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Dr A. Rita Carrasco (f), is a researcher and part of the coordination board of the Centre for Marine and Environmental Research of the University of Algarve. She is currently responsible for coordinating the scientific objective Obj.3-Assessing and Mitigating global risks. She is teaching at UALG since 2019, in the disciplines of climate change impacts in coastal systems, and marine geochemistry. She holds an MSc. degree in Water and Coastal Management (in 2006) and a PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences (in 2012). Her main topic is coastal geomorphology, and her research interests triggered the physical and ecological interactions occurring in wetlands. In the framework of her doctoral thesis, she studied the physical processes that control the sediment dynamics of estuarine environments. Between 2015 and 2016, she was a visiting researcher at Delft UNESCO-IHE to explore modelling solutions to implement coupled circulation-sediment transport model for the Ria Formosa lagoon. Her investigation is now focused on understanding the biogeomorphologic adaptation and resilience of coastal wetlands to climate change, and the means to provide well-functioning ecosystems. She is interested in salt marsh restoration strategies and in optimizing wetlands-based solutions. Through her research activities, she developed collaborative relationships with researchers from national and international institutions. She was involved in 18 national/international projects, covering a wide range of scientific topics such as beach morphodynamics, estuarine evolution, inlet dynamics, storm impacts, coastal modelling and management, biodiversity and coastal conservation. She is currently participating in 5 research projects about natural hazards, coastal geomorphology and ecology, natural decarbonization in marsh habitats, and in LIFE Action Grant about ecosystems conservation, as an investigator. She published her findings in 2 book chapters, and 35 international journals, including top journals in earth sciences (e.g. Sci. Rep., Earth-Sci. Rev., and Sci. Total Environ.), 15 of these publications were led by her. She has participated in 54 international and national conferences, as author or co-author of peer-reviewed abstracts. Currently, she is part of the EKLIPSE EKlipse - Expert Working Group Building resilient coastal communities through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and Empowerment Tools, science officer of the EGU division on Geomorphology, and member of the EGU Biodiversity task force.
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