The main objective of the project is to identify barrier resilience mechanisms, quantify timescales of environmental change and evaluate scenarios of barrier evolution in the Ria Formosa barrier island system.
To assess the resilience, to quantify evolution rates, to identify resilient environments and to estimate mophological evolution under different scenarios
The work is organized in 6 separate tasks involving data collection, integration and analysis, numerical modelling and integration and dissemination of results.
CIMA, University of Algarve
Faculdade de Ciências, University of Lisbon
Centro Ciência Viva de Tavira
The results include data-series, evolution maps and future scenarios, exhibition modules and conceptual resilience scheme for Ria Formosa.
Kombiadou, K., Matias, A., Costas, S., Rita Carrasco, A., Plomaritis, T. A., & Ferreira, Ó. (2020) Barrier island resilience assessment: Applying the ecological principles to geomorphological data, CATENA 194, 104755, doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2020.104755 | Full paper [link]
Abstract
Applying the ecological resilience principles to barrier island geomorphological evolution requires approaches that perceive and interpret resilience far from predefined barrier characteristics and s…
One chapter and two journal articles with results from the project were recently published
The EVREST team is happy to anounce that one chapter and two journal publications, deriving from the project, were recently out!
Find out more on the Deliverables page, or view the publications directly:
Carrasco, A.R. & Matias, A. (2019). “Backbarrier shores along the Ria Formosa lagoon”. In: Aníbal, J., Gomes, A., Mendes, I., Moura, D. (eds.), Ria Formosa: challenges of a coastal lagoon in a changing environment. 1st edition. University of Algarve, Faro, ISBN 978-989-8859-72-3, pp. 17-28 | Full p…
Four papers with results from the project were recently published
The EVREST team is happy to anounce that four journal publications, deriving from the project, were recently out!
Find out more on the Deliverables page, or view the publications directly:
Kombiadou, K., Costas, S., Carrasco, A.R., Plomaritis, T.A., Ferreira, Ó., Matias, A., 2019. Bridging the gap between resilience and geomorphology of complex coastal systems. Earth-Science Reviews, 102934 | Full paper [link]
Carrasco, A.R., 2019. Simple assessment of spatio-temporal evolution of salt marshes ecological services. Frontiers…
Project results of “Recurso à dança criativa e storytelling para a comunicação de ciência” were presented in the 6º Congresso SciCom PT|2018 that was held in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal, between 10 and 12 October 2018. The poster can be found here.
The conference gathered science communicators mostly from Portugal, but also from Spain and Brazil. The book of abstracts can be found here.
The event was widely covered by photos (link)
and broadcasted on the regional news (link)
Open Lecture by Professor Gerd Masselink from the University of Plymouth, scientific consultant of the EVREST project:
“Variability in the north-east Atlantic wave climate and its influence on annual-to-decadal beach dynamics”
The lecture is organised in the framework of the MSc program ‘Marine and Coastal Systems’ of the University of Algarve and will take place on Thursday, September 27, 2018, 14.00-15.00, at the Pedagogical Complex, Amphitheater A, Ualg Campus of Gambelas, Faro