Patrícia Pinheiro Beck Eichler

I am a Researcher in Biological Oceanography and a Collaborating Professor in the Laboratory of Geodynamics and Marine Geophysics (GGEMMA) in the Department of Geology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). I was classified as Alien of Extraordinary Ability by the United States of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). I have a degree and a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Mackenzie University (1992), a Master's and PhD in Biological Oceanography from the University of São Paulo (2001), with a Post Doctorate at UNISUL from 2002 to 2004, at the Delaware Geological Survey and at the College of Earth, Ocean , and Environment (University of Delaware) from 2005 to 2009, at UFRN do Norte from 2012 to 2014, at Christian Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, CAU-KIEL, Germany (July-August 2012) and at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories of San Jose State University and the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the United States in 2018. I have experience in cruises and oceanographic shipments with the collection of water samples and marine sediment, working on the following topics: Environmental quality assessment using benthic bioindicators in coastal (estuaries, lagoons, hydrographic basins) and marine environments; and heating / cooling sea water; stratigraphic paleontology and micropaleontology. I work in Working Group 1 (Scientific basis of climate change) of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, being one of the main authors of chapter 5 of biogeochemical cycles and climate change. I am a researcher for the international Project Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) funded by CAPES - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel and participated in the expedition at the Western Pacific Warm Pool (http://iodp.tamu.edu/publicinfo/gallery/exp363/) in a senior research internship in the DRI strategic program. I participated in the Antarctic Expedition to assess the environmental impact and quality of the sediment from the Brazilian Research Station on the Frozen continent in 2006. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)