Observational experiments of PBAP-IN at Minas Gerais and Paraná States

• Grant number: 20/04137-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: April 01, 2020
• End date: February 28, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Microbiology - Applied Microbiology
• Principal Investigator: Fábio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves
• Grantee: Lara Chaves Carvalho Guerra
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/06160-8 - Sampling and modeling Primary Biological Aerosol Particles (PBAPS) at South-Southern Brazil: associated to improvements of climate models, AP.PFPMCG.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/06865-8 - OBSERVATIONAL EXPERIMENTS OF PBAP-IN AT MINAS GERAIS AND PARANÁ STATES, BE.EP.DD

Abstract

The PhD student will achieve these objectives: to collect, with the help of the aforementioned employees, at the soil level, in different cultures, the existing microbiota; to assist in collecting microbiota on balloon flights; to assess the mechanism of influence of these bio-aerosols in the atmosphere, identifying via ice nucleation tests in PORTABINA; to assist the flow calculus of the microbiota in the soil/atmosphere processes; to quantify the impacts on the clouds of the various bio-aerosols found, carrying out sensitivity tests. (AU)