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Luis Melo de Almeida
Mr Luis Melo de Almeida - ()
- School of Marine Science and Engineering (Faculty of Science and Technology)
- Address: Room 21, Buckland House, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon,
- Email: luis.melodealmeida@plymouth.ac.uk
Role
PhD student - School of Marine Science and Engineering (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Qualifications & background
- (2002-2007) Bsc Oceanography, University of Algarve (Portugal)
- (2007-2008) Research Assistant at Oceanography Centre (LMG, Cascais - Portugal)
- (2008-2011) Research Assistant at University of Algarve (CIMA, Faro - Portugal)
- (2009-2011) Msc Geomatics, University of Algarve (Portugal)
Research interests
- Storm nearshore hydrodynamics and morphodynamics
- Remote sensing
- GIS
- Field survey
Grants & contracts
- 2011 - FLAD-IMAR Luiz Saldanha/Ken Tenore grant: 3 months at the FRF USACE, Duck (NC - USA)
Publications
PAPERS IN REFEREED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:
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Almeida, L.P., Vousdoukas, M.I., Ferreira, Ó., Rodrigues, B., Matias, A..Thresholds for storm impacts on a sandy exposed coastal area. Geomorphology (in press - DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.047).
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Almeida, L. P., Ferreira, Ó., Vousdoukas, M., Dodet, G., 2011. Historical variation and trends in storminess along the Portuguese South Coast. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (doi:10.5194/nhess-11-2407-2011).
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Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, O, Taborda, R., 2011. Geoprocessing tool to model beach erosion due to storms: application to Faro beach (Portugal). Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64, 1830-1834.
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Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, Ó., Pacheco, A. (2010). Thresholds for morphological changes as a function of wave height on a sandy exposed beach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (In press – http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.2072/full).
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Vousdoukas, M.I., Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, O., (submitted). Beach erosion and recovery during consequent storms at a steep-sloping, meso-tidal beach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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Vousdoukas, M.I., Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, O., 2011. Modelling storm-induced beach morphological change in a meso-tidal, reflective beach using XBeach. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 1916-1920.
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Vousdoukas, M.I., Wziatek, D., Almeida, L.P., (in press). Coastal vulnerability assessment based on video wave run-up observations at a mesotidal, steep-sloped beach. Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-011-0480-x.
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Vousdoukas M.I., Ferreira, P.M. Almeida, L.P., Dodet, G., Psaros, F., Andriolo, U., Taborda, R., 2011. Performance of intertidal topography video monitoring of a meso-tidal reflective beach in South Portugal. Ocean Dynamics, 61, 10.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (e.g. published abstracts with oral presentation):
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Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, Ó., Pacheco, A., 2009. Thresholds for morphological changes as a function of wave height on a sandy exposed beach. 4ºth SCACR – International Short Conference on Applied Coastal Research, Barcelona. (oral presentation)
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Almeida, L.P., Vousdoukas, M.V., Ferreira, P.M., Ruano, A.E., Dodet, G., Loureiro, C., Ferreira, Ó., Taborda, R., 2010. Correlating Wave Hindcast and Buoy data with Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings for 1a Jornadas de Engenharia Hidrografica, Lisbon. (oral presentation)
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Almeida, L.P., Ferreira, O, Taborda, R., 2011. Geoprocessing tool to model beach erosion due to storms: application to Faro beach (Portugal). 11th International Coastal Symposium, Szczecin, Poland. (oral presentation)
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Almeida, L.P., Pacheco, A., Vousdoukas, M., Proenca, B., Ferreira, O., Taborda, R., 2011. Development of Early Warning Systems to Storm Events and Mitigation Actions. Jornadas sobre nuevas tecnologias aplicadas a los riesgos naturales en las costas, Santander, Spain. (oral presentation)
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