Carla Mora

Education

2006, Doutoramento, Geografia Física, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras
1998, Mestrado, Geografia Física e Ambiente, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras
1994, Licenciatura, Geografia (Ensino de), Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and Head of the Research Group on…

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon and Head of the Research Group on Climate Change and Environmental Systems (ZEPHYRUS) of the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon. Carla Mora has a PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Lisbon (2005) on mountain climatology. Her research interests focus on mountain climates, remote sensing of snow and vegetation, and on the effects of climate change on permafrost environments. She has participated in various research projects in the Antarctic Peninsula, the Arctic (Svalbard and Canada), Morocco and Cape Verde, as well as in Portugal. Carla Mora is principal investigator of the project THAWPOND on remote sensing of permafrost thaw lakes in northern Quebec. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Estrela UNESCO Global Geopark, where coordinates group on research and education on climate change.

Ongoing Projects

THAWIMPACT - Antarctic Peninsula permafrost under a changing climate: sensitivity, fate and impacts

HAZARDOUS - Evaluating hazards related to the formation and development of detrital and lavic “fajãs” in the Portuguese volcanic archipelagos

Last publications

Journal article

Pedro Freitas; Vieira, Gonçalo; João Canário; Warwick F. Vincent; Pedro Pina; Mora, Carla. Autor correspondente: Pedro Freitas. 2024. «A trained Mask R-CNN model over PlanetScope imagery for very-high resolution surface water mapping in boreal forest-tundra». Remote Sensing of Environment 304 (114047) 1-23 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114047

Pedro Freitas; Gonçalo Vieira; Carla Mora; João Canário; Warwick F. Vincent. 2022. «Vegetation shadow casts impact remotely sensed reflectance from permafrost thaw ponds in the subarctic forest-tundra zone». Environmental Earth Sciences 10.1007/s12665-022-10640-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-022-10640-1

Freitas, Pedro; Gonçalo Teles Vieira; Mora, Carla; Canário, João. 2022. «Vegetation shadow casts impact remotely sensed reflectance from permafrost thaw ponds in the Subarctic forest-tundra zone, Research Square». Environmental Earth Sciences https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1604397/v1

Gonçalo Vieira; Carla Mora; Pedro Pina; Ricardo Ramalho; Rui Fernandes. 2021. «UAV-based very high resolution point cloud, digital surface model and orthomosaic of the Chã das Caldeiras lava fields (Fogo, Cabo Verde)». Earth System Science Data 10.5194/essd-13-3179-2021 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3179-2021

2021. «Penultimate Glacial Cycle glacier extent in the Iberian Peninsula: New evidence from the Serra da Estrela (Central System, Portugal)». Geomorphology 388 (107781) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107781

Book chapter

Mora, Carla; Vieira, Gonçalo. 2020. «Climate of Portugal». in Landscapes and Landforms of Portugal 33-47 Springer

Book

Mora, C.; Vieira, G.; Ramos, M.. 2013. «Evaluation of Envisat ASAR IMP imagery for snow mapping at varying spatial resolution (Deception Island, South Shetlands - Antarctica)». 381 10.1144/SP381.19 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887291099&partnerID=MN8TOARS