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Biography

Dr Larissa de Oliveira is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at University College Cork. Dr de Oliveira has graduated with a PhD in Marine Geology from University College Cork, Ireland.
Larissa holds a BSc (Hons) in Geology and  Technical Degree in Information Technology. Her research interests include seabed habitat mapping, the development of novel mapping and monitoring methods, 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). Dr Larissa is currently developing research in 3D photogrammetry, change detection, and virtual reality and is collaborating and supervising projects in seabed habitat mapping, and machine learning at the Department of Geography at University College Cork.‍

Research Interests

• Seabed habitat mapping
• Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry 
• 3D data analysis for cold-water coral habitat classification
• Mapping marine and coastal environments in space and time
• Automated image analysis
• Use of digital twins in landscape digitalisation

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Publications

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2022)	'High-resolution 3D mapping of cold-water coral reefs using machine learning' de Oliveira, LMC;Lim, A;Conti, LA;Wheeler, AJ (2022) 'High-resolution 3D mapping of cold-water coral reefs using machine learning'. Frontiers In Environmental Science, 10 [DOI] [Details]
	(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' Appah JKM;Lynch SA;Lim A;O' Riordan R;O'Reilly L;de Oliveira L;Wheeler AJ; (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 [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Developing Mobile Applications with Augmented Reality and 3D Photogrammetry for Visualisation of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Deep-Water Habitats' de Oliveira, Larissa Macedo Cruz and Oliveira, Priscila Almeida de and Lim, Aaron and Wheeler, Andrew J. and Conti, Luis Americo (2022) 'Developing Mobile Applications with Augmented Reality and 3D Photogrammetry for Visualisation of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Deep-Water Habitats'. Geosciences, 12 (10)   [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'3D Classification of Cold-Water Coral Reefs: A Comparison of Classification Techniques for 3D Reconstructions of Cold-Water Coral Reefs and Seabed' de Oliveira, LMC;Lim, A;Conti, LA;Wheeler, AJ (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, 8 [DOI] [Details]
	(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' de Oliveira L.M.C.;Stefano P.H.P.;Vedana L.A.;de Carregosa J.C.;Santos M.M.N.;Wisniewski A.;Pereira F.M.C.d.C. (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'. Environmental Earth Sciences, 79 (16) [DOI] [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Honours and Awards

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2022	ESAI Postgraduate Researcher of the Year	Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland
	2022	Best Marine Offshore Instructor of SMARTSea School	BEES Society
	2022	Delap Bronze Prize for Best Peer-reviewed Publication	School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Research Information

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Internal Collaborators

	Name	Institute	Country
	David Price	Institute of Marine Research (IMAR) - University of Azores	PORTUGAL
	Andy Wheeler	University College Cork	IRELAND
	Mohit Tunwal	University College Cork	IRELAND
	Aaron Lim	University College Cork	IRELAND