XV Portuguese Conference of Polar Sciences (XVCPCP)

Instituto Superior Técnico

3rd of November of 2023
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

9:00h Welcome
Professors João Canário and Zita Martins – Chairs of the XV CPCP
Professor José Lopes – President of Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), IST
Professor Teresa Duarte – President of the Department of Chemical Engineering (DEQ), IST
Professor Rogério Colaço – President of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Professor Cecília Rodrigues – Vice-Rector of Universidade de Lisboa
Professor Madalena Alves – President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

9:30h The COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition: Western Antarctic Peninsula Coastal

Environments under a Changing Climate
Gonçalo Vieira

9:45h Keynote 1 – Polar Research: the bridge to Space Research

Jean-Pierre de Vera

Session 1: Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences

Chairs: Zita Martins and Diogo Gonçalves

10:15h Spectroscopic Methods to Identify Biosignatures: Analysing Arctic Ice Samples as

Models for Icy Moons
Francisco Calapez, et.al.

10:30h Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session 2: Cryosphere
Chairs: Gonçalo Vieira and Pedro Freitas

11:00h Cryogrid potential for modelling permafrost temperature in Maritime Antarctica

(Barton Peninsula, King George Island)
Joana Baptista, et.al.
11:15h 70 years of shoreline change dynamics (1950-2020) in the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula,
Beaufort Sea, Canada
Bernardo Costa, et al.

Session 3: Social and Human

Chairs: Pedro Quinteiro and Santiago Villalobos

11:30h Portugal and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings: 10 years and counting
José Xavier, et.al.

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11:45h How Perceived Social Isolation, Paranoid Thinking, and Reflexivity Shape Team
Performance in Antarctica Wintering Teams
Pedro Quinteiro, et al.
12:00h Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Portuguese Polar research
Teresa Cabrita, et al.
12:15h Early Career Researchers as ambassadors of Polar Literacy: the importance of
education and outreach
Joana Fragão et al.

12:30h Lunch

14:00h Keynote 2 – Active conservation of the Arctic

John Moore

Session 4: Terrestrial Environment

Chairs: Pedro Pina and Vasco Miranda

14:30h Vegetation mapping since late 1980s using remote sensing and machine learning in
Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica
Vasco Miranda, et.al.
14:45h Mercury in antarctic soils: A comparison between two locations of the South
Shetlands Islands (King George and Deception Islands). Preliminary results
Catarina Louro, et al.
15:00h Characterization and recent dynamics of tundra mosaics in Kangiqsualujjuaq,
Subarctic, Canada
Diana Martins, et al.
15:15h Variation of Optical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter from Two Thermokarst
Lakes in a discontinuous permafrost area (Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec,
Canada)
Leonor Carvalho, et al.
15:30h Insights on the microbial communities involved in the mercury methylation pathway
in two thermokarst lakes from the Canadian Subarctic.
Joana Costa, et al.
15:45h Multi-platform remote sensing for assessing the variability of permafrost thaw lakes
and ponds (Eastern Hudson Bay, Subarctic Canada)
Pedro Freitas, et al.

16:00h Coffee Break and Poster Session

Session 5: Atmospheric
Chairs: Irina Gorodetskaya and Cláudio Alarcón

16:30h Record-breaking temperatures and surface melt over the Antarctic Peninsula in
2022 driven by a compound event with climate change attribution.
Irina Gorodetskaya, et.al.
16:45h Determination of PWV using GNSS at Cierva Cove (Antarctic Peninsula)
R. Fernandes, et al.

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Session 6: Marine Environment
Chairs: Catarina Magalhães and Eva Lopes

17:00h Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni as a bioindicator of trace and rare earth
elements in the Southern Ocean?
José Queirós, et.al.
17:15h Phytoplankton response to climate change in the West Antarctic Peninsula: findings
from a 25-year satellite perspective
Afonso Ferreira, et al.
17:30h Ice Fish's Shield: How Hemoglobin's Absence Battles Mercury in Antarctica
José Seco, et al.
17:45h Monitoring Arctic microbial communities across the Svalbard Shelf
Catarina Magalhães, et al.

18:00h Closing Session

Joana Fragão
Gonçalo Vieira
João Canário
Zita Martins

POSTERS

Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences

Uncovering the Habitability of Titan’s Summer Pole

Poster 1
Diogo Gonçalves, et al.

Cryosphere Sciences

Surface deformation analysis in Coastal Yukon using InSAR: the case of Komakuk.
Poster 2
Matilde Salgueiro, et al.
Automatic mapping of thermokarst lakes in different physical states on the Tibetan
Poster 3 Plateau
Yuanyuan Qin, et al.

Social and Human Sciences

Pairing biodiversity assessments by scientists and tourists: a conceptual framework to

increase data collection and to promote societal environmental awareness and
Poster 4
sensitivity.
Paula Matos, et al.

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 Terrestrial Environment

Role of terminal electron acceptors in the organic matter degradation in three

Poster 5 permafrost thaw lakes in North America: Nunavik and Alaska
João Coelho, et al.
Total mercury and methylmercury dynamics (Mercury methylation and methylmercury
Poster 6 demethylation) in waters from thermokarst lakes in subarctic Canada.
Manuel Soares, et al.
Machine Learning classification of Antarctic vegetation: Methodological generalization
Poster 7 focusing on a latitudinal gradient
Vasco Miranda, et al.
Microscale is key to model Antarctica vegetation under climate change
Poster 8
Paula Matos, et al.
Gradients and hotspots of metal contamination in soils from Fildes peninsula, King
Poster 9 George Island, Antarctica
Rute Cesário, et al.

Atmospheric Sciences

Microbial insights into precipitation composition on the warming Antarctic Peninsula

Poster 10
Ksenija Vučković, et al.
Multi-sensor measurements of snowfall particle size distribution in the Southern
Poster 11 Ocean and coastal Antarctica
Claudio Duran, et al.

Marine Environment

Construction of a dataset of prokaryotic diversity from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard and

Poster 12 Fram Strait
Francisco Pascoal, et al.
Biomagnification of mercury along Southern Ocean foodwebs
Poster 13
José Seco, et al.
THERMAL TOLERANCE AND METABOLIC PHYSIOLOGY IN THE ANTARCTIC GIANT
Poster 14 AMPHYPOD Paraceradocus miersi UNDER SIMULATED HEATWAVE CONDITIONS
Kurt Paschke, Pedro Guerreiro, et al.
ANTARCTIC-D-LIGTH: WILL PHOTOPERIOD AND TEMPERATURE ASYNCHRONY AFFECT
Poster 15 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ANTARCTIC FISH?
Pedro Guerreiro, et al.
LIFE ON R/V MIRAI: A PORTUGUESE PHD STUDENT ON A JAPANESE VESSEL
Poster 16
Eva Lopes, et al.

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