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Maria J Vasconcelos is a forester and a senior researcher at the College of Agriculture of the University of Lisbon. Her main area of activity is in LULUCF and climate change, mainly in tropical regions. Her most recent work focuses on nature-based solutions for mitigation and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid tropical areas. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the National Adaptation Strategy of Portugal since 2017 and an Expert of the European Commission since 2010.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
maria vasconcelos

Citation names

  • vasconcelos, maria
  • Vasconcelos, Maria J
  • Maria José Vasconcelos
  • Maria josé Perestrelo de Vasconcelos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F61E-E14D-06EB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0438-3921
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ap1E0DQAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Agronomy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2003 - 2004
Concluded
 Forestry (Título de Habilitação de Coordenação Científica)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2004
Concluded
 n.a (Título de Agregado)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"n.a." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n.a.
1994
Concluded
 Equiv. a DOUTORAMENTO (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 n.a.
1991 - 1993
Concluded
 Renewable Natural Resource Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, United States
1993
Concluded
 n.n (Doctor of Philosophy)
The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, United States
"Modeling spatial dynamic ecological processes with DEVS-Scheme and geographic information systems " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n.a.
1989
Concluded
 Equiv. Mestre (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 n.a.
1987 - 1988
Concluded
 Watershed Management (Master)
The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, United States
1988
Concluded
 n.a (Master)
The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, United States
"Simulation of Fire Behavior with a Geographic Information System" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n.a.
1981 - 1986
Concluded
 Engenharia Florestal (Licenciatura)
Major in Renewable Natural Resource Management
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/07/15 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia Departamento de Engenharia Florestal, Portugal
1999/12/08 - 2015/06/30 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
1992 - 1999/12/01 Researcher (Research) Direção-Geral do Território, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019 - Current Official Consultant of FAO-UN Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 ODYSSEA - Observatory of the dynamics of interactions between societies and environment in the Amazon: Sustainability and adaptations to global change
H2020 (691053)
Researcher
2017/06 - 2017/12 Satellite Monitoring for Forest Management
Reference No. 1231131
2015 - 2017 Assessing the distribution of above-ground biomass in a range of forest types across the pan-tropical belt using L-band SAR data
JAXA ALOS-2 PI-1208
Researcher
Concluded
2015/08 - 2016/07 Agro-ecological zoning of Bafata, Quinara and Tombali regions in Guinea-Bissau
ZAE-RSeT
Principal investigator
2012/02/01 - 2015/07/31 CAJU - Cashew in West-Africa: socioeconomic and environmental challenges of an expanding cash crop
PTDC/AFR/117785/2010
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/04/16 - 2013/10/15 EnviGP - Improving Genetic Programming for the Environment
PTDC/EIA-CCO/103363/2008
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007 - 2010 CARBOVEG-GB - Quantification of carbon stocks and sinks in the forests of Guinea-Bissau
CARBOVEG-GB (Ringgold: 131680)
Principal investigator
Concluded
2005/05/01 - 2008/04/30 BRASIL - Fire in the Brazilian Amazon: multi-year mapping of area burned and estimation of pyrogenic emissions using remotely sensed data
POCTI/CTA/45126/2002
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2004/01/01 - 2007/12/31 FIRELANDSCAPE - Spatio-temporal fire patterns in Portugal (1984-2003). Impacts, risk assessment and fuel dynamics
POCTI/AGG/44942/2002
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/02/14 - 2007/09/30 CANTANHEZ - Land cover changes and successional pathways in the forests of Cantanhez, Guinea-Bissau
POCI/BIA-BDE/57965/2004
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2003 - 2006 GEOLAND - Land cover & Forest change
SIP3-CT-2003-502871
Researcher
2002 - 2005 RETRO - Reanalysis of the tropospheric chemical composition over the last 40 years
EVK2-2001-00370
Researcher
2000 - 2002 Reduction of uncertainties in estimates of atmospheric emissions from fires in southern Africa
SAPIENS 33582/99
Researcher

Other

Designation Funders
2018/06 - 2022/01 Participatory Management for community-based avoided deforestation in São-Tomé Obô Natural Park.
OBO-CARBONO, CEPF
Principal investigator
2017/02 - 2018/12 COMMUNITY BASED AVOIDED DEFORESTATION PROJECT IN GUINEA-BISSAU | CBADP Monitoring & Verification phase
REDD-GB_MON18
Principal investigator
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. "Cellular Automaton". In Our Earth’s Changing Land – an Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change, 101-102. United Kingdom: Greenwood; Illustrated edition, 2005.
  2. "Forest and Biodiversity". In Climate Change in Portugal. Scenarios, Impacts and Adaptations Measures, 369-413. Portugal: Gradiva, 2002.
    Published
  3. "A rule-based system for burnt area mapping in temperate and tropical regions using NOAA/AVHRR imagery". In Biomass Burning and its Inter-Relationships with the Climate System, 215-232. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
    Published
  4. "Simulation of fire growth in mountain environments". In Mountain Environments Geographic Information Systems, 167-185. CRC Press, 1994.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Cabral, A.; Vasconcelos, M.; Oom, D.. "Comparing information derived from global land cover datasets with landsat imagery for the huambo province and Guinea-Bissau". 2010.
Journal article
  1. "Examining the Socioeconomic Benefits of Oysters: A Provisioning Ecosystem Service from the Mangroves of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Journal of Coastal Research 38 2 (2021): 355-360.
    Open access • Published
  2. João E. Batista; Ana I. R. Cabral; Maria J. P. Vasconcelos; Leonardo Vanneschi; Sara Silva. "Improving Land Cover Classification Using Genetic Programming for Feature Construction". Remote Sensing (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091623.
    10.3390/rs13091623
  3. Catarina Lopes; Ana Leite; Maria José Vasconcelos. "Open-access cloud resources contribute to mainstream REDD+: The case of Mozambique". Land Use Policy 82 (2019): 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.11.049.
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.11.049
  4. vasconcelos, maria; J B Melo; G Ziv; T R Baker; J M B Carreiras; T R H Pearson; M J Vasconcelos. "Striking divergences in Earth Observation products may limit their use for REDD+". Environmental Research Letters (2018): http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae3f8.
    https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae3f8
  5. vasconcelos, maria. "Burned area estimations derived from Landsat ETM+ and OLI data: Comparing Genetic Programming with Maximum Likelihood and Classification and Regression Trees". (2018):
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.05.007
  6. Silva, S.; Vanneschi, L.; Cabral, A.I.R.; Vasconcelos, M.J.. "A semi-supervised Genetic Programming method for dealing with noisy labels and hidden overfitting". Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85035221183&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.swevo.2017.11.003
  7. Le Page, Y.; Vasconcelos, M.; Palminha, A.; Melo, I.Q.; Pereira, J.M.C.. "An operational approach to high resolution agro-ecological zoning in West-Africa". PLoS ONE 12 9 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029217363&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0183737
  8. Vasconcelos, M.J.; Cabral, A.I.R.; Melo, J.B.; Pearson, T.R.H.; Pereira, H.A.; Cassamá, V.; Yudelman, T.. "Can blue carbon contribute to clean development in West-Africa? The case of Guinea-Bissau". Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 20 8 (2015): 1361-1383. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84945382754&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11027-014-9551-x
  9. de Faria, M.L.; Ferreira, P.M.; Melo, J.B.; Vasconcelos, M.J.. "Correction to Faria, M., et al. A Social Assessment of Forest Degradation in the "Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park" [Guinea-Bissau, 5, (2014), 3327-3343]". Forests 6 2 (2015): 395-397. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84923552613&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/f6020395
  10. de Faria, M.L.; Ferreira, P.M.; Melo, J.B.; Vasconcelos, M.J.. "A social assessment of forest degradation in the "Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park", Guinea-Bissau". Forests 5 12 (2014): 3327-3343. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921462462&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/f5123327
  11. Castelli, M.; Silva, S.; Vanneschi, L.; Cabral, A.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Catarino, L.; Carreiras, J.M.B.. "Land cover/land use multiclass classification using GP with geometric semantic operators". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7835 LNCS (2013): 334-343. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84875660818&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9-34
  12. Carreiras, J.M.B.; Melo, J.B.; Vasconcelos, M.J.. "Estimating the above-ground biomass in miombo savanna woodlands (Mozambique, East Africa) using L-band synthetic aperture radar data". Remote Sensing 5 4 (2013): 1524-1548. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880431429&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/rs5041524
  13. Carreiras, J.M.B.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Lucas, R.M.. "Understanding the relationship between aboveground biomass and ALOS PALSAR data in the forests of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)". Remote Sensing of Environment 121 (2012): 426-442. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84858716754&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.012
  14. Cabral, A.I.R.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Oom, D.; Sardinha, R.. "Spatial dynamics and quantification of deforestation in the central-plateau woodlands of Angola (1990-2009)". Applied Geography 31 3 (2011): 1185-1193. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79956035161&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.09.003
  15. "A working prototype of a dynamic geographical information system". International Journal of Geographical Information Science 16 1 (2010): 69-91.
    Published
  16. Torres, J.; Brito, J.C.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Catarino, L.; Gonçalves, J.; Honrado, J.. "Ensemble models of habitat suitability relate chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) conservation to forest and landscape dynamics in Western Africa". Biological Conservation 143 2 (2010): 416-425. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-73849134327&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biocon.2009.11.007
  17. Mendes, J.M.; de Zea Bermudez, P.C.; Pereira, J.; Turkman, K.F.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.. "Spatial extremes of wildfire sizes: Bayesian hierarchical models for extremes". Environmental and Ecological Statistics 17 1 (2010): 1-28. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77049105157&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10651-008-0099-3
  18. Silva, S.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Melo, J.B.. "Bloat free genetic programming versus classification trees for identification of burned areas in satellite imagery". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6024 LNCS PART 1 (2010): 272-281. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952353504&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2-28
  19. De Zea Bermudez, P.; Mendes, J.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Turkman, K.F.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.. "Spatial and temporal extremes of wildfire sizes in Portugal (19842004)". International Journal of Wildland Fire 18 8 (2009): 983-991. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-72149134611&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1071/WF07044
  20. 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". Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009 (2009): 677-680. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879919344&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  21. Silva, J.M.N.; Temudo, M.P.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Oom, D.. "Shifting cultivation and forest cover change in the tropics: The case of Niassa, Mozambique". Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009 (2009): 669-672. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879983660&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  22. Cabral, A.I.R.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Oom, D.; Sardinha, R.. "Deforestation or regrowth? A quantification of forest extension in the Miombo of Angola for the period 1990 - 2000". Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009 (2009): 673-676. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879971785&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  23. 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". Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009 (2009): 250-253. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879899566&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  24. Mota, B. W.; Pereira, J. M. C.; Oom, D.; Vasconcelos, M. J. P.; Schultz, M.. "Screening the ESA ATSR-2 World Fire Atlas (1997–2002)". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 6 5 (2006): 1409-1424. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-1409-2006.
    10.5194/acp-6-1409-2006
  25. Cabral, A.I.R.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Martins, E.; Bartholomé, É.. "A land cover map of southern hemisphere Africa based on SPOT-4 vegetation data". International Journal of Remote Sensing 27 6 (2006): 1053-1074. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33744824968&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/01431160500307409
  26. Mota, B.W.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Oom, D.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Schultz, M.. "Screening the ESA ATSR-2 World Fire Atlas (1997-2002)". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 6 5 (2006): 1409-1424. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33746920921&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.5194/acp-6-1409-2006
  27. vasconcelos, maria. "Land Cover Type and Fire in Portugal:". Landscape Ecology (2005):
    10.1007/s10980-005-0070-8
  28. Ntaimo, L.; Zeigler, B.P.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Khargharia, B.. "Forest fire spread and suppression in DEVS". Simulation 80 10 (2004): 479-500. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-11844257597&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/0037549704050918
  29. Silva, J.M.N.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Cabral, A.I.; Sá, A.C.L.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Mota, B.; Grégoire, J.-M.. "An estimate of the area burned in southern Africa during the 2000 dry season using SPOT-VEGETATION satellite data". Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres 108 13 (2003): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0742287574&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  30. Cabral, A.; De Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Bartholomé, É.; Mayaux, P.. "Multi-temporal compositing approaches for SPOT-4 vegetation". International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 16 (2003): 3343-3350. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0043246747&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/0143116031000075936
  31. Sa, A.C.L.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Silva, J.M.N.; Ribeiro, N.; Awasse, A.. "Assessing the feasibility of sub-pixel burned area mapping in miombo woodlands of northern Mozambique using MODIS imagery". International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 8 (2003): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037693979&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  32. De Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Gonçalves, A.; Catry, F.X.; Paúl, J.U.; Barros, F.. "A working prototype of a dynamic geographical information system". International Journal of Geographical Information Science 16 11 (2002): 69-91. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036143717&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/13658810110095048
  33. Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Mussá Biai, J.C.; Araújo, A.; Diniz, M.A.. "Land cover change in two protected areas of Guinea-Bissau (1956-1998)". Applied Geography 22 2 (2002): 139-156. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036309519&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0143-6228(02)00005-X
  34. De Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Silva, S.; Tomé, M.; Alvim, M.; Pereira, J.M.C.. "Spatial prediction of fire ignition probabilities: Comparing logistic regression and neural networks". Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 67 1 (2001): 73-81. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035136120&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  35. Pereira, José M. C.; Pereira, Bárbara S.; Barbosa, Paulo; Stroppiana, Daniela; Vasconcelos, Maria J. P.; Grégoire, Jean-Marie. "Satellite monitoring of fire in the EXPRESSO study area during the 1996 dry season experiment: Active fires, burnt area, and atmospheric emissions". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 104 D23 (1999): 30701-30712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1999jd900422.
    10.1029/1999jd900422
  36. Pereira, J.M.C.; Carreiras, J.M.B.; Perestrello De Vasconcelos, M.J.. "Exploratory data analysis of the spatial distribution of wildfires in Portugal, 1980-1989". Geographical Systems 5 4 (1998): 355-390. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0007695386&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  37. Caetano, M.; Oliveira, T.; Paúl, J.; Vasconcelos, M.J.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Paul, J.. "Mapping shrublands and forests with multispectral satellite images based on spectral unmixing of scene components". Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 3222 (1997): 4-14. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57649188971&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1117/12.298143
  38. De Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Pereira, J.M.C.; Zeigler, B.P.. "Simulation of fire growth in GIS using discrete event hierarchical modular models". EARSeL 4 3 (1995): 54-62. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0029499587&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  39. de Vasconcelos, M.J.P.; Zeigler, B.P.; Graham, L.A.. "Modeling multi-scale spatial ecological processes under the discrete event systems paradigm". Landscape Ecology 8 4 (1993): 273-286. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0027132844&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/BF00125133
  40. Perestrello de Vasconcelos, M.J.; Zeigler, B.P.. "Discrete-event simulation of forest landscape response to fire disturbances". Ecological Modelling 65 3-4 (1993): 177-198. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0027838980&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0304-3800(93)90079-8
  41. Vasconcelos, M.J.; Guertin, D.P.. "Firemap - Simulation of fire growth with a geographic information system". International Journal of Wildland Fire 2 2 (1992): 87-96. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0002654846&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1071/WF9920087
  42. Vasconcelos, M.J.; Guertin, D.P.; Zwolinski, M.J.. "FIREMAP: simulation of fire behavior - a GIS supported system". General Technical Report - US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service RM-191 (1990): 217-221. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0025620677&partnerID=MN8TOARS.

Other

Other output
  1. Improving Land Cover Classification Using Genetic Programming. 2020. João Batista; Ana Cabral; Maria Vasconcelos; Leonardo Vanneschi; Sara Silva. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0168.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202010.0168.v1
Activities

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Portuguese 2030 National Strategy for Adaption to Climate Change
Member
2011 - Current Member of RSeT's Advisory Board
Member
 RSeT - Associação técnico-científica para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Delegate to COP 19 - Warsaw, in the Guinea-Bissau National Delegation.
2013 - 2013 Negotiation of the EU delegation agreement for the Global Climate Change Alliance Support Programme to East-Timor CRIS N.: DCI-ENV/2012/23745 representing IICT.

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Climate change consultant to the GCCA+ project GCP/CVI/046/EC REFLOR-CV Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Cabo Verde, Cape Verde
2018 - 2019 Expert support to the development of the Forest Reference Emissions Level of Guinea-Bissau
2014 - 2016 Technical assistance to the Government of Guinea-Bissau: inception of the REDD+ Readiness process in Guinea-Bissau. Consultant to the World Bank. Project developed in collaboration with FAO and UNDP.
2014/07 - 2014/12 The Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA+): production of the action document for Guinea-Bissau. MWHGlobal for DEVCO, EU: Interact with official entities and stakeholders for designing and developing the Action Document in col-laboration with the EUD.
2014 - 2014 Support to the EU Delegation in Bissau for development of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA+) work plan and Action Document: Building Resilience to Climate Change through Enhanced Adaptation and Mitigation Capacities. Consultant to MWH Global.
2013 - 2013 Technical assistance to project PIMS N. 0003977 - GNB 00077229/GEF/UNDP - Strengthening adaptive capacity and resilience to Climate Change in the Agrarian and Water Resources Sectors in Guinea-Bissau. Consultant to UNDP.

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2021/02/03 FAO aponta a falta de recursos humanos como "maior desafio" na gestão do solo em Cabo Verde Inforpress

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2010 - 2020 Expert evaluator of the European Commission: H2020: SPACE-2018-2020; MSCA-IF-2016; SPACE EO-2017, EO-2016, EO-2015, and EO-2014; MSCA-ITN-ETN 2016; Innovative, Sustainable and Inclusive Bioeconomy ISIB-04a-2014. FP7: SPACE-2010, program SICA and International Cooperation.
2010 - 2020 Expert reviewer of REDD+ projects in FP7 and H2020
Distinctions

Award

2016 Award of merit by the Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ADISA)
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ADISA), Portugal

Other distinction

2018 Recognition as a "Woman leader in Fire Science" by MDPI, https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/30/htm
2017 Member of the National Scientific Advisory Board of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy of Portugal (2030). Appointed by the Minister of the Environment of Portugal to support international cooperation.
Ministério do Ambiente, Portugal
2014 Representative of the Tropical Research Institute in the National Board of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal