All projects

2024 > Panelist at Big Psych and People of Color Psychedelic Collective Panel – Developing an Intentional Relationship with Plant Medicine
2024 > Peer-reviewer for National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE 24)
2023- 2024 > Workshop Facilitator in a series of BIPOC youth professional development with Portland Community College. Topics covered included artificial intelligence, data collection, and mapping. Link of a collective map project
2023 – 2024> Workshop Facilitator at the Summer Institute Bootcamp on Geospatial Science with Educators of Oregon. Link of a collective map project
2023 > Conference Participation: ESRI Education Summit and User Conference
2023 > Peer-reviewer for International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction and Journal of Urban Ecology
2023 > Conference Workshop Facilitator at 35th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE 23) – Archiving graffiti values of African diaspora using geospatial technologies in Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans. Link
2023 > Project Coordinator in Capturing Community in SE Portland: A record of Portland Community College’s GIS Club’s involvement with Midori Hirose’s Furin Project. Link
2023 > Part 107: Passed Drone Pilot Exam by Federal Aviation Administration
2022 – 2023 > Grant Award of Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Computing at Portland Community College
2022 – 2023 > Project Coordinator in Punishment and Place: Data Storytelling on American Drug Policy. Link
2022 > Conference Participation: 2022 National ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference.
2022 > Workshop Training with NSF ATE program Working Partners.
2022 > Podcast Interview: Founding Mothers Podcast – Reconnecting with Culture through Psychedelic Healing. Link
2022 > Podcast Interview at Mulheres Imigrantes Podcast – Episode Knowledge with Lorena Nascimento. Link
2021 > Dissertation: Alves Carvalho Nascimento, Lorena, “Nature-Based Solutions in Environmental Planning: Ecosystem-Based Adaptations, Green Infrastructures, and Ecosystem Services to Promote Diversity in Urban Landscapes” (2021). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5843. Dissertation Link
2021 > Podcast Interview at Climate Frontline Podcast – Episode Rethinking Ecosystem Services with Lorena Nascimento. Link
2021 > Conference Presentation: NGO Committee of Status of Women 65 Forum – Women Leadership During COVID: Access, Demands, and Challenges. Link
2021 > Webinar: Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education – Are We Living in Habitable Cities? Making explicit the connection between social and climate justice. Link
2020 > Journal Article: Nascimento, L.A.C.; Shandas, V. Integrating Diverse Perspectives for Managing Neighborhood Trees and Urban Ecosystem Services in Portland, OR (US). Land 2021, 10, 48. Link
2020 > Ebook Chapter: Oliveira, R.C.N.; Junqueira, A. A.; Nascimento, L.A.C. Análise Preliminar na Comunidade Rural de Santana de Cataguases em Minas Gerais sobre Fomento Florestal. ISBN: 978-65-87563-09-1.
2020 > Webinar: Ciência com Certeza – Racial Equity and Potential Knowledge Production. Link
2020 > Webinar: People of Color Psychedelic Collective – Psychedelic Healing for People of Color. Link
2019 > Conference Poster: Nascimento, L.A.C. Green Ring Wayfinding Map in Portland State University Student Research Symposium. Link
2018 > Conference Presentation: City of Portland Tree Summit – Historical Urban Forestry in East Portland. Link
2018 > Book Chapter: Nascimento, L.A. C. (2018). O Futuro Negro. In Coletânea Afrofuturismo (pp. 46-53). ReCORTE. Link
2018 > Conference Poster: Nascimento, L. A. C. (2018, June). Distribution of dispensaries and liquor stores in Portland and Seattle. Paper presented at BRASCON 2018. Ohio State University. BRASCON abstract supplement. ISSN 2472-3894
2015 – 2019 > Teacher Assistant at Portland State University at the College of Urban and Public Affairs.
2016 > Journal article: Xavier, C. N., do Nascimento, A. M., Nascimento, L. A. C., & da Silva, M. A. (2016). Efeito do teor de umidade e da direção de carregamento na resistência de ligações pregadas em madeiras de reflorestamento. Revista Ciência da Madeira (Brazilian Journal of Wood Science), 7(1) Link .
2014 > Conference Poster: Medeiros, A. R.; Barbosa, L. S.; Nascimento, L. A. C.; Carvalho, A. M. ; Breier, T. B. Espécies florestais para a silvicultura de nativas no olhar da etnobotânica. In: XXXIII Jornada Fluminense de Botânica, 2014, Seropédica.
2014 > Conference Poster: XXIV Jornada de Iniciação Científica na UFRRJ – Avaliação da Colorimetria da madeira de Corymbia citriodora após o processo de termorretificação.
2014 > Conference Poster: XIV Encontro Brasileiro em Madeira e em Estruturas de Madeira – Ligações com Parafuso e Barra Rosqueada em Madeira de Eucalyptus pellita e Corymbia citriodora.
2014 > Forestry Expedition: Brazil Norte-Sul Expedition to explore South American biomes. Link
2012 – 2013 > Exchange Program: Forestry Exchange Program at Oregon State University and a summer job as a biomass plant technician.
2012 > Conference Poster: XIll Encontro Brasileiro em Madeira e em Estruturas de Madeira. Resistência à compressão e ao embutimento, e densidade das madeiras de Corymbia citriodora, Eucalyptus pellita E Eucalyptus paniculata.
2011 > Conference Poster: Simpósio de Meio Ambiente e Tecnologia Florestal. Propriedades Físicas da Madeira de Eucalyptus pellita, Eucalyptus paniculata e Corymbia citriodora.
2011 > Conference Poster: XXI Jornada de Iniciação Científica na UFRRJ – Propriedades físicas e mecânicas de Eucalyptus pellita, Eucalyptus paniculata e Corymbia citriodora.
2010 > Conference Presentation: II Simpósio de Ciência e Tecnologia da Madeira do Rio de Janeiro.Estudo das Propriedades Físicas da Madeira de Eucalyptus Paniculata para fins estruturais.
2008 – 2009 > Internship at a nursery of tropical and native trees at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro.
2006 > Conference Presentation at II Education Fair of Science, Technology, and Innovation in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FECTI) with the Edible Plastic Project. Link