Biographical sketch of
Ricardo Silva Tavares de Lemos
(Last updated: April 11, 2015)
PhD, Marine Sciences
34 years old, Portuguese nationality
E-Mail: [email protected]
Personal webpage: http://rtl.com.sapo.pt
Permanent address: Rua Carlos Mardel, n. 111, 2B, 1900-120 Lisboa, Portugal.
Research and Teaching experience
2014-present: Senior Research Statistician. The Climate Corporation. 201 3rd St #1100, San Francisco,
CA 94103, USA.
2012-2014: Lecturer. Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, School of Mathematics
and Physics, The University of Queensland, Australia
2010-2011: JIMAR/PFEL Research Oceanographer. NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division,
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Pacific Grove, CA. USA
2005-2008: Researcher. Project Portcoast: Present and future Portuguese coastal climate and its impact on
biological communities. FCUL. Portugal
2004, 2005, 2007, 2009: Junior Specialist. Bayesian analyses of climate variability. University of
California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). USA
2004, 2006, 2007: Lecturer. Five 5-day courses on "Generalized Linear Models in Ecology". Liga para a
Protecção da Natureza (League for the Protection of Nature, LPN). Portugal
2000-2003: Fisheries researcher. Project SIAM - Climate Change in Portugal: Scenarios, Impacts and
Adaptation Measures (phases I and II). Portugal
Educational Background
2005-2010 PhD in Marine Science. Universidade de Lisboa. Portugal
2007 Tele-course on Dynamic Energy Budget Theory. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Netherlands.
2000-2003 MSc in Mathematics Applied to the Biological Sciences. Univ. Técnica de Lisboa. Portugal
2000 5 days mini-course on Geographic Information Systems. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Portugal.
1995-2000 BSc in Biology, Marine Resources. Faculdade de Ciências da Univ. de Lisboa. Portugal.
Research Interests and Skills
Ecosystem approach to natural resource management (viz. fisheries). Reconstruction of past climate based
on sparse observations and Bayesian hierarchical spatio-temporal models. Global Climate Model
evaluation and weighting. R, Matlab, Python, high-performance computing with MPI, OpenMP, BLASLAPACK, and Fortran-OOP.
Professional Society Memberships
International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Peer-reviewed publications
[1] Lemos, R.T., Oliveira Pires, H., 2004. The Upwelling Regime off the West Portuguese Coast, 19412000. International Journal of Climatology 24(4): 511-524
[2] Lemos, R.T., Gomes, J.F., 2004. Do local environmental factors induce daily and yearly variability in
bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) trap catches? Ecological Modelling 177 (1-2):143-156
[3] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., 2006. Spatio-temporal variability of ocean temperature in the Portugal
Current System. Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 111, C04010, doi:10.1029/2005JC003051
[4] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., Los Huertos, M., 2007. Spatially Varying Temperature Trends in a Central
California Estuary. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environ. Statistics, 12(3), 379-396
[5] Sousa, P., Lemos, R.T., Gomes, M.C., Azevedo, M., 2007. Analysis of horse mackerel, blue whiting,
and hake catch data from Portuguese surveys (1989–1999) using an integrated GLM approach.
Aquatic Living Resources 20: 105-116
[6] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., 2009. A spatio-temporal model for mean, anomaly and trend fields of North
Atlantic sea surface temperature (with discussion). Journal of the American Statistical
Association 104(485):5-18.
[7] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., Santos, F.D., 2010. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of wind and sea surface
temperature from the Portuguese coast. International Journal of Climatology 30(9): 1423-1430
[8] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., 2012. Conditionally Linear Models for Non-Homogeneous Spatial Random
Fields. Statistical Methodology 9(1-2): 275-284.
[9] Beltrán, F., Sansó, B., Lemos, R.T., Mendelssohn, R., 2012. Joint Projections of North Pacific Sea
Surface Temperature from Different Global Climate Models. Environmetrics, 23(5): 451-465.
[10] Catry, P., Lemos, R.T., Brickle, P., Phillips, R.A., Matias, R., Granadeiro, J.P., 2013. Predicting the
distribution of a threatened albatross: The importance of competition, fisheries and annual
variability. Progress in Oceanography 110: 1-10
Non-peer-reviewed publications
[11] Sousa Reis, C., Dornelas, M., Lemos, R., Santos, R., 2002. Fisheries. pp. 415-452 In Santos, F.D.,
Forbes, K., Moita, R. (eds.) Climate Change in Portugal: Scenarios, Impacts and Adaptation
Measures. Lisboa: Gradiva.
[12] Miranda, P., Lemos, R., et al., 2006. Estudo de caso do estuário do Sado (Sado estuary case study).
In Santos, F.D., Forbes, K., Moita, R. (eds.) Alterações Climáticas em Portugal: Cenários,
Impactos e Medidas de Adaptação, SIAM 2 (Climate Change in Portugal: Scenarios, Impacts and
Adaptation Measures, SIAM 2). Lisboa: Gradiva.
[13] Lemos, R.T., 2000. Influência de factores ambientais sobre a distribuição, crescimento e abundância
do polvo comum Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) (Influence of
environmental factors on the distribution, growth and abundance of the common octopus Octopus
vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)). BSc Thesis, Univ. Lisboa.
[14] Lemos, R.T., 2003. Aplicação de um modelo de contagens ao estudo da ecologia e pesca do atum
rabilho, Thunnus thynnus (L.) (Application of a hurdle regression model to the study of the
ecology and fisheries of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus (L.)). MSc Thesis, Univ. Técnica de
Lisboa.
[15] Lemos, R.T., 2010. Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for the Marine Sciences: Analyses of Climate
Variability and Fish Abundance. PhD Thesis, Univ. Lisboa.
Presentations at Scientific Meetings
[16] Lemos, R.T., Sansó, B., 2006. Climatological and anomaly fields of environmental variables,
considering anisotropy and non-stationarity (poster). Valencia / ISBA Eighth World Meeting on
Bayesian Statistics June 1 - 7, 2006. Benidorm, Spain.
[17] Lemos. R.T., Juliano, M., Sansó, B., 2008. Spatiotemporal variability of four major upwelling
systems, 1950-1999 (poster). Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems: Integrative and
Comparative Approaches - Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, Jun 2-6, 2008.
[18] Lemos, R.T., 2011. Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for the Marine Sciences: Analyses of Climate
Variability and Fish Abundance (oral). ASA Joint Statistical Meeting, Miami Beach FL, July 30Aug 4.
Awards
2009 Mitchell Prize for the Lemos & Sansó JASA paper (www.bayesian.org/awards/MitchellPrize.html)
2010 Savage Award in Applied Methodology, for the PhD thesis (www.bayesian.org/awards/Savage.html)
Interdisciplinary Activities
Member of the board of directors of LPN, 2006-2008, and coordinator the Oceans Group, 2006-2010.
Responsible for press releases, field work, organizing a workshop on MPAs, collaborations with other
eNGOs, projects, the team's portfolio, recruiting volunteers, representing LPN in advisory councils and
abroad.