Mariana Lopes Nishizima

PhD student in Geography at the Graduate Program of the Institute of Geoscience and Exact Sciences (IGCE) of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Júlio de Mesquita Filho Campus of Rio Claro - São Paulo, Brazil. Master's in Geography (Academic) at the FCT/UNESP campus in Presidente Prudente, São Paulo/Brazil. Graduated in Geography from FCT-UNESP, Presidente Prudente. She is a member of the Research Group and Laboratory: GEOCARTO - Geotechnology and Cartography, UNESP Ourinhos; Geographic Information Technology, UNESP Rio Claro. She is also a member of the Sedimentology and Soil Analysis Laboratory (Labsolos) of the Faculty of Science and Technology and of the Research Group on Land Surface, Water and Atmosphere Interactions (GAIA), under the supervision of Professor João Osvaldo Rodrigues Nunes. She is an exchange student under FAPESP's BEPE program in Portugal, and a member of the Centre for Geographical Studies in Spatial Planning (CEGOT) group at the Faculty of Letters (FLUC) of the University of Coimbra, under the co-supervision of Professor Dr. Lúcio José Sobral da Cunha. She is currently a PhD student in Geography in the Postgraduate Program in Geography at IGCE, UNESP, Rio Claro campus, and a member of the Geotechnologies and Cartography Applied to Geography group (GEOCART) under the guidance and coordination of Professor Andréa Aparecida Zacharias and under the co-supervision of Professor Dr. Eduardo Salinas Chávez of the University of Granada, Spain. He has experience in Geography, with an emphasis on Physical Geography, working mainly on the following subjects: Geomorphology; Soils; Soil Conservation; Environment; Vulnerability; Digital Stereoscopy; Mapping; Geographic Cartography; Geotechnology; Geoprocessing; Geography Teaching for Elementary, Secondary and Higher Education; Evaluation of Landscape Transformations; Theoretical, Strategic Planning Analyses; Evaluation and Practices of Geographic Space Production with an emphasis on Risk Analyses arising from Climate Change. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)