Carla Mora

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.

Projetos em curso

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

PERMAMERC - Biogeoquímica e impacto do mercúrio em áreas de degradação de permafrost

HAZARDOUS - Avaliação de riscos associados à formação e evolução de fajãs detríticas e lávicas nos arquipélagos vulcânicos portugueses

Artigo em revista

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://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://https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107781

Miranda, Vasco; Pina, Pedro; Heleno, Sandra; Vieira, Gonçalo; Mora, Carla; E.G.R. Schaefer, Carlos. 2020. «Monitoring recent changes of vegetation in Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Antarctica) through satellite imagery guided by UAV surveys». Science of The Total Environment 704 135295 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135295 https://http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135295

De Pablo, M.A.; Jiménez, J.J.; Ramos, M.; Prieto, M.; Molina, A.; Vieira, G.; Hidalgo, M.A.; et al. 2020. «Frozen ground and snow cover monitoring in Livingston and Deception islands, Antarctica: preliminary results of the 2015-2019 PERMASNOW project». Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 46 (1) 187-222 Espanha. 10.18172/cig.4381 https://http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/cig.4381

Lousada, M.; Pina, P.; Vieira, G.; Bandeira, L.; Mora, C.. 2018. «Evaluation of the use of very high resolution aerial imagery for accurate ice-wedge polygon mapping (Adventdalen, Svalbard)». Science of the Total Environment 615 1574-1583 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.153 https://http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029740041&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Capítulo de livro

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

Livro

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://http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887291099&partnerID=MN8TOARS