SANDRA OLIVEIRA
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Geographer, graduated by the University of Coimbra in 2002. In 2003, while teaching in secondary schools, she took the post-graduate course in Land Use Management and Environmental Planning by the New University of Lisbon. In 2004-2005, she took her M.Sc. in Environmental Science in the University of Wollongong, Australia. In mid 2005, back in Portugal, she worked for the Agência para a Prevenção de Incêndios Florestais, in Miranda do Corvo, developing research in fire risk and carrying out technical work in GIS for forest fire prevention. In 2006, she joined the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) of the University of Lisbon as a research scholar for the UrbKlim project, dealing with topics related to urban climatology, where she stayed until the end of 2008. Since February 2009, she is working as a research scientist in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, in Italy, and maintains the collaboration with the
research group on Climate and Environmental Changes (CliMA) of the CEG, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon.

Main research interests: Applied physical geography, environmental science, climatology, forest fires.

PUBLICATIONS

International peer-reviewed journals & book chapters

Lopes, A., Oliveira, S., Fragoso, M., Andrade, J.A., Pedro. P. (2009) – “Wind risk assessment in urban environments: the case of falling trees during windstorm events in Lisbon”. In: Strelcová, K.; Matyas, C.; Kleidon, A.; Lapin, M.; Matejka, F.; Blazenec, M.; Škvarenina, J.; Holecy, J. (Eds.) Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, Springer:55-74

Oliveira, S., Andrade, H. (2007) - An initial assessment of the climatic comfort in an outdoor public space of Lisbon. International Journal of Biometeorology, 52 (1):69-84

National peer-reviewed journals & book chapters

2009
Oliveira, S., Fernandes, P. (2009) - Regeneration of Pinus and Quercus after fire in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: natural mechanisms and management practices. Silva Lusitana 17(2):181-192

Proceedings from international and national conferences

Oliveira, S., Camia, A., San-Miguel Ayanz, J. (2009). “First steps towards a long-term forest fire risk of Europe”. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS applications in Forest Fire Management (EarseL), Matera, Itália 2008

Oliveira S, Andrade H, Alcoforado MJ, Vaz T (2008). O contributo potencial dos espaços verdes para a adaptação às alterações climáticas nas cidades. O exemplo de dois jardins de Lisboa. Proceedings of the 1st Congress on Climate Change, Aveiro, Portugal, 29-30 September 2008 (poster)

Oliveira S, Andrade H, Alcoforado MJ (2008) The assessment of the bioclimatic comfort in different outdoor open spaces of Lisbon. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Biometeorology, Tokyo, 22-26 September 2008

Andrade H, Alcoforado MJ, Oliveira S (2008) Relations between Personal characteristics and bioclimatic comfort. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Biometeorology, Tokyo,22-26 September 2008

Lopes A, Oliveira S, Silva FM, Saraiva J (2008) Assessment of thermal and mechanical comfort of people based on wind tunnel experiments. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Biometeorology, Tokyo, 22-26 September 2008

Oliveira S, Vaz T, Andrade H (2008) “Microclimatic conditions of the garden Teófilo de Braga (Lisbon) and its influence in the surrounding area”, Proceedings of the International Conference “Cities and Climate Change. What future?”, 15-16 May 2008

(poster) Andrade H, Alcoforado MJ, Oliveira S (2007) Methodologies to assess the effects of climate in tourism: weather types and individual perception. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Climate, Tourism and Recreation, Alexandroupolis, Grécia, 19-22 September 2007

Lopes A, Oliveira S, Fragoso M, Andrade JA, Pedro P (2007) “Wind risk assessment in urban environments: the case of falling trees during windstorm events in Lisbon”. In: Strelcová, K., Skvarenina, J. & Blazenec, M. (eds.): Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, International Scientific Conference (Proceedings), Pol’ana nad Detvou, Eslováquia, 17-20 September 2007

2006
Andrade H, Oliveira S, Alcoforado MJ (2006) A first assessment of the climatic comfort in an open urban area of Lisbon. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Urban Ecology in Berlin, 15, 16 September 2006, Berlin, Germany


Other publications

Alcoforado, M.J., Andrade, H., Fragoso, M., Lopes, A., Lombardo, M., Matzarakis, A., Oliveira, S.eds. (2008). Estudos sobre Cidades e Alterações Climáticas (Studies about cities and climate change). Área de Investigação em Geo-Ecologia, Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa, 8: 108 p.

Alcoforado, M.J., Andrade, H., Lopes, A., Oliveira, S. (2007). The urban heat island of Lisbon. Data acquisition and initial results. In: “Geophilia,o sentir e os sentidos da Geografia”, Homenagem a Jorge Gaspar, Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon: 593-602