Winners of the 7th MapBiomas Award
The winners of the 7th edition of the MapBiomas Award were announced on July 7, during the 1st MapBiomas User Summit, held at Insper in São Paulo, which brought together users of the platform. This year’s edition recognized nine works and also granted honorable mentions to six other projects.
This year, 180 works competed across the categories General, Youth, School Applications, Business Applications, Public Policy Applications, Actions to Reduce Deforestation, and the new category of the year, Climate Emergency.
The 7th MapBiomas Award distributed a total of R$90,000. Each winner also received an annual subscription to the digital version of Ciência Hoje magazine, a scholarship to attend a satellite image geoprocessing course using Google Earth Engine offered by Solved, and the production of a short video about their work, which can be accessed on the MapBiomas network’s YouTube channel.
See how the award ceremony went here and meet the winners of each category:
GENERAL CATEGORY
1º LUGAR
Eduardo Freitas Moreira & Rafael Barreiro Chaves et al. (Universidade de São Paulo e Semil)
Potencial do serviço ecossistêmico de polinização no estado de São Paulo – https://doi.org/10.11606/9786587773704
2º LUGAR
Lucas Barros da Rosa, Luiza Moura Peluso, Priscila Lemes et al. (University of British Columbia)
The ineffectiveness of current environmental and fire policies in the world’s largest wetland – https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f5
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Guilherme Iablonovski, Henrique Evers (WRI Brasil)
Trinta anos de expansão vertical e horizontal em cidades brasileiras – https://www.wribrasil.org.br/publicacoes/trinta-anos-expansao-vertical-horizontal-cidades-brasileiras
YOUTH CATEGORY
1st PLACE
Laudier Lopes Abreu & Édipo Herique Cremon (Instituto Federal de Goiás)
Explorando variáveis topográficas na análise de susceptibilidade a erosão linear – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/explorando-variaveis-topograficas-na-analise-de-suscetibilidade-a-erosao-linear-artigo-Laudier-Lopes.pdf
2nd PLACE
Shai Oliveira Vaz & Marcelo Sant’Anna (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Can pasture recovery curb deforestation in Brazil? Evidence from a dynamic model – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/can-pasture-recovery-curb-deforestation_TCC_mapbiomas-Shai-Vaz.pdf
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Dulce Maria Trindade Vilanova, Mariana Santos Rodrigues, Irene Barbosa da Fonseca Teixeira (Universidade Federal de Sergipe)
Alerta vermelho: subsidiando estrategicamente a prevenção de dengue com IA em Sergipe – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/Alerta-vermelho-subsidiando-estrategicamente-a-prevencao-de-dengue-com-IA-em-Sergipe-Dulce-Maria-Trindade-Vilanova.pdf
CATEGORIA APLICAÇÕES EM ESCOLAS
WINNER
Alice Arantes Carneiro (Colégio Católica Padre de Man)
Letramento científico na formação cidadã: jovens lideranças em prol da recuperação de nascentes – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/Recuperacao-das-nascentes-do-ribeirao-Ipanema_submissao-Alice-Arantes-Carneiro.pdf
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Cinthia Rodrigues Grecco, Giuliana do Vale Milani, Annebelle Rene Andria (Quero na Escola)
MapBiomas como material para Olimpíada Brasileira de Restauração de Ecossistemas – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/Mapbiomas-como-material-para-Olimpiada-Brasileira-de-Restauracao-de-Ecossistemas-cinthiarodr.pdf
CATEGORIA APLICAÇÕES EM NEGÓCIOS
WINNER
Tatyana Maya Okano, Bruno Reis de Franca, Caio Cesar Dantas et al. (Banco do Brasil)
Potencial de carbono – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/Potencial-de-Carbono-Taty-Okano.pdf
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Priscila Sanjuan de Medeiros Sarmento, Markus Gastauer, Taise Pinheiro (Instituto Tecnológico Vale)
Large-scale forest restoration generates comprehensive biodiversity gains in na Amazonian mining site – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652624004062
CATEGORIA APLICAÇÕES EM POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS
WINNER
Governo do estado de Pernambuco (Agência Estadual de Meio Ambiente – CPRH)
Plataforma Ecológico-Econômica de Pernambuco – https://plataformaecope.cprh.pe.gov.br/
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Paulo Guilherme Molin, Paulo André Tavares, Patrick Faria Fernandes (UFSCar)
Plataforma de Áreas Restauráveis em Unidades de Conservação do Estado de São Paulo – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/Plataforma-de-Areas-Restauraveis-em-UCs-do-Estado-de-Sao-Paulo-2-Paulo-Guilherme-Molin.pdf
CATEGORIA EMERGÊNCIA CLIMÁTICA
WINNER
Viviane Dib da Silva, Fernando Resende, Stella Manes et al. (Instituto Internacional para Sustentabilidade)
A nature-based solutions framework for managing environmental disaster risks – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/A-nature-based-solutions-framework-for-managing-environmental-disasters-risk-Texto_Premio_Mapbiomas_2025-Viviane-Dib.pdf
MENÇÃO HONROSA
Igor Rodrigues Henud, Alain Alves Póvoa, Mariana Gonçalves Tavares (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Coastal resilience and adaptation strategies: Natural habitats for coastal protection and Atlantic forest restoration on the coast of the Rio de Janeiro state – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104861
CATEGORIA COMBATE AO DESMATAMENTO
WINNER
Carlos Eduardo Quezada Lambertin, Roberto Navia, Stanislaw Czaplicki (Universidad Católica Boliviana & Revista Nómadas)
El epicentro de la deforestación em Bolivia: impactos socioecológicos e impunidade em San Ignacio de Velasco – https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/08/el-epicentro-de-la-deforestacion-in-Bolivia.pdf
Learn more about the categories
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Any work eligible for the MapBiomas Award can compete in this category. Works submitted in other categories automatically also compete in the General Category.
Only works whose author(s) are up to 30 years old and have either not yet completed their undergraduate degree or graduated in 2023. -
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in public policy projects.
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in businesses that contribute to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. -
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative to support actions to reduce, combat and monitor deforestation.
Works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in basic education (kindergarten, elementary or high school), such as, for example, in teaching materials, classes and other curricular and extracurricular activities or teaching resources in schools.
Award
Awards for each category were distributed as follows:
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General Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of R$ 15,000.00 Fifteen thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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1st
PLACE
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Young Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of R$ 5,000.00 Five thousand reais
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1st
PLACE
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Highlight Applications in Public Policies
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Highlight Applications in Business
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Highlight Applications in Schools
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Actions to Reduce Deforestation
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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Climate Emergencies Category
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Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
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All winners will be awarded an annual subscription to Revista Ciência Hoje Digital, in addition to a scholarship to take a course on Geoprocessing of satellite images using Google Earth Engine promoted by Solved, and the production of a short video (up to 2 minutes ) about the winning work.
If you have any questions, please send an email to premio@mapbiomas.org
Previous editions
All winners of previous editions
