bHe holds a bachelor's degree (1997) and a master's degree (2000) in Biosciences and Biotechnology from the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense. He holds a PhD in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (2004) with a Sandwich Doctorate - University of Edinburgh (2003). He has a post-doctorate from the University of Oxford (2004-2008). He works as an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter-UK and is currently a Researcher at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He serves as Deputy General Coordinator of Earth Sciences and coordinates the TREES Research Group (Tropical Ecosystems and Environmental Sciences group). He is the Coordinator of the FAPESP Global Climate Change Program and a permanent member of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences (ACIESP). He is currently the President of the Scientific Committee of the LBA Program and Coordinator of the Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing. He serves as a reviewer for the renowned journals: Nature, Science, PLOS One, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society-B, New Phytologist, Ecological applications, among others. He has published as first author in the journals Science and Nature. In 2006 he was awarded the Merit Award by the University of Oxford, England and the prestigious Fellowship of the Natural Environment Research Council-UK in 2008. He has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Tropical Ecosystems and environmental sciences, with emphasis on Remote Sensing, working mainly on the following themes: carbon dynamics, climate and environmental change, ecosystem and landscape ecology, remote sensing of forest disturbances. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The FAPESP - Shell Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation aims to be a world-class Centre for advanced studies with a focus on innovation towards sustainability and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Centre complements Fapesp's experiences in supporting high-level scientific research and technology development towards these fields. It aims to establish a world-class Centre…
Latin American (LATAM) forests from Brazil, Peru, Argentina and Chile are global epicentres of biological and environmental diversity. LATAM forests are home of Earth's poorest and most vulnerable people and are highly threatened by local anthropogenic disturbance and global environmental change. ARBOLES aims to improve our understanding of LATAM forest response to anthropogenic disturban…
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Understanding changes in aboveground biomass (AGB) stocks in regenerating tropical forests for the purposes of environmental restoration is essential to determine the ecosystem services provided by forests and to support international forest restoration agreements and the UN Decade of Ecological Restoration. This Postdoctoral (PD) grant aims to support research within the Nature Based Sol…
The Brazilian Amazon has already lost about 20 percent of its forest cover due to the advance of deforestation. As a consequence, local climate changes are observed, such as an increase of up to 0.8ºC in temperature and a reduction of 20% in precipitation during the dry season. This PhD project aims to develop a protocol of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for areas in proces…
Amazon forests play an important role in climate regulation through several mechanisms such as decreasing daytime land surface temperature, contributing to convective cloud and rainfall formation, and decreasing dry season severity and length. Extensive deforestation therefore can increase climate risk in Amazon croplands and even croplands in other regions whose rainfall partially depend…
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This project aims to provide estimates of aerosols and GHG over Amazonia using state-of-the-art measurements from sensors onboard orbiting satellites. Such data, however,have not yet been verified against observations from monitoring stations at the earth´ssurface and therefore the differences between the remote sensing and ground samplingtechniques are unknown. We will compare the remote…
The Amazon Forest is an essential component of the global climate system. It consists in ca. 40% of tropical forests, store ca. 120 ± 30 Pg of carbon in biomass, and constantly exchange carbon with the atmosphere by productivity, mortality and decomposition, and also due to deforestation and fires. Our limited knowledge of tree mortality processes constrains our ability to accurately quan…
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Amazon forests play an important role as a source of moisture to rainfall formation across Brazil. With the extensive deforestation in the Amazon during the last decades, many croplands in Brazil whose rainfall partially depends on Amazon forests may be under increased climate risk, as the vast majority of Brazil's croplands are rainfed. Observational evidence for the effect of Amazon def…
Biomass burning is a major source of emission of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. These emissions are often related to broad detrimental impacts including climate change and endangering human health. Therefore, it is necessary to quantify biomass burning emissions accurately for assessing their impact on the environment and human life. However, these estimates are often linke…
LiDAR remote sensing is laser scanning technology which is being extensively used to monitor vast and remote forest areas in recent years. The application, evaluation and improvement of already developed LiDAR processing techniques are thus important to investigate human and climate-induced forest degradation in the Amazon. In this context, the present BEPE project covers all LiDAR-relate…
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