Francisco Fatela

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG3 – Solid Earth dynamics
Position at IDL: Researcher
Job: Associate Professor, FCUL
Email: ffatela@fc.ul.pt 
Telephone Number: +351 21 750 0358 
Extension: 526456 
Room: 6.4.56 

Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

– Habilitation (Agregação) in Geology; specialty Palaeontology and Stratigraphy. Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. May 11, 2018.

– European PhD in Oceanography and Palaeoceanograghy (Marine Geology). University of Bordeaux I. January 13, 1995.

– “Maître ès Sciences” (Diplôme D’Etudes Supérieures – D.E.S.) University of Bordeaux I. October 13, 1989.

– Grade in Geology (4 years). Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. September 19 de 1988.

 

Field of specialisation:

Ecology and Palaeoecology of Quaternary Benthic Foraminifera; Palaeoenvironmental reconstitutions; Marine Geology.

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-3158

SCOPUS ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55957903700

Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-6583-2013

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francisco_Fatela

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=YTUR8yYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Website: https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/ffatela

Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Characterisation of the living assemblages of benthic Foraminifera from the main Portuguese coastal environments and its application, as reliable ecological proxies, to the interpretation of Palaeoenvironmental, Palaeogeographic and Palaeoclimatic changes from geological record. Including foraminiferal record of sea level changes and coastal extreme events. This goal has been developed though several FCT funded projects.

Top 10 Publications: 

  1. Jiménez-Morillo, N.T.; Moreno, J.; Moreno, F.;  Fatela, F; Leorri, E.; De la Rosa, J.M. (2024). Composition and sources of sediment organic matter in a western Iberian salt marsh: Developing a novel prediction model of the bromine sedimentary pool. Science of the Total Environment - STOTEN, 907, 167931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167931

  2. Moreno, J.; Leorri, E.; Fatela, F; Freitas, M.C.; Moreno, F.; Mirão, J.; Dias, L.; Leira, M.; Masqué, P.; Russo, A.; Cunha, A.; Inácio, M. and Blake, W.H. (2023). Dating recent tidal marsh sediments using windborne giant particles of green petcoke – An example from the southwest coast of Portugal. Continental Shelf Research, 262, 105026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2023.105026

  3. Costa, A.M.; Freitas, M.C.; Jiménez-González, M.A.; Jiménez-Morillo, N.T; Dias, C.B.; Val-Péon, C.; Reicherter, K.; Fatela, F.; Araújo, A.C.; Gabriel, S.; Leira, M.; Diniz, M. and Arias, P. (2022). A multidisciplinary approach to characterise the Early-Middle Holocene palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Sado Valley of Portugal: implications for late Mesolithic human communities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 598, 111015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111015

  4. Moreno, J.; Moreno, F.; Fatela, F.; Leorri, E. (2021). Examining the role of solar activity, climate, and the social-historical context in high all-cause mortality (northern Portugal, 1700-1880). Boreas, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12563

  5. Moreno, F.; Moreno, J.; Fatela, F.; Guise, L.; Vieira, C.; Leira, M. (2020). Bromine biogeodynamics in the NE Atlantic: A perspective from natural wetlands of western Portugal. Science of the Total Environment – STOTEN, 722, 137649.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137649

  6. Moreno, J., Fatela, F., Leorri, E., Moreno, F., Gonçalves, M.A., Gómez-Navarro, J-J., M.F. Araújo, M.F., Freitas, M.C., R.M. Trigo, R.M. and Blake, W.H. (2018). Foraminiferal evidence of major environmental changes driven by the sun-climate coupling in the western Portuguese coast (14th century to present). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 218: 106-118 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.11.030

  7. Moreno, J.; Fatela, F.; Leorri, E.; Moreno, F. (2017). Records from marsh Foraminifera and grapevine growing season temperatures reveal the hydro-climatic evolution of the Minho region (NW Portugal) from 1856–2009. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 47: 208-218. DOI: 10.2113/gsjfr.47.2.208 http://jfr.geoscienceworld.org/content/47/2/208

  8. Quintela, M.; Costa P.; Fatela, F.; Drago, T.; Hoska, N.; Andrade, C.; Freitas, M.C. (2015). The AD 1755 tsunami deposits onshore and offshore of Algarve (south Portugal): Sediment transport interpretations based on the study of Foraminifera assemblages, Quaternary International, 408: 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.029

  9. Fatela, F.; Moreno, J.; Leorri, E.; Corbett, R. (2014). High marsh foraminiferal assemblages response to intra-decadal and multi-decadal precipitation variability, between 1934 and 2010 (Minho, NW Portugal). Journal of Sea Research, 93: 118-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2013.07.021

  10. Leorri, E.; Fatela, F.; Drago, T.; Bradley, S.; Moreno J., Cearreta, A. (2013). Late Glacial and Holocene coastal evolution in the Minho estuary (N. Portugal): implications for understanding sea-level changes in Atlantic Iberia. The Holocene, 23: 352-362. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683612460786

Projects (10 most relevant): 

present: Member of project Nature Based Education in Coastal GEOSciences – a Field Station in southern Portugal (EduCoast) EEA Grant - EEA.BG.CALL5.027.2020 , as coordinator of the teachers formation course: Coastal Zones: a changing world. Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)/ Instituto Dom Luiz (ULisboa). PI: Teresa Drago.

Member of project Coupling onshore and offshore tsunami record: complementary tools for a broader perspective on tsunami events (OnOff), FCT – PTDC/CTA‐GEO/28941/2017. Instituto Dom Luiz – IDL (ULisboa). PI: Pedro Costa.

Member of project Long-term assessment of climate induced regime shifts in Coastal Areas (CLIMARES), FCT – PTDC/CTA-GEO/28412/2017. Instituto Dom Luiz – IDL (ULisboa). PI: Manel Leira.

2010 a 2013: PI of project Recent evolution of Portuguese W coast estuaries: high resolution studies from marshes geological record (WesTLog),FCT – PTDC/CTE/105370/2008. Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CeGUL); global budget: 150 000 euros.

2007 a 2011: Member of project Geological signature of tsunami deposits on the Portuguese coast(GETS), FCT – PTDC/CTE-GEX/65948/2006. Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CeGUL). PI: César Andrade.

2006 a 2010: Coordinator of CeGUL participation in the project POPEI – Paleo-productividade oceânica e alterações ambientais de alta resolução. Correlação com populações de peixe – POCTI/MAR/55618/2004 – FCT. Instituto Português de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar (IPIMAR). PI: Teresa Drago.

2008 a 2010: Portuguese PI of Acção Integrada Luso-Espanhola Avaliação integrada de indicadores paleoambientais da costa atlântica ibérica: associações de foraminíferos de sapal nos domínios ocidental e cantábrico. CRUP _ E – 20/08 (with Alejandro Cearreta and Eduardo Leorri from Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU); Portuguese budget 3500 euros.

2006 a 2009: Member of project Past Ocean Circulation and Productivity Changes on the Portuguese Margin and in the Open North Atlantic: Northern Hemisphere – Antarctica Linkages 380,000 to 800,000 years ago (PORTO), FCT – PDCT/MAR/58282/2004. Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG). PI Antje Voelker.

2005 a 2008: PI of project Microecology and Littoral Dynamics: definition of multi-proxies applicable to Quaternary palaeogeographical and palaeoclimatic reconstruction (MicroDyn),FCT Sapiens Projects – POCTI/CTA/45185/2002. Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa (CeGUL); global budget 100 000 euros.

2001 a 2005: Coordinator of CeGUL participation in the project Late Quaternary Environmental Changes from Estuarine and Shelf Sedimentary Record (Envichanges), FCT – PDCTM/PP/MAR/15251/99 – PLE/12/00. Instituto Português de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar (IPIMAR).PI: Teresa Drago.

1988 a 1990: Member of Projecto Dinâmica Sedimentar da Plataforma Continental a Norte de Peniche– DISEPLA (JNICT nº 87259). Museu e Laboratório Mineralógico e Geológico da Universidade de Lisboa. PIs: J. M. Alveirinho Dias and A.M. Galopim de Carvalho.

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

N/A

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

  1. Shchepetkina, A.; Drago, T.; Freitas, M.C.; Fatela, F. (2023). Sedimentology and ichnology of the middle to lower reaches of the Mira River estuary, Portugal. XI Congresso Nacional de Geologia, abstracts book, pp. 171-172. 17-19 July, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

  2. Fatela, F.; Costa, P.; Dourado F. (2022). Unravelling the November 1st, 1755 tsunami record across the Atlantic. MIA 2022- X Symposium On The Atlantic Iberian Margin, abstracts book, p. 49, 7-9 July, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.

  3. Moreno, J., Leorri, E.; Fatela, F.; Freitas, M.C.; Moreno, F.; Mirão, Dias, J.; Leira, M.; Masqué, P.; Russo, A.; Cunha, A.; Inácio, M.; Blake, W. (2022). Petroleum coke as a chronological marker: insights from tidal marsh sediments of the Sado estuary, SW Portugal. MIA 2022- X Symposium On The Atlantic Iberian Margin, abstracts book, p. 81, 7-9 July, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.

  4. Costa, A.; Freitas, M.C.; Teixeira, A.; Costa, P.; Santos, R.; Cachão, M.; Fatela, F.; Pereira, R.; Lopes, V.; El-Boudjay, A. (2022). Environmental changes, extreme events and historical occupation at Oued Laksar (Ksar Seghir), Morocco – preliminary results. Colóquio Internacional "Catástrofes Naturais na História. Nos 500 anos do terramoto de Vila Franca do Campo". 20 a 22 de Outubro 2022.

  5. Fatela, F.; Costa, P.; Silva, A.; Andrade, C. (2020). SIZE MATTERS! Or the crucial importance of small foraminifera in interpreting tsunami sediments. EGU General Assembly 2020 [online]; Session NH5.3 – Geological Records of Tsunamis and Other Extreme Waves.

  6. Leira, M., Freitas, M.C., Cunha, A., Inácio, M., Moreno, J., Andrade, C., Fatela, F., Cachão, M., Lopes, V., Cruces, A., Hernández, A., Bao, R., Santos, L., Prado, P., Trobajo, R., Ibañez, C. (2019). Long-term assessment of climate induced regime shifts in coastal areas. INQUA 2019, 25th-31rdJuly, Dublin, Ireland.

  7. Moreno, F., Moreno, J.2 Rodrigues, M., Gomes, A.S., Valente, T., Guise, L., Vieira, C., Fatela, F. (2019). The plant’s role in bromine sequestration in natural wetlands: comparing native species from salt marshes and mires of northwestern Portugal. XII Congresso Ibérico de Geoquímica, 22 – 25 September, Évora, Portugal.

  8. Leira, M., Freitas, M.C., Cunha, A., Inácio, M., Moreno, J., Andrade, C., Fatela, F., Cachão, M., Lopes, V., Cruces, A., Hernández, A., Bao, R., Santos, L., Prado, P., Trobajo, R., Ibañez, C. (2019). Long-term assessment of climate induced regime shifts in coastal areas. INQUA 2019, 25th-31rd July, Dublin, Ireland.

  9. Cabral, M.C., Fatela, F., Barata, F. (2019). Recent ostracod assemblages from the eastern Algarve continental shelf, Portugal. 9th European Ostracodologist’s Meeting -EOM 2019. 19-22 July, Gdansk, Poland.

  10. Lopes, A., Alonso-Garcia, M., Rodriguez-Diaz, C. N., Rodrigues, T., Voelker, A. H. L., Kuhnert, H., Groeneveld, J., Herrero, C., Fatela, F., Soares, W., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Sierro, F. J., Flores, J.A. and Abrantes, F. (2018). Foraminifera response to Mediterranean Overflow Water changes during the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene transition. AGU 20184 Fall Meeting, 10-14 December, Washington D.C., USA.

  11. Moreno, J., Fatela, F., Leorri, E., Moreno, F. and Blake, W. H. (2018). Marsh foraminiferal record of environmental changes driven by the sun-climate coupling: application to the W coast of Portugal from the 14th century to present. MIA 2018 – IX Symposium On The Atlantic Iberian Margin, 4-7 September, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

  12. Fatela, F., Moreno, J., and Cabral, M. C. (2018). Influence of estuarine waters salinity in the composition of modern Foraminiferal and Ostracoda assemblages along the W coast of Portugal: a tool to palaeoenvironmental assessment. MIA 2018 – IX Symposium On The Atlantic Iberian Margin, 4-7 September, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

  13. Lopes, A., Alonso-Garcia, M., Rodriguez-Diaz, C. N., Salgueiro, E., Rodrigues, T., Kuhnert, H., Groeneveld, J., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Herrero, C., Soares, W., Fatela, F., Voelker, A. H. L., Sierro, F. J., Flores, J.A. and Abrantes, F. (2018). Mediterranean Outflow Water changes during the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene: a benthic foraminifer perspective. FORAMS 2018 – International Symposium on Foraminifera., 17-22 June, Edinburg University, Scotland, UK.

  14. Cabral, M.C.; Fatela, F.; Lord, A. (2017). Composition and seasonal distribution of ostracods across the Sado estuary tidal marshes (SW Portugal). ISO 18 – 18th International Simposium on Ostracoda, 27-31 August, Univ. California, Sta. Barbara, CA, USA.

  15. Fatela, F.; Costa, P.; Quintela, M.; Hoska, N.; Drago, T.; Andrade, C.; Oliveira, M.A.; Freitas, M.C. (2015). Use of Foraminifera as a proxy to characterize onshore and offshore deposits of the AD1755 tsunami in the south of Portugal. XIX INQUA 2015. Nagoya, Japan.

Awards: 

Best Exhibition 1996-1998 awarded by Associação Portuguesa de Museologia to the Future Pavillion of Expo’98 (ex-aequo with Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion).

Professor of the Semester (1st semester 2020_21) to the 2nd year Biology grade; awarded by Biology Students Association of Ciências ULisboa (NEBFCUL).

Honourable Mention in Recognition of Teaching Excellence at Ciências ULisboa 2020/2021; awarded by Ciências ULisboa Director Board.