Rui Filipe Ferreira de Carvalho, Ldo.
Rui Filipe Ferreira de Carvalho, Ldo.
PhD student
Department of Physical and Regional Geography
University of Barcelona
C/ Montalegre, 6-8
E-08001 Barcelona
Spain
Phone: +34 93 403 75 61
Fax: +34 93 403 45 29
E-mail: arcturus@portugalmail.pt
Filipe Carvalho - Curriculum vitae
| 2006 - 2010 | FPI post graduate fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science |
| 2006 | Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship (European Commission) at the University of Barcelona, Spain. |
| 2002 - 2006 | Degree in Physical Geography at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. |
Research Interests
Quaternary Science, Holocene fluvial deposits, Glacial and periglacial Geomorphology, GIS.
Research areas
River catchments of the Bernese Alps - Switzerland.
PhD Project
"Paleoenvironmental multi-proxy analysis of Holocene fluvial sedimentary records in the Kander catchment (Swiss Alps) - The influence of climatic variability and land use on alpine river systems"
The study of fluvial archives provide important clues to the recent climatic history and the role of human impacts on fluvial environments. My thesis pretends to focus on the identification of the aggradation processes and extreme events occurred in the Kander basin as a result of environmental changes. Furthermore, for the understanding of catchment response, geomorphic system and processes will be modelled.
The research will centre on the following activities: (1) morphological survey; (2) geochemical and sedimentologic analysis of soil samples; (3) creation of a multi-proxy database containing the lithology, geomorphology, pluviometric and thermal distribution, extent of the glacier covered and permafrost region and the land use of the basin area.
Projects
Participation in research projects
2006-2009 Fluvalps-3000 Project. Fluvial variability in the Alps during the last 3000 years: Climate change, land use and associated flood risks CGL2006-01111 (MEC).
Participation in research groups
Fluvalps Research Group - Fluvial Variability in Alpine Environments, University of Barcelona.
"Acção XXI Litoral: Strategy contributions for the Portuguese coastal área", Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Publications
Schulte, L., Julià, R., Oliva, M., Burjachs, F., Veit, H., & Carvalho, F. 2008. Sensitivity of Alpine fluvial environments in the Swiss Alps to climate forcing during the Late Holocene. Sediment Dynamics in Changing Environments (Proceedings of a symposium held in Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2008). IAHS Publ. 325. pp. 367-374.
Schulte, L., Julià, R., Oliva, M., Burjachs, F., Veit, H., & Carvalho, F. 2008.
Sensitivity of Alpine fluvial environments in the Swiss Alps to climate forcing during the Late Holocene.
