Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Name: Larissa de Oliveira

Position: Post-Doctoral researcher

Office: Office 203A, 2^nd Floor,  Department of Geography

Email Address: larissa.macedocruzdeoliveira@ucc.ie

Biography

Dr Larissa de Oliveira is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at University College Cork. Larissa has graduated with a PhD in Marine Geology from University College Cork, Ireland.

Larissa holds a BSc (Hons) in Geology from Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) and  Technical Degree in Information Technology from Instituto Federal de Sergipe (IFS), Brazil. Larissa’s research interests include seabed habitat mapping, the development of novel methods for ocean and terrestrial landscape analyses, 3D photogrammetry and machine learning.

Since 2019, Larissa has published 5 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Frontiers in Marine Sciences and Environmental Sciences, receiving the Delap Bronze Award for the best-peer-reviewed publication of the School of BEES and being awarded the Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland (ESAI) Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2022.

Larissa has participated in nine marine research expeditions to the North Atlantic, North Sea and Celtic Sea, securing 12 travel and research grants (SFI, Marine Institute, IRC, Helmholtz Institute of Data Science). Dr de Oliveira's lecturing experience includes (P/T) for the  Strategic Marine Alliance for Research & Training (SMART) and tutoring Earth Science-related disciplines.

During her PhD, Dr Larissa was the Postgraduate Representative of the School of BEES Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing (EDIW) committee, Student Ambassador of UCC Campus Connect, member of the organising committee of the Irish Geosciences Early Career Symposium and the UCC Marine Geosciences Research Group and a fellow of iAtlantic (Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Marine Ecosystems in Space and Time).

Larissa is currently developing research in digital twins, computational fluid dynamics,  3D photogrammetry, change detection, and is collaborating and supervising projects in seabed habitat mapping, virtual reality at the Department of Geography at University College Cork.

Active Research Projects

• Digital Environmental Technology for Enhanced Coastal Zone Management (DETECT): Post-Doctoral Fellow
• Towards inclusive, open access, virtual reality geoscience field trips for teaching and research enhancement (National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

• An Enhanced Angular Range Analysis workflow with backscatter and magnetometry for wider industrial impact and uptake of INFOMAR data (Masters by Research Project by Cara Brennan): Co-supervisor
• The development and impact of VR field trips on Geoscience Curricula (Department of Communication, Climate Action and the Environment) (Masters by Research Project): Co-supervisor

 Past research projects

• Towards inclusive, open access, virtual reality geoscience field trips for teaching and research enhancement (National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

Publications

de Oliveira, L. M. C (2023). The application of machine learning and 3D photogrammetry for cold-water coral habitat classification in the NE Atlantic (PhD thesis)

de Oliveira, L. M. C, Lim, A., Conti, L. A., & Wheeler, A. J. (2022). High-resolution 3D mapping of cold-water coral reefs using machine learning. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10.

de Oliveira, L.M.C.; Oliveira, P.A.d.; Lim, A.; Wheeler, A.J.; Conti, L.A. Developing Mobile Applications with Augmented Reality and 3D Photogrammetry for Visualisation of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Deep-Water Habitats. Geosciences 2022, 12, 356.

de Oliveira, L.M.C., Lim, A., Conti, L.A. & Wheeler, A.J. (2021). 3D classification of cold-water coral reefs: A comparison of classification techniques for 3D reconstructions of cold-water coral reefs and seabed. Frontiers in Marine Science. (awarded with Delap Student Prize –Bronze Award for best peer-reviewed academic paper)

de Oliveira, L.M.C., Stefano, P.H.P., Vedana, L.A. et al. (2020) A hydrogeological impact survey on the largest onshore oil field in Brazil: physicochemical and total petroleum hydrocarbon(TPH) analyses in the south of Japaratuba River Basin, Sergipe. Environ Earth Sci 79, 383(2020) (from Bachelor Thesis)

Appah, J. K. M., Lynch, S. A., Lim, A., O’ Riordan, R., O’Reilly, L., de Oliveira, L., & Wheeler, A. J.(2022). A health survey of the reef-forming scleractinian cold-water corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata in a remote submarine canyon on the European continental margin, NE Atlantic. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 192(June), 107782.