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Benedita Alexandre Milheiro Santos

Profesora Asistente

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Áreas de Investigación y de Interés: - Cambio Climático: - Áreas de Montañas (Temperaturas y Nieve) - Efectos en los Espacios Urbanos (Islas de Calor Urbano, Eficiencia Energética) - Energías Renovables

Educación

  •  Geografía Física, UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA. España, 2016
  •  Geografía Física, UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA. España, 2009
  •  Geografía Física y Ordenamiento Territorial, Universidade de Lisboa. Portugal, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesora Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Geografía

    Concepción , Chile

    2018 - At present

  •   Profesora Instructora Full Time

    Universidad Católica de Temuco

    Ciencias Ambientales

    Temuco, Chile

    2017 - 2018

  •   Becaria Pre-Doctoral Full Time

    Universidad de Barcelona

    Facultad de Historia y Geografía

    Barcelona, España

    2007 - 2011

Formación de Capital Humano


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL:

• Physical Geography (University of Barcelona, collaboration) 2007/2011
• Climatic Geomorphology (University of Barcelona, collaboration) 2007/2011
• Geography of Coastal Areas (Catholic University of Temuco, teacher in charge) 2017
• Bioecology & Biogeography (Catholic University of Temuco, teacher in charge) 2017
• Management of Hydrographic Basins (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2018
• Assessment and Management of Natural Resources (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2018
• Hydrology (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2018/2019/2020
• Mountain Geography & Cryospheric Environments (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2018/19
• Introduction to Renewable Energies (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2018/2019
• Fundaments of the Natural Environments (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2019/2020
• Natural Environments of the Globe (University of Concepción, teacher in charge) 2019

POSTGRADUATE LEVEL:

• Mountainous Landscapes & Natural Systems Dynamics (University of Barcelona, collaboration) 2007/11
• Mountain Systems (University of Concepción, collaboration) 2018/2020
• Geographic Information & Innovation Technologies (University of Concepción, collaboration) 2019

RECENT TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS:

- Apr. 2020 – Online Teaching with CANVAS & Teams, University of Concepción, Chile
- Jul. 2018 – Python Workshop held at UdeC, Concepción, Chile (35h)
- Nov. 2017: Exploitation of Sentinel data with open source software tools provided by ESA. Coordinated by Dr. Chris Stewart from ESA/ESRIN. Held at the UCT, Temuco, Chile.
- May - June 2017: ArcGIS Pro. from MappingGIS (60h)
- March - April 2017: ArcGIS from MappingGIS (50h)

TRAININGS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:

- Granted training at ESA (European Space Agency) Summer School in Fracasti, Italy for 2 weeks in 2012.

- Granted training at NASA - GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center), Cryospheric Science Branch in Maryland, USA for 6 months in 2011;

- Granted training at NASA - GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center), Cryospheric Science Branch in Maryland, USA for 5 months in 2010;

- Granted training at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada) in Granada, Spain for 2 months in 2009;

- Granted training at the IGOT (Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território) in Lisbon, Portugal for 3 months in 2008;


Difusión y Transferencia


MEETINGS CONTRIBUTIONS:

* Poster presentation entitled: “14 hydrological years of snow frequency maps in Sierra Nevada” presented at the International Mountain Conference, held at the Innsbruck University, Austria, from the 8th to the 10th of September, 2019.

* Oral communication entitled: “Land and Snow Surface Temperature dynamics in Sierra Nevada (Spain) through 14 hydrological years of satellite data analysis” presented at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) International Meeting, held in New Orleans, USA, from the 10th to the 14th April, 2018.

* Poster presentation entitled: “Assessment of snow cover in Sierra Nevada (Spain) analyzing the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) between 2000 and 2014” presented at the South America Water from Space Conference, held in Santiago de Chile, Chile, from the 26 to the 29th of March, 2018.

* Oral Communication entitled: “Teledetección aplicada a la evolución térmica y nival de Sierra Nevada, España” presented at the SELPER International Meeting, held at the Catholic University of Temuco, Chile, from the 13th to the 17th November, 2017.

* Poster presentation entitled: “Monitoring ice masses degradation using Landsat Imagery” presented at the ESA-ESRIN Earth Observation Summer School, held in Frascati, Italy, from the 29th of July to the 10th of August, 2012.

* Oral communication entitled: “Estimación de la cubierta nival en Sierra Nevada a partir de imágenes Landsat” presented at the XII National Meeting of Geomorphology, held in Santander, Spain, from the 17th to the 20th of September, 2012.

* Oral communication entitled: “Snow Cover and Land Surface Temperature in Sierra Nevada, Spain” presented at the Cryospheric Science Branch, GSFC, NASA in Maryland, USA, August 12th, 2011.

* Oral communication entitled: “Land Surface Temperature in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Comparison of two atmospheric corrections for the thermal band of Landsat 7 imagery” presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), held in Seattle, USA, from the 11th to the 16th of April, 2011.

* Poster presentation entitled: “Land Surface Temperature in Sierra Nevada Using Landsat 7 Imagery” presented at the XIV National Congress of Geographical Information Systems, held in Seville, Spain, from the 13th to the 17th of September, 2010.

* Oral communication entitled: “Snow Cover and Land Surface Temperature in Sierra Nevada, Spain” presented at Cryospheric Science Branch, GSFC, NASA, in Maryland, USA, on July 12th, 2010.

* Poster entitled: “Comportamento nival na Serra Nevada através de imagens Landsat 7 – (periodo 2007-2008)” presented at the II Ibero-American Seminar of Physical Geography, held in Coimbra, Portugal, from the 26th to the 30th of May, 2010.

* Poster entitled: “Cubierta nival y temperaturas de superficie en Sierra Nevada a través del tratamiento digital de imágenes Landsat 7 (avance preliminar: periodo 2007-2008)” presented at the II Iberian Conference of the International Permafrost Association (IPA), held in Sigüenza, Spain, from the 21st to the 24th of June, 2009.

CURRENTLY WRITING:

SANTOS, B. M.; CRISTÓBAL ROSSELLÓ, J.; HALL, D. K.; GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F. & SALVÀ CATARINEU, M. (----) - Snow cover dynamics in Sierra Nevada between 2000 and 2014 using Landsat time series imagery. (To be submitted)

SANTOS, B. M.; CRISTÓBAL ROSSELLÓ, J.; HALL, D. K.; GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F. & SALVÀ CATARINEU, M. (----) - Land and Snow Surface Temperature dynamics in Sierra Nevada through 14 hydrological years of satellite data analysis. (To be submitted)

PUBLISHED:

SANTOS, B. M. (2016) - Cubierta nival y temperaturas de superficie en Sierra Nevada a través del tratamiento digital de imágenes de satélite. Tesis Doctoral. Snow cover and Land surface temperature in Sierra Nevada through digital analysis of satellite images. Departamento de Geografía, Facultat de Geografía i Historia, Universitat de Barcelona, 260 pp.

SANTOS, B. M.; GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; CRISTÓBAL ROSSELLÓ, J.; HALL, D. K.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M. & SALVADOR FRANCH, F. (2012) – Estimación de la cubierta nival en sierra Nevada partir de imágenes Landsat. Snow Cover Assessment in Sierra Nevada through Landsat Images. Avances de la Geomorfología en España 2010-2012. Proceedings from the XII Geomorphology National Meeting, Santander. http://www.segsantander2012.unican.es/Documentacion/images/978-84-86116-54-5_avances.pdf

MILHEIRO SANTOS, B. M.; GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M. & SALVADOR FRANCH, F. (2010) – Cubierta nival y temperaturas de superficie en Sierra Nevada a partir del tratamiento digital de imágenes LANDSAT 7. Avance preliminar periodo: 2007-2008. Snow cover and land surface temperatures in Sierra Nevada through Landsat images. Preliminary results: 2007-2008. Ambientes periglaciares, permafrost y variabilidad climática. II Encuentro Ibérico de la International Permafrost Association (IPA), Sigüenza. Publicaciones Universidad de Alcalá. ISBN: 978-84-9138-885-5, pp. 69-78.

MILHEIRO SANTOS, B. M.; GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F. & SALVÀ CATARINEU, M. (2010) – Comportamento nival na Serra Nevada através de imágens Landsat 7 (periodo 2007-2008). II Ibero-American Seminary in Physical Geography. University of Coimbra, Portugal. http://www.uc.pt/fluc/cegot/VISLAGF/actas/ind2/

GÓMEZ, A.; OLIVA, M.; SALVADOR, F.; SALVÀ, M.; MILHEIRO, B.; PLANA, J. A.; ESPINAR, M.; GOMEZ, S. & SERRANO, D. (2013) - La geografía de Sierra Nevada en los libros de época: aportaciones del siglo XIX y el descubrimiento del glaciarismo. The geography of Sierra Nevada through historic books: contributions from the XIX century and the discovery of the glaciarism. Book Chapter: M. Pilar Tresaco, J. Vicente y M. (Eds.), De Julio Verne a la actualidad: la palabra y la tierra. Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Zaragoza, pp. 423-438. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/libro?codigo=555212

GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; OLIVA, M.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M.; MILHEIRO SANTOS, B.; PLANA CASTELLVÍ, A.; ESPINAR MORENO, M.; GARCIA RUIZ, A. L.; SANCHEZ GOMEZ, S. & SERRANO, D. (2012) – El paisaje reciente de Sierra Nevada. Documentos escritos de época y significado geográfico de la Pequeña Edad del Hielo. The contemporaneous landscape of Sierra Nevada. Geographical meaning of the Little Ice Age through historic documents. Nimbus, ISSN 1139-7136, 29-30: 305-319. http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=4376848

GOMEZ ORTIZ, A., OLIVA FRANGANILLO, M., SALVADOR FRANCH, F., PALACIOS ESTREMERA, D., TANARRO, L. M., SALVÀ CATARINEU, M., MILHEIRO SANTOS, B., SERRANO GINÉ, D. (2012) – Paisajes de cumbres de Sierra Nevada: el valor patrimonial de sus relieves y modelados. Summits of Sierra Nevada: the patrimonial value of its geomorphological landforms. Avances de la Geomorfología en España 2010-2012. Proceedings from the XII Geomorphology National Meeting, Santander, Spain. http://www.segsantander2012.unican.es/Documentacion/images/978-84-86116-54-5_avances.pdf

GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F.; SANJOSE BLASCO, J. J.; PALACIOS ESTREMERA, D.; OLIVA FRANGANILLO, M.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M.; TANARRO, L. M.; RASO NADAL, J. M.; ATKISON GORSO, A.; SCHULTE, L.; JOSÉ A. PLANA CASTELLVÍ; MILHEIRO SANTOS, B. & SERRANO, D. (2012) – Degradación de hielo fósil y permafrost y cambio climático en Sierra Nevada. Climate Change and the degradation of fossil ice and permafrost in Sierra Nevada. Book Chapter: L. Ramírez & B. Asensio (eds.). Proyectos de investigación en parques nacionales: 2008-2011. Colección Naturaleza y Parques Nacionales. Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales., Editores: Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente. Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-8014-834-4. www.researchgate.net/publication/245025175

GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F.; OLIVA FRANGANILLO, M.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M.; MILHEIRO SANTOS, B.; JOSÉ A. PLANA CASTELLVÍ; MANUEL ESPINAR MORENO; SEBASTIÁN SÁNCHEZ GÓMEZ & DAVID SERRANO GINÉ (2011) - Los Paisajes De La Pequeña Edad Del Hielo En Sierra Nevada (España) Y El Interés Científico De La Documentación De Época. Aportación Al Conocimiento De La Historia De La Geografía Española. The Little Ice Age landscapes in Sierra Nevada (Spain) and the scientific meaning of historic documents. Regional Conference of International Geographical Union. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/245024813

GÓMEZ ORTIZ, A.; SALVADOR FRANCH, F.; SALVÀ CATARINEU, M.; MILHEIRO SANTOS, B.; OLIVA FRANGANILLO, M. (2010) – Paisajes de interés científico y cultural en el Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada (España). II Ibero-American Seminary in Physical Geography. University of Coimbra, Portugal. http://www.uc.pt/fluc/cegot/VISLAGF/actas/ind5/

GÓMEZ, A.; MILHEIRO, B.; SERRANO, D. (2008) - Aguas, nieves e hielos en los paisajes de Sierra Nevada. El interés de la información gráfica de los libros de época. Water, Snow and Ice in Sierra Nevada Landscapes. The interest of the graphic information in the historic books. Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, ISSN 1133-2190, n. 65, Segon Congrés Catalá de Geografia, Barcelona. http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSCG/article/view/37521/37504

GÓMEZ, A.; MILHEIRO, B.; SERRANO, D. (2008) – Nieves, hielos y aguas en los paisajes de Sierra Nevada: el interés de la información gráfica de los libros de época. Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica. Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, España. ISSN 0211-6820, n. 34, pp. 101-118. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2762777