QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRANSITION ENVIRONMENTS ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST

• Grant number: 24/17682-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Archimedes Perez Filho
• Grantee: Luca Lämmle
• Supervisor: Pavlos Avramidis
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Patras, Greece
• Associated to the scholarship: 23/05346-4 - COASTAL EROSION AND POSSIBLE MITIGATION SOLUTIONS: QUALI-QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS FOR THE COASTAL PLAIN COASTLINE OF THE RIVER JEQUITINHONHA/BA AND PARAÍBA DO SUL/RJ, BP.PD

Abstract

Problems associated with coastal erosion have been increasingly reported in tropical and subtropical environments, especially in transition environments (such as estuarine and deltaic zones), which are even more sensitive due to the interaction between fluvial and marine dynamics. It is no different on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, especially in Greece and Italy, countries with the most extensive coastline in the European Union. In this sense, this project aims to understand this process on the coast of the Pineios and Volturno Rivers mouth using quantitative methods and modern techniques based on 2D fractal geometry and deep learning, carrying out an analysis of the entire drainage net-work of the river basins to be analyzed, measuring the coastline change in recent decades. Because of morphological convergence, either erosion, sediment deposition, or tectonics could generate shapes with about the same fractal dimension, independent of their intensity, age, and time during which they acted. From this perspective, we intend to demonstrate the multi-temporal progression of changes in the coastline based on a quantitative index, in position and area, identifying their causes and relationships with the anthropogenic pressures in the river basin and associated coastline. The results will make it possible to indicate the most appropriate mitigating measures for the cases to be studied, in addition to transferring methodological knowledge to Brazil, allowing it to be applied in the areas under study in the project underway at the Institute of Geosciences (IG/Unicamp) financed by FAPESP.