The XV Portuguese Conference of Polar Sciences, held at Instituto Superior Técnico on November 3, brought together the national scientific community to present recent advances in Arctic and Antarctic research ❄. During this edition, master and PhD students involved in the THAWIMPACT project presented their work developed in the Western region of the Antarctic Peninsula. Catarina Louro (IST-ULisboa) and Henrique Zilhão (IST-ULisboa) participated with an oral presentation focusing on the presence of mercury in the soils of King George and Deception Islands. Joana Baptista (IGOT-ULisboa) discussed Cryogrid's potential for modelling permafrost temperatures in Maritime Antarctica, using the Barton Peninsula on King George Island as an example. Vasco Miranda (IST-ULisboa) presented his research on vegetation mapping, spanning from the late 1980s to the present, using remote sensing and machine learning techniques in the Barton Peninsula on King George Island. Comments are closed.
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