Advances in Geoengineering, Geotechnologies, and Geoenvironment for Earth Systems and Sustainable Georesources Management: Proceedings of the 1st Conf

Helder I. ChaminéH. I. Chaminé is a skilled Geologist and Professor of engineering geosciences at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic of Porto, with over 32 years of experience in multidisciplinary geosciences research, consultancy, and practice. He studied geological engineering and geology (BSc, 1990) at the Universities of Aveiro and Porto (Portugal), respectively. He received his PhD in geology at the University of Porto in 2000 and spent his postdoctoral research in applied geosciences at the University of Aveiro (2001-2003). In 2011 he received his Habilitation (DSc) in geosciences from Aveiro University.
Before joining the academy, he worked for over a decade on international projects for mining, geotechnics and groundwater industry and/or academia related to geodynamics and regional geology, hard-rock hydrogeology and water resources, engineering geosciences and applied geomorphology, rock engineering and georesources. His research interests span fundamental to applied fields: GIS mapping techniques for applied geology, structural geology and regional geology, engineering geosciences and rock engineering, slope geotechnics, mining geology and hydrogeomechanics, hard-rock hydrogeology, exploration hydrogeology, urban groundwater and hydromineral resources. In addition, he has interests in mining geoheritage, history of cartography, military geosciences and higher-education dissemination, skills, and core values.
He is Head of the Laboratory of Cartography and Applied Geology (LABCARGAISEP), the Senior Researcher at Centre GeoBioTecU.Aveiro and Centre IDLU.Lisbon, also belongs to the executive board of the MSc+BSc Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering programmes (OE+EUR-ACE Label) and the Department of Geotechnical Engineering (ISEP). Furthermore, he belongs to the board of the Technical Committee of Environmental Geotechnics of SPG (2021-...). Moreover, he was a boardmember of APGeom - Portuguese Association of Geomorphologists (2009-2013), SPG - Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2016-2020), APG - Portuguese Association of Geologists (2020-2021) and AIH-GP - Portuguese Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (2019-2022). Furthermore, he was a consultant and or responsible for over 70 projects of applied geology, hydrogeomechanics, slope geotechnics, mining geology, exploration hydrogeology, hard-rock hydrogeology, water resources, urban groundwater, and applied mapping (Mozambique, Portugal, and Spain).
Co-authored over 220 publications in indexed journals, conference proceedings/full papers, book chapters, technical and professional papers. He co-edited over 15 special volumes and is presently involved in editing themed issues for some international journals or ASTI Springer Series (e.g. Springer Nature Applied Sciences, Water MDPI, Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Springer). In addition, he has a wide activity as a reviewer for several international journals. In 2021, Springer Nature Applied Sciences awarded him an outstanding guest editor and editorial board member. Furthermore, he served as invited Expert Evaluator of the Bologna Geoscience programme for DGES (Portugal) and Scientific Projects Evaluation for NCST, 2017-2019 (Kazakhstan) and NRFRISA, 2019 (South Africa), as well as Coordinator of "Geology on Summer/Ciência Viva" programme at ISEP (2005-2019) for geoscience dissemination. He has also been active in teaching and supervising many PhD, MSc, and undergraduate students. He has been on the editorial board, among others, of the Springer Nature Applied Sciences, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Hydrogeology Journal, Geotechnical Research, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, Discover Water, Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences, Geosciences, Revista Geotecnia, and Geología Aplicadaa la Ingeniería y al Ambiente. In addition, he integrates as a moderator or session chair in several conferences, workshops, and meetings. He was the Scientific Chair of the 1st International Conference on Georesources, Geomaterials, Geotechnologies and Geoenvironment, 4GEO (Porto, Portugal, 7-8 November 2019). Currently, he is on the organizing and scientific committees of the 4th International Workshop on Natural Hazards - NATHAZ'25 (Azores, May 2025), focused on geotechnical hazards and risks. José Augusto Fernandes
J. A. Fernandes is a skilled geotechnical engineer and Professor of georesources at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic of Porto, with over 35 years' experience in interdisciplinary geotechnics, mining and georesources consultancy, practice, and research. He holds a PhD in Geosciences (Georesources speciality), an MSc in Industrial Minerals and Rocks from the University of Aveiro, and a degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the School of Engineering (ISEP), Polytechnic of Porto.
Currently is a Coordinator Professor in the Department of Geotechnical Engineering at ISEP, where he teaches, among other subjects, georesources, soil mechanics, geomaterials, geostatistics, and nuclear energy raw materials and production plants. Presently, he is Head of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory of Geotechnics and Construction Materials (LGMCISEP). He was the Director of the BSc Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering programme (OE+EURACE label). He regularly integrates several doctoral and master's thesis juries and was the supervisor of 2 PhD and over 45 MSc dissertations.
Researcher member at the Centre GeoBioTec (3G Group - Georesources, Geotechnics and Geomaterials), University of Aveiro. He was the Principal Investigator of the R&D projects (IPP, 2007): P1 - Study of shape variation of the aggregates produced in fragmentation equipment considering different particle sizes and power adjustments (CSS), and P2 - Evaluation of thermal behaviour of natural stones. He also participates, as a researcher, in the R&D project "Optical systems monitorisation in the shape of particles with irregular extended size distribution".
He has experience in geotechnical engineering and mining industrial projects, geotechnics (in-situ site investigations, soil mechanics and foundations), georesources, geomathematics and resources modelling and exploitation, and mining (open pit and underground) and ore processing and geomaterials. During his professional activity, held in private companies based in Portugal, the positions of: i) General Manager at Tracomine Ltd.; ii) Technical Consultant at Unimil Minerais Ltd. and Unizel Minerais Ltd; iii) Technical Director at Euroquartzo-Portugal Ltd., a subsidiary of French Multinational Group DAM (Denain Anzin Minéraux); iv) Production Manager in ECC Portugal - Minerais Industriais Inc., a subsidiary of Multinational Group ECC (English China Clay); v) Production Engineer in Anglo-Portuguesa de Caulinos de Viana, Ltd; vi) Chief Mine Engineer in Empresa Nacional de Urânio (ENU), Urgeiriça, and vii) Internship Engineer in Sociedade Mineira de França, Montesinho Mine, Bragança.
He is member of SPG (Portuguese Geotechnical Society), AP3E (Portuguese Association of Engineering Studies and Explosives), AIESMIN (Asociación Iberoamericana de Enseñanza Superior de la Minería), member and president of Portuguese geotechnical and mining engineering body of OET (Order of Technical Engineers). Currently, he is the chairman of the Portugal Mineral Resources Cluster. Author and co-author of several publications in conference proceedings and articles in national and international journals. He was an invited speaker and moderator for some conferences, workshops, and seminars. He was the General Chair of the 1st International Conference on Georesources, Geomaterials, Geotechnologies and Geoenvironment, 4GEO (Porto, Portugal, 7-8 November 2019).

赫爾德·I·查米內（Helder I. Chaminé）是一位技術嫻熟的地質學家，現任波爾圖理工學院（ISEP）工程學院工程地球科學教授，擁有超過32年的多學科地球科學研究、顧問及實務經驗。他於1990年在阿維羅大學和波爾圖大學（葡萄牙）分別獲得地質工程和地質學的學士學位。2000年，他在波爾圖大學獲得地質學博士學位，並於2001年至2003年間在阿維羅大學進行應用地球科學的博士後研究。2011年，他在阿維羅大學獲得地球科學的資格認證（DSc）。

在進入學術界之前，他在國際項目中工作了十多年，涉及礦業、岩土工程和地下水行業及/或與地動力學和區域地質、硬岩水文地質學和水資源、工程地球科學和應用地貌學、岩石工程和地球資源相關的學術研究。他的研究興趣涵蓋從基礎到應用的領域：應用地質的GIS繪圖技術、結構地質學和區域地質、工程地球科學和岩石工程、坡度岩土工程、礦業地質學和水文力學、硬岩水文地質學、勘探水文地質學、城市地下水和水礦資源。此外，他對礦業地質遺產、地圖學歷史、軍事地球科學以及高等教育的推廣、技能和核心價值也有興趣。

他是應用地質學和地圖學實驗室（LABCARGAISEP）的負責人，並擔任阿維羅大學GeoBioTec中心和里斯本IDLU中心的高級研究員，同時也是地質工程碩士及學士課程（OE+EUR-ACE標籤）和岩土工程系（ISEP）執行委員會的成員。此外，他還是SPG環境岩土工程技術委員會的成員（2021年至今）。此外，他曾擔任葡萄牙地貌學會（APGeom，2009-2013）、葡萄牙岩土工程學會（SPG，2016-2020）、葡萄牙地質學會（APG，2020-2021）和國際水文地質學會葡萄牙分會（AIH-GP，2019-2022）的董事會成員。此外，他還擔任過70多個應用地質學、水文力學、坡度岩土工程、礦業地質學、勘探水文地質學、硬岩水文地質學、水資源、城市地下水和應用繪圖項目的顧問或負責人（包括莫桑比克、葡萄牙和西班牙）。

他共同撰寫了超過220篇發表於索引期刊的論文、會議論文/全文、書籍章節及技術和專業論文。他共同編輯了超過15本特刊，並目前參與編輯一些國際期刊或ASTI Springer系列的主題專刊（例如Springer Nature Applied Sciences、Water MDPI、Arabian Journal of Geosciences - Springer）。此外，他還擔任多個國際期刊的審稿人。2021年，Springer Nature Applied Sciences授予他傑出客座編輯和編輯委員會成員的榮譽。此外，他曾擔任葡萄牙DGES博洛尼亞地球科學計畫的邀請專家評估員，以及2017-2019年（哈薩克斯坦）和2019年（南非）NCST和NRFRISA的科學項目評估員，並擔任ISEP的「夏季地質/Ciência Viva」計畫的協調員（2005-2019），以推廣地球科學。他還積極參與教學和指導許多博士、碩士及本科生。他曾擔任Springer Nature Applied Sciences、Arabian Journal of Geosciences、Hydrogeology Journal、Geotechnical Research、Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews、Discover Water、Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration、Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences、Geosciences、Revista Geotecnia及Geología Aplicadaa la Ingeniería y al Ambiente等期刊的編輯委員會成員。此外，他還在多個會議中擔任主持人或分會主席。