Fernando J. A. S. Barriga
Profile
Research Group: RG4 – Continental margins and the deep ocean frontier
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Full Professor
Email: fbarriga@fc.ul.pt
Telephone Number: (351) 91-990-6338
Scientific Informations
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-3356
SCOPUS ID: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7003653867
Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5527-2013
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fernando_Barriga/scores
Scientific Interests
Main Interests:
Fernando Barriga is a full professor of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon and, since 2000, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Very early in his career he elected applied science, in the domain of mineral raw materials, as his main scientific interest. He studied in Canada for his PhD, with WS Fyfe, at a time when the first seafloor hydrothermal fields were discovered. He became deeply involved in the understanding of ancient mineral deposits under the light of active deposits on the present-day seafloor. His PhD thesis was one of the first to follow this line of reasoning. He is a specialist in the genesis of, and the search for, massive sulphide deposits on land and on the seafloor. He was involved in the discovery of several sms deposits in three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic). Fernando has participated in many cruises at sea (total in excess of 9 months), including serving as co-chief scientist in Leg 193 of the Ocean Drilling Program, to investigate Pacmanus, a hydrothermal field in the waters of Papua New Guinea, very close to Nautilus Minerals Solwara 1.
Fernando has been an alternate delegate of Portugal in the Marine Board (2002-2007); was a member of Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s IWG+, and was Portugal’s delegate to Ecord until 2016. From 2004 to 2010 was Director of National Museum of Natural History; from 2002 to 2007, was a co-ordinator of the National Working Group for Research in the Deep Sea. Was a member (Invited Specialist) of Comissão Estratégica dos Oceanos (2003-2004). He was Director of Creminer FCUL LARSyS, a research unit with ample activity on mineral deposits, until it merged with Instituto Dom Luiz (end of 2014).
In April 2013 Fernando spoke to the STOA Panel of the European Parliament, a presentation on the future of mineral resources on the deep seafloor; in September 2014 he was Technical Program Co-Chair and Host of the 43rd Underwater Mining Institute, which took place in Lisbon and other locations in Portugal, and gathered nearly 200 professionals devoted to the various aspects of marine mining, under the topic Harvesting Seabed Mineral Resources in Harmony with Nature. In October 2014 Fernando was Invited Speaker in EurOcean 2014 in Rome and contributed to the final Rome Declaration. In 2015 he participated, by invitation, in the Workshop for Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean Crust & Mantle, May 13th to 16th, 2015, Woods Hole MA, USA, and, in September, in the Third InterRidge Theoretical Institute, in Hangzhou, China. Recently he was the Co-ordinator of the Portuguese team in EU project Blue Mining and a member of the Scientific Committee of the X National Geological Congress in Ponta Delgada. Also in 2018 he was invited speaker in the European Parliament Event “Azores: Deeper Than Blue”. Still in 2018 (July) he was appointed Guest Professor of the Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences, State Oceanic Administration, China, for a period of three years. In September 2019 he was appointed Steering Committee Member of the InterRidge Working Group on SMS Resources along MOR.
Top 10 Publications:
Mineral Resources and Deposits; Fluids in the Earth’s Crust; Hydrothemal Activity and Volcanology; Erosion and Re-use of sediments; Geochemistry; Mineralogy
Projects (10 most relevant):
AMAR – Localização e Caracterização de Fontes Hidrotermais no Segmento AMAR FCT (Praxis XXI) 1997-98 (team member)
Multidisciplinary approach to the crustal processes responsible for generating mineral resources – Praxis XXI (JNICT – 1997-1999) (team member)
AMORES – Azores Mid-Oceanic Ridge Ecosystem Studies (MAS3-CT95-0040) EU-MAST III 1996 – 1998 (team member)
GEOMMINCOR – Estudo Geológico e Metalogenético dos Jazigos de Neves-Corvo – Sociedade Mineira de Neves Corvo – 1992-1997 (PI)
MARFLUX/ATJ – Study of Hydrothermal Fluxes in the Azores Triple Junction – EEC – 1994-1996 (team member)
SULFIBER – Génese de Jazigos de Sulfuretos Maciços e Aplicação à Prospecção Mineral na Faixa Piritosa Ibérica; Praxis XXI (JNICT 1996 – 1999) (PI)
Archimedes 1 – POCTI/CTA/41393/2001 (PI)
Seahma – POCTI/P/MAR/15281/1999 (PI)
Sabre – POCTI/CTE-GEX/59277/2004 (PI)
Archimedes II (team member)
Blue Mining (EU) (Coordinator of Portuguese team)
Books & Chapters (up to 10):
Gaspar JL, Guest JE, Duncan AM, Barriga FJAS, Chester DK, eds, 2015. Volcanic Geology of São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago) Geological Society, London, Memoirs, vol 44 doi:10.1144/M44.0
Fouquet Yves, Pierre Cambon, Joël Etoubleau, Jean Luc Charlou, Hélène Ondréas, Fernando J. A. S. Barriga, Georgy Cherkashov, Tatiana Semkova, Irina Poroshina, M. Bohn, Jean Pierre Donval, Katell Henry, Pamela Murphy, and Olivier Rouxel, 2010. Geodiversity of Hydrothermal Processes Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge–Ultramafic-Hosted Mineralization: A New Type of Oceanic Cu-Zn-Co-Au Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit, pp321-368. In: P Rona, C Devey, J Dyment, and B Murton, Eds, Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges American Geophysical Monograph 188, 440p
Barriga, F.J.A.S., Binns, R.A., Miller, D.J., and Herzig, P.M. (Eds.), 2007. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 193: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.193.2007
Barriga FJAS, Carvalho D, Ribeiro A, 1997. Introduction to the Iberian Pyrite Belt. In: Barriga FJAS, Carvalho D, eds, Geology and VMS Deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook Series, vol 27, pp 1-20
Barriga FJAS, 1990. Metallogenesis in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. In: RD Dallmeyer, E Martinez (Eds), Geology of Hercynian Iberia, Springer – Verlag, p 369-379
Conferences (last 15 presentations):
Can submarine massive sulphide deposits be recycled? InterRidge Workshop, Hangzhou, China, 21 Sep2019)
Recursos Naturais da Crosta Oceânica Profunda (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 17Jan2019)
Favourable societal and geological settings for ssms deposits (MarMine Workshop, Oslo, 24Jan2019)
Mar Mineral: uma Exposição do Fundo do Mar (O mar e as novas fronteiras X CNG-17735 Ponta Delgada 12Jul2018)
Can recycling and circular economy render seafloor mining unnecessary? (Berlin, Underwater Mining Conference 2017 (September)
Submarine Geothermal Energy Sources and Fluxes in a Water-Cooled Planet (Semana da Ciência, 24 Novembro 2017, IDL
Mining Below the Deep Seafloor? NIMBY? (1st Marine UAS Summer School, IST, 19 June 2017)
Minérios nos Fundos Marinhos: Miragem? Ou o Futuro ao Virar da Esquina? (Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal 4Jul2016 e Festa do Avante! 2Set2017)
Mineração sustentável e responsável em ambiente marinho profundo (Colóquio Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 16Mai2017)
Minerais Orgânicos (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, 10Dez2016)
Mar: a grande riqueza de Portugal (Tertúlia Augusto Cabrita, Barreiro 30Set2016)
Replacement and deep-sea exploration for sub-seafloor massive sulphide deposits (Third InterRidge Theoretical Institute, 29 September 2015, Hangzhou, China)
Os Minerais e a Luz (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, 3Dez2015)
The ocean basins for philosophers (Workshop on Scientific Realism, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 20Mar2014
Geobiodiversidade: Extremófilos, intraterrestres e extraterrestres, do interior da Terra aos confins do Sistema Solar Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, 22Abr2010
Ciência e Tecnologia na fronteira do mar profundo (com Ricardo Serrão Santos). Encontro com os Laboratórios Associados na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkial, 12Abr2007
Lamas em Albufeiras: de problema a recurso. Biblioteca-Museu República e Resistência (CML), Ciclo de Palestras de Geologia “Do Grão ao Planeta”, 25Jan2007
As Fronteiras da Geologia na Terra, no Mar e no Espaço. Museu República e Resistência, Ciclo “Do Grão ao Planeta” 26Out2006)
Metais, metano e micróbios: pistas submarinas para o futuro das geociências. (VI Congresso Nacional de Geologia, UNL, Caparica, 6Jun2003)
Awards:
2003 Prize for Best Paper, Mineralium Deposita 2000-2001 Society for Mineral Deposits (SGA)
2000 Corresponding Member Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
1980 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1980-82) Government of Ontario, Canada