Congratulations to our MEDfOR alumni Frederico Simões! He recently published a paper with results from his master thesis. The article “Assessment of drought effects on survival and growth dynamics in eucalypt commercial forestry using remote sensing photogrammetry. A showcase in Mato Grosso, Brazil” was published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119930

Frederico, from Brazil, studied at the University of Lisbon and at the University of Valladolid in the academic years 2019/2021. He is currently enrolled in the Skill-for-Action project (https://etnskillforaction.com/) that is part of the Marie Sklodowska Curie program, as a pre-doctoral researcher at the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. Frederico works with the integration of LiDAR information in operational models of growth and production of mixed forests.