info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/131547/PT Other Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/01/04 - 2018/04/04	INVADER-IV - Innovative Approaches to Detect invasive species and biocontrol agents PTDC/AAGREC/4896/2014 Other Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/01/04 - 2018/04/04	GANHA - Sustainable management of Acacia spp: natural control and other methodologies for habitat recovery in Classified Areas POSEUR-03-2215-FC-000052 Other Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Vieira, Diana; Lopes, Ana Rita; Corticeiro, Sofia; Serpa, Dalila; Keizer, JJ. "Modelling post-fire soil erosion in recently burned areas". Paper presented in Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion, Rome, 2019. Published
Conference poster	Parente, Joana; Girona-García, Antonio; Lopes, Ana Rita; Basso, Marta; Vieira, Diana. "Post-fire soil erosion map. The case of Portugal.". Paper presented in V Congresso Internacional de Riscos, 2020. Vieira, D; Lopes, AR; Corticeiro, S; González-Pelayo, O; Serpa, D; Keizer, JJ. "Assessing postfire soil erosion and its mitigation with Morgan-Morgan-Finney model in a recently burned Maritime Pine stands". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2019. Keizer, JJ; Vieira, A; González-Pelayo, O; Campos, I; Corticeiro, S; Lopes, A; Vieira, D. "The role of crown consumption, ecosystem functional unit and soil burn severity in wildfire ash loads of eucalyptus and Maritime Pine stands in north-central Portugal.". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2019. Keizer, JJ; González-Pelayo, O; Corticeiro, S; Lopes, AR; Foresta, S; Baron, C; Martins, M; et al. "Preliminary results of a field trial of post-fire erosion mitigation ina a Maritime pine area following the Pedrogão-Góis wildfire in Portugal.". Paper presented in VII International Conference on Fire Effects on Soil Properties, 2019. Keizer, JJ; Vieira, A; González-Pelayo, O; Campos, I; Corticeiro, S; Lopes, A; Vieira, D. "The role of crown consumption, ecosystem functional unit and soil burn severity in wildfire ash loads in two contrasting Maritime pine stands in north-central Portugal.". Paper presented in VII International Conference on Fire Effects on Soil Properties, 2019. Keizer, JJ; Vieira, D; Vieira, A; Valente, S; Silva, T; Silva, F; Serpa, D; et al. "Preventing further soil degradation following wildfires: recent advances towards an integrated assessment of the impacts of mulching.". Paper presented in International Conference on Ecohydrology, Soil and Climate Change, 2017. Silva, FC; Prats, S; Vieira, D; Puga, J; Lopes, R; Pelayo, O; Caetano, A; Campos, I; Keizer, JJ. "Effectiveness of two contrasting mulching rates to reduce post-fire soil and organic matter losses.". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2017.
Journal article	Lopes, A.R.; Girona-García, A.; Corticeiro, S.; Martins, R.; Keizer, J.; Vieira, D.C.S.. "What is wrong with post-fire soil erosion modelling? A meta-analysis on current approaches, research gaps, and future directions". Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5020. Accepted • 10.1002/esp.5020 Lopes, Ana Rita. "Effects of ploughing and mulching on soil and organic matter losses after a wildfire in Central Portugal". Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/cig.3768 Lopes, AR; Prats, S; Silva, FC; Keizer, JJ. "Effects of ploughing and mulching on soil and organic matter losses after a wildfire in Central Portugal". Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica (2019): Accepted Vieira, DCS; Corticeiro, S; Lopes, AR; Nunes, JPC; Neves, R; Keizer, JJ. "Modelação do Risco de Erosão como apoio à Gestão Florestal pós-incêndio". Revista Indústria e Ambiente 112 (2018): 14-17. http://www.industriaeambiente.pt/noticias/revista-n112-setembro-outubro-2018/. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	Lopes, Ana. "Evaluation of two measures for soil erosion mitigation after wildfire". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/24055.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020/12/10	Tackling post-fire hydrological impacts and their management at different scales in Portugal.	AGU Fall Meeting 2020
2020/05/04	What is wrong with post-fire soil erosion modelling?	EGU General Assembly 2020
2020/02/14	FEMME – Development of a post-fire erosion risk modelling tool for forest management decision support, in particular, the application of emergency stabilization measures.	1º Workshop de projetos de investigação científica no âmbito da prevenção e combate a incêndios florestais. (Coimbra)
2017/10	Can ploughing reduce post-fire soil (fertility) losses effectively as mulching?	Jornadas Internacionales FuegoRED (Castilla & Leon, Spain)
2017/10	The effectiveness of two contrasting mulch application rates to reduce post-fire erosion.	Congresso Florestal Nacional - Raízes do Futuro (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2016/11	Post-fire mulching to decrease soil loss: less is enough.	FuegoRED 2016 International Conference University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)