Marc OLIVA (Principal Investigator)
Marc Oliva is a post-doc researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon. He finished his PhD in 2009 at the University of Barcelona with a dissertation about present and past dynamics of periglacial processes in Sierra Nevada (Southern Spain). Since 2010, within the AntECC research group, his research is focused on the Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution in permafrost environments (Antarctica and Svalbard). He has carried out research activities on cold-climate geomorphological processes and permafrost degradation in other mountain ranges (Pyrenees, Alps, Rocky Mountains).
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Gonçalo VIEIRA
Assistant Professor, Head of AntECC Research Group. PhD in Physical Geography at the University of Lisbon and coordinator of AntECC (Antarctic Environments and Climate Change). His research interests focus in the geomorphodynamics of polar and mountain environments and the control of climate change. Gonçalo collaborates since 1999 in research projects in the Antarctic. He is Co-Chair of SCAR Expert Group on Permafrost and Periglacial Environments, national representative at the European Polar Board, national contact for the International Polar Year, as well as national representative at the International Permafrost Association and International Association on Cryospheric Sciences . |
Carla MORA
Post-doc Researcher Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies and PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Lisbon. Her research interests focus on mountain climatology, remote sensing of snow and on the effects of climate change on permafrost. Her PhD focussed at the serra da Estrela (Central Portugal), where she studied local climatology. Collaborates since 2005 on research projects concerning permafrost and climate change in the Maritime Antarctic. Her work is focussing in the remote sensing of snow cover and on the influence of snow on the ground temperature regime in the South Shetlands (Antarctic Peninsula). |
Alexandre TRINDADE
Alexandre is PhD student in Physical Geography at the Institute of Geography and Land Management, working on the analysis of relict slope deposits in Serra da Estrela Mountain, Portugal and a researcher of the Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon. Has a MS in Physical Geography on the thermal regime of the active layer and permafrost in the Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). His research interests focus on geomorphodynamics of polar and mountain environments. He participated in five Antarctic campaigns between 2006 and 2012 with the Bulgarian, Brazilian and North-American Antarctic Expeditions and in one in the Arctic in Adventdalen and Sassendalen, Svalbard. Alexandre is the one of the co-founders of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the new PYRN president. |
Dermot ANTONIADESDermot Antoniades is an Adjunct Professor in the Sección Limnología at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. His PhD research, completed at the University of Toronto, dealt with limnology, diatom ecology and paleolimnology in lakes and ponds of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. He has since worked with applications of fossil pigments and sediment geochemistry to Holocene paleoenvironmental problems in both polar regions, and studied eutrophication in subtropical lakes.
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Luis GALAN
Luis Galan is a geologist. He is working in the Core Logging Laboratory of Geological Mining Institute of Spain (IGME). Since 2004 he has carried out many research projects about palaeoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution of Cuaternary as the Paleoclimatic Study of Fuentillejo volcanic maar-lake (Ciudad Real, central Spain), as well as collaborations with other research groups in Antarctica (Byers and Deception islands) and in the Iberian Peninsula (Tablas de Daimiel and Guadiana river platform). His research focuses on identifying paleoclimate proxy indicators by the analysis of physical properties of sediment cores. |
Manuel TOROManuel Toro is one of the world leading experts in limnological processes in Antarctic lakes. He has published tens of papers related on these topics, participating in 8 Antarctic campaigns in the Maritime Antarctic. His experience both in Antarctic logistics as well as in organizing field campaigns will be extremely useful for the success of the project. It is expected that he will join the first Antarctic season. He will collaborate in the coring campaign as well as in the limnological characterization of the lakes.
You can find his CV here. David PALACIOS
David Palacios leads the Research Group “Physical Geography of High Mountains Areas”. He has a strong expertise in the environmental reconstruction of formerly glaciated areas both in high mountain regions and in (sub)polar environments. He has led 33 projects related with the effects of climate change and associated geomorphic processes in the Cryosphere. He has investigated the interaction between volcanic activity, deglaciation and permafrost, which fits very well with the research topics of HOLOANTAR-2. He will work on the deglaciation process in JRI based non terrestrial records (task 3). You can find his CV here. |
Santiago GIRALT
Santiago Giralt is a lacustrine sedimentologist working at the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (CSIC) as Tenured Scientist (http://www.ictja.csic.es/~sgiralt). His research is focused on the reconstruction of paleoclimate changes and anthropogenic impacts using high-resolution multi-proxy study of lacustrine sediments with special emphasis on the spatial and temporal evolution high-frequency climate phenomena, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO). For that, he seeks statistical methods for isolating and characterizing these paleoclimate signals from other environmental (tectonic, volcanic and/or anthropogenic) ones. |
Ignacio GRANADOS
Biologist specialized on chironomids working at the Natural Park of Peñalara. He has a wide experience in long-term monitoring of mountain lakes with field dataloggers, periodical samplings and paleolimnology. This multi-temporal scale is used as a tool for evaluating lakes restoration and management practices, although these long-term series also improve our knowledge of the response of aquatic ecosystems to global change. In addition to his research in Central Range (Spain) he has also participated in polar lakes research in Antarctica. He is specialist in chironomids, including the sub-fossil remains in the sediment as a biological proxy in paleolimnological studies. |
Sergi PLAEcologist specialised in diatoms and chrysophyte cysts. His main research field is the study long-term records (palaeolimnological) from freshwater organisms. He is interested to understand the role of space-time interactions for structuring biotic communities, and therefore to assess ecosystem sensitivity to environmental variability. The study of long-term biological records are increasing the accuracy of palaeolimnolgical reconstructions (e.g. climate) and improve the prediction of future climate scenarios, but also could be used to develop ecological theory and understand ecosystems responses to Global change. He has been working in freshwater ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula (Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de La Estela, Doñana), Finland (Lapland), Norway, Scotland Highlands, Ireland, Canada (Ontario and Nova Scotia), Africa (Morocco and Uganda rift valley crater lakes) and Polar lakes (Greenland and Maritime Antarctica). He has worked in Ecology department in the UB (Spain), ECRC (UcL, UK), ENSIS.ltd (UK), PEARL (Queens niversity,Canada), Loughborough University (UK) and CEAB-CSIC (Spain).
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Miguel RAMOS
Miguel RAMOS was born on the 28th October 1958 and is currently Professor at the Department of physics in the University of Alcalá (Spain). He concluded his 5-year degree in fundamental physics in 1980, earned his MSc in 1981 and his PhD on 1984 on the thermal devices applied to the solar energy absorption. His research activities are currently developed through the University of Alcalá and the Spanish polar program. His main scientific interests are currently related to the characterization of polar permafrost, through the multidisciplinary use of, Physical and Mathematical Modeling, Data Analysis and Spatial Statistics methods. His participation activities, past and ongoing, are related to 25 national and international research projects and networks; in 20 of them as Principal Investigator (PI). Presently, he is the PI of two projects on the study of the permafrost and its relation with the climate change in the peninsula Antarctica region and it is (CO-I) in the REMS (Rover Environmental monitoring Station) project that is and instrument included in the Mars Science laboratory NASA mission. He has published about 44 papers in international and national journals and chapters of books and more than 65 papers in proceedings of conferences. He is a regular reviewer for several international journals and a member of the scientific committees of international and national conferences mainly in the field polar permafrost and cryospheric sciences. |
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Jesús Ruiz Fernández
PhD in Physical Geography. Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He has written several publications on natural landscape and biogeography of eastern Asturias, as well as on glacial and periglacial geomorphology in the Picos de Europa National Park. He has also conducted geomorphological research in the Calatrava volcanic area. He has participated in the organization of conferences and seminars and presented results in several national and international conferences.
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António CORREIA (consultant)António Correia, from the University of Évora (Portugal), has a large experience with geoelectrical surveying in many areas of the world. He has been collaborating with the AntECC research group for the last few years. Several national and international publications show evidence of the outstanding results achieved. In the framework of HOLOANTAR field work activities, and under his coordination, we will perform electrical resistivity tomography along different transects in selected catchments of Byers Peninsula to better understand the distribution of permafrost regarding altitude, aspect, lake surroundings.
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Enrique SERRANO (consultant)Enrique Serrano, from the University of Valladolid (Spain), is one of the leading world experts on the geomorphology of the South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula. He has participated in various expeditions in the Antarc tic and has visited most of the glacier-free areas of the South Shetlands, with a special focus on the Byers Peninsula. His extremely large experience on geomorphological mapping of periglacial processes and geomorphological processes monitoring will be an important contribution for HOLOANTAR. He will be involved in the field activities where his participation will focus on geomorphological surveying.
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Formerly at Holoantar
João AGRELAJoão Agrela is a Geographer and a Ms Student in Land Managment and Natural Resources at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He was part of the Antecc team with a research fellowship in Project Permantar-2, where he assisted with the campaign logistics and antarctic field work (sensor data colection and maintenance). He assisted in all field activities in the first HOLOANTAR campaing, staying in King George with the Holoantar Team for a month. Having finished the fellowship, he gladly continues to assist Holoantar according to his possibilities, namely with logistical issues and website development and maintenance.
João is a member of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) and of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).
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