Luis Batista

 
 

Profile

Research Group: RG2 – Ocean, coastal and land surface processes
Position at IDL: PhD Student
Job: PhD Student 
Email: luis.batista@ipma.pt 
Telephone Number: (351) 21-844-7064 
Academic Degree and field of specialization: 

Master in Geology. FCUL, 2009

Scientific Informations

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-1612

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

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=qaVbO5UAAAAJ


Scientific Interests

Main Interests: 

Geodynamics, Tectonics, Marine Geology,  Oceanic Crust structure, Azores-Gibraltar Plate Boundary,

Marine geophysics: seismic reflection, and refraction

 

Top 10 Publications: 

Hensen, C., J.C. Duarte, P. Vannucchi, A. Mazzini, M. Lever, P. Terrinha, L. Géli, P. Henry, H. Villinger, J. Morgan, M. Schmidt, M.-A. Gutscher, R. Bartolomè, Y. Tomonaga, A. Polonia, E. Gràcia, U. Tinivella, M. Lupi, N. Çağatay, M. Elvert, D. Sakellariou, L. Matias, R. Kipfer, A. P. Karageorgis, L. Ruffine, V. Liebetrau, C. Pierre, C. Schmidt, L. Batista, L. Gasperini, E. Burwicz, M. Neres, M. Nuzzo, and the FLOWS consortium (www.flows-cost.eu) (2019). Marine Transform Faults and Fracture Zones: A Joint Perspective Integrating Seismicity, Fluid Flow and Life, Frontiers in Earth Science. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 7(39),  http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00039.

Batista L, Hubscher C, Terrinha P, Matias L, Afilhado A,  Ludmann T (2017) Crustal structure of the Eurasia–Africa plate boundary across the Gloria Fault, North Atlantic Ocean, Geophysical Journal International, 209, 713-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx050.

Omira, R., Ramalho, I., Terrinha, P., Baptista, M.A., Batista, L., and Zitellini, N. (2016) Deep-water seamounts, a potential source of tsunami generated by landslides? The Hirondelle Seamount,  NE Atlantic. Marine Geology, Volume 379, Pages 267-280, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.06.010.

Abrantes, F., Hodell, D., Carrara, G., Batista, L., Duarte, H., (2010) IODP Drilling of the Shackleton Sites on the Iberian Margin: a Plio-Pleistocene marine reference section of the millennial-scale climate change. Scientific Drilling, No.9,April 2010. ISSN:1816-8957. DOI:10.2204/iodp.sd.9.10.2010

Batista, L. 2009. Cartografia da Deformação Tectónica de Idade Pliocénica e Quaternária na Planície Abissal do Tejo, Talude e Plataforma Continental Adjacentes com Base na Interpretação de Perfis Sísmicos de Reflexão e Batimetria Multifeixe. Mestrado em Geologia do Ambiente, Riscos Geológicos e Ordenamento do Território. Departamento de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. 84pp

Projects (10 most relevant): 

EMODnet4, 2019-2021 – European Marine Observation and Data Network” EMODnet 4.

EMODnet3, 2017-2019 – European Marine Observation and Data Network” EMODnet 3.

RELICT, 2019 – The role of lithospheric inheritance and passive margin reactivation on subduction initiation – RELICT. Pre- proposal for IODP drilling, 1 October 2019.

FRAME, 2018-2019: FoRmAtion of geological domains in the Western Iberian Margin and tectonic rEactivation of their limits. CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.

PROPEL, 2017: PROPagation of the Eurasia-Africa pLate boundary East of the GLoria Fault., EUROFLEETS project cruise.

FLOWS – Impact of Fluid circulation in old oceanic Lithosphere on the seismicity of transfOrm-type plate boundaries: neW solutions for early seismic monitoring of major european Seismogenic zones – (2013-2018).COST Action ES1301.

ASTARTE  – Assessment, Strategy And Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe; Grant Agreement number 603839 (2013-2017), co-financed by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program.

MODELINK – Modeling the tectonic missing link between the active Gloria and SWIM fault systems along the (Atlantic) Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary – MODELINK  EXPL/GEO-GEO/0714/2013

TopoMed – Plate re-organization in the western Mediterranean: lithospheric causes and topographic consequences – A Collaborative Research Project for the ESF-EUROCORE Program 2007

TECTAP – Structure, Stratigraphy and Tectono-Thermal Evolution of the Tagus Abyssal Plain – PTDC/CTE-GIN/68462/2006.

Books & Chapters (up to 10): 

Omira, R., M. Neres, L. Batista (2019), Chapter 8: The Gloria Transform Fault—NE Atlantic: Seismogenic and Tsunamigenic Potential, in Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones. Edited by J.C. Duarte, pp. 157-167, Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-812064-4.00008-6

Pedro Terrinha, Luís Matias, Vasco Valadares, Ana Cristina Roque, João Duarte, Filipe Rosas, Sónia Silva, Tiago Cunha, Luís Batista, Henrique Duarte, Gabriela Carrara, Eulália Gràcia, Nevio Zitellini, Nuno Lourenço e Manuel Pinto de Abreu .A Margem Sul Portuguesa profunda. In: Geologia de Portugal, Vol. II: Geologia Meso-cenozóica de Portugal. Eds. Rui Dias, Alexandre Araújo, Pedro Terrinha, José Carlos Kullberg. Lisboa: Livraria Escolar Editora, 2013, Cap. III.2., p. 167-194

Conferences (last 15 presentations): 

Batista, L., Christian Hübscher, Pedro Terrinha, Luis Matias, and Alexandra Afilhado, (2019). Crustal structure across the Sao Miguel Island – Azores. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-10196. EGU General Assembly 2019. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-10196.pdf

Carlos Ribeiro, Pedro Terrinha, Pedro Brito, João Noiva, Marcos Rosa, Luis Batista, Marta Neres, and Vitor Magalhães, (2019). Cataloguing Quaternary paleo-coastlines in West and Southwest Portugal. Economic, societal and geologic implications. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-PREVIEW. EGU General Assembly 2019.

Ingo Grevemeyer, Valenti Sallares, Cesar R. Ranero, Rafael Bartolomé, Manel Prada, Luis Batista, and Marta Neres, (2019). The continent-ocean transition zone in the Iberia Abyssal Plain re-visited: seismic constraints from FRAME profile P3 by Ingo Grevemeyer et al. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-5504. EGU General Assembly 2019. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-5504.pdf

Pedro Silva, Cristina Roque, Lucie Hervieu, Lise Mangin, Roxane Mathey, Manuel Teixeira, Luis Batista, and Vitor Magalhães, (2019). Magnetic fabric acquisition process in soft sediments of the Southwest Portuguese continental margin. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-8369. EGU General Assembly 2019. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-8369.pdf

Medialdea, T., P. Terrinha, L. Somoza, L. Batista, F.J. González, A. Lobato (2018). The new digital geological maps of the Iberian Atlantic Margin: The EMODnet-Geology Project. Proceedings of the IX Symposium on the Iberian Atlantic Margin, pp. 45-46. Coimbra – Portugal

 Batista, L., Terrinha, P., Silva, S., Rosa, M., 2018. EMODnet Geologia. X Congresso Nacional de Geologia (CNG), 10-13 Julho.  Açores, Portugal. (poster)

Rosa, M., Lourenço, N., Batista, L., 2018. EMODnet  Batimetria. X Congresso Nacional de Geologia (CNG), 10-13 Julho.  Açores, Portugal. (poster)

Batista, L.; Hübscher, C.; Matias, L.; Terrinha, P.; Afilhado, A.; Lüdmann, T., 2018. Modelos de velocidades Vp e Vs transversais à falha da Gloria na zona de fronteira de placas Eurásia-Africa no Norte-Atlântico:  implicações na composição da crusta e manto litosférico superior. IX Congresso Nacional de Geologia (CNG), 10-13 Julho.  Açores, Portugal. (oral)

Batista, L.; Hübscher, C.; Matias, L.; Terrinha, P.; Afilhado, A., 2018. Estrutura da Crusta na área de São Miguel – Açores. IX Congresso Nacional de Geologia (CNG), 10-13 Julho.  Açores, Portugal. (oral)

Somoza, L., Medialdea, T., Terrinha, P., Pinheiro, L., Magalhaes, V., González, F.J., León, R., Batista, L., Lobato, A., 2018. Catalogue of gas seeps around the Iberian Continental Margin: Atlantic vs. Mediterranean. 14th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments (GIMS 14), Haifa, Israel, 2018.

Batista L, Christian Hübscher, Pedro Terrinha, Luis Matias, Alexandra Afilhado and Thomas Lüdmann, (2017). Vp and Vs velocity models from the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary across the Gloria Fault, North Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 19, EGU2017-711. EGU General Assembly 2017. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-711.pdf

Ramalho I., Omira R., Baptista M A, Miranda M, Terrinha P, Batista L, Roque C. (2015). Contribution of large submarine landslide to tsunami potential in the NE Atlantic region: The Gorringe Bank case study. In Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-7477. EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-7477.pdf.

Omira, R., Ramalho, I., Baptista, M. A., Miranda J.M., BatistaL., Terrinha, P. (2014). Tsunamis Triggered by Submarine Landslides in the NE Atlantic: Evidences of Mass Failures and Numerical Modeling. In AGU Fall Meeting 2014 (OS33B-1060). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/15738.

Benedikt Weiß, Christian Hübscher, Luís Batista, Ali Dehghani, Thomas Lüdmann, and Jonas Wagner Hotspot dominated rifting – The instance of São Miguel (south-eastern Terceira Rift, Azores). Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-8058, 2011.