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Joana Parente

Pos-Doc at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently working in the project FRISCO: “managing fire-induced risks of water quality contamination” of the Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Modelling – CCIAM group at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. Her research focuses on fire assessment, but currently, she is focused on analyzing the fires impacts on soil erosion and water quality.

The EGU23 bucket list for Natural Hazards Early Career Scientists

April 17, 2023
The EGU23 bucket list for Natural Hazards Early Career Scientists
EGU17 - Flags at EGU General Assembly 2017. Credit: Kai Boggild (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly (GA) is a precious occasion to create new connections and receive new stimuli to feed your own research, specifically for those in the early stages of their career. Nevertheless, the occasions for networking and scientific discussion can be so many, that it could be difficult to choose what to attend. As a junior researcher and early career scie ...[Read More]

Unravelling the Complex Drivers of Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change

and February 27, 2023
Unravelling the Complex Drivers of Wildfires in the Era of Climate Change
Photo credit: Tasnim News Agency (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)

In the last decades, the strength of climate change has been evident across the globe in many weather and climate extremes occurrences, including heatwaves and droughts. Those events are involved in all fire stages and influence all aspects of the fire regime [1].    Climate change is driving unprecedented wildfire in the Mediterranean region  The Mediterranean region is a climate change hots ...[Read More]

Repression Without Resistance: Answering Natural Hazards Related Disasters

June 27, 2022
Repression Without Resistance: Answering Natural Hazards Related Disasters
Extreme weather events

Answering disasters triggered by natural hazards is a profoundly political process; who can tell us about this is Isabelle Desportes with her study cases of Ethiopia (the 2016 drought), Myanmar (cyclone Komen in 2015) and Zimbabwe (the 2016/2019 drought). Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr Isabelle Desportes, a researcher who approaches disaster risk governance from the angle of politic ...[Read More]

Back at in-person conferencing, our experience at the EGU GA 2022

and June 20, 2022
Back at in-person conferencing, our experience at the EGU GA 2022
Multi-Division lunch break at the park nearby the conference centre.

  As part of the NH Division blog editorial team, we, Joana and Shreya, describe our experience at the EGU General Assembly (GA) 2022 (#EGU22), held in the Austria Centre in Vienna, from May 24th-28th. It was the first hybrid conference we attended in-person after two years of the pandemic, with a footfall of more than 7,000 people and about the same number joining virtually. It was an enrich ...[Read More]