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Understanding Mineral Dust Through a Doctoral Alliance

We present an example of how a doctoral network can bring together multidisciplinary expertise and novel scientific advances in atmospheric dust. This network (Dust-DN) has started operations and is a strategic alliance of high-profile partners, able to leverage unique facilities for atmospheric research and innovative space missions. The network aims to improve our understandings of dust processes and microphy...

Tourism education in Europe and the road to Net-Zero: Are universities doing en...

The European Union's goal to achieve Net-Zero by 2050 places sustainability pressures on sectors like tourism. Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a critical role in aligning tourism education with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). However, the extent to which European tourism HEIs embed sustainability into curricula remains unclear. This study introduces a multi-dimensional frame...

Requalificação do sistema abaluartado de Campo Maior: da Praça Militar à Praça ...

Coordenado pela professora doutora Sofia Aleixo, o livro "Requalificação do Sistema Abaluartado de Campo Maior: da praça militar à praça pública" apresenta todo o processo que acompanhou a intervenção neste património militar português, numa investigação que acompanhou e registou o processo de projecto, e de implementação em obra, e agora disseminou (numa iniciativa da C.M Campo Maior com a DRCAlentejo) numa ob...

Sleep and Awakening Quality during COVID-19 Confinement: Complexity and Relevan...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep and awakening quality (SQ and AQ) during COVID-19 in a large and diversified population in order to identify significant associations and risks in terms of demography, health and health-related behaviors, sleep variables, mental health, and attitudes. Methods/Results:Online surveys were used for data collection, received from 5479 individuals from the gener...

Atmospheric mercury deposition over Brazil during the past 30,000 years

Atmospheric Hg deposition over Brazil is presented for the past 30,000 years as a tracer of the different naturat and anthropogenic processes affecting the atmospheric environment of Brazil. During most of the prehistoric period, atmospheric deposition rates were rather constant with an average of about 2 pg m-2 yrl. Peak deposition, ranging from 4 to 6 pg mW2 Yi', occurred ai: least during two periods between ...

Particulate heavy metal transport in the lower Para´ıba doSul River basin, sout...

n the present study an attempt has been made to calculate the mass transfers of suspended particulate matter andassociated heavy metal within the lower portion of the Para´ıba do Sul River drainage basin and the contribution ofits tributaries. The highest metal loads were related with the highest water flows and, consequently, with the highestsuspended particulate matter loads, which increased both by surface ru...

Retirement risks: Invasive coral on old oil platform on the Brazilian equatoria...

ensis) in an oil platform on the Brazilian equatorial continental shelf. This structure is located more than 1200 km north from other oil and gas structures colonized by this coral. We also discussed the retirement and decommissioning of old biofouling-encrusted oil and gas platforms (~62 platforms) from decreased production and the current oil crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This presents an ecol...

Deep reefs are not refugium for shallow-water fish communities in the southwest...

Community Ecology and Biomonitoring in IRES

Intermittent rivers and Ephemeral Streams (IRES) are river water bodies characterised by temporary flow. They are widespread across the EU and a significant proportion of them is expected to increase due to climate change scenarios and rising water demands. The purpose of this handbook is to help water managers to understand the natural processes prevailing in IRES and their importance for biodiversity and loca...

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation through online media, followed by two workshops through which a large number of potential science questions were collated, prioritised, and synthesised. In spite of the diversity of the par...