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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Geologist graduated from UFBA (1987), with a master's degree in Geophysics from UFPA (1991), a PhD in Geosciences and Environment from UNESP Rio Claro (1999), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Geophysics from Western Michigan University, United States (2005). He has been a professor at the Department of Geophysics, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) at the University of São Paulo (USP) since 1998. He was an Associate Professor from 2009 to April 2015, and since May 2015, he has been a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo. He has been a researcher at CNPq since 2007, holding the 1D researcher position from 2010 to 2018, then 1C from 2018 to 2022, and currently holds the 1D position again. He served as head of the Department of Geophysics at IAG/USP from May 2009 to May 2013. He was Vice-President of the Research Commission at IAG/USP from July 2019 to September 2020, and from October 2020 to June 2023, he was President of the Research Commission at IAG/USP and a member of the Research Council at USP. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Geophysics at IAG/USP (April 2023 to April 2025). He established the Test Site (SCGR-I) at IAG/USP in 2002 with support from FAPESP, and in 2016, he established SCGR-II with support from COMGÁS. He coordinated a Development Research Project for CNPq-PVE and several research projects supported by FAPESP in areas such as archaeology, mineral exploration, hydrogeology, and urban planning. He currently coordinates a Research Project Support by FAPESP related to Underwater Archaeological Studies in Eastern Amazon using GPR, Side Scan Sonar, and Bathymetry methods. He is the Principal Investigator in the CCD-Center for Science and Development project focusing on Water and Food Security in Critical Zones in São Paulo State. He has provided consultancy services to PETROBRAS, ANEEL, METRÔ-Consórcio Via Amarela, PETROGAL, COMGÁS, and Mineração Corrêa Ltda. He has supervised various research projects in Scientific Initiation, Undergraduate Theses, Master's, PhD, and Postdoctoral studies. He has taught various GPR courses at universities and companies, covering the physical and mathematical principles of GPR, as well as its main applications and limitations. He participated in humanitarian geophysical work to optimize search efforts in the area affected by the dam collapse in Brumadinho, MG. He has dozens of articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. His expertise lies in Geosciences, with emphasis on Applied Geophysics for geological, geotechnical, environmental, hydrogeological, natural resource exploration, urban planning, and archaeological studies. His research interests include GPR-Ground Penetrating Radar, TDEM-Time Domain Electromagnetics, ER-Electrical Resistivity, and MT-Magnetotellurics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Archaeological evidences in the Amazon region are rare to be found due to the soil acidity in this large biome. The leaching of the soil, caused by torrential rains, destroys the archaeological remains. However, an unusual type of archaeological site in the region, formed by societies that built stilt houses in the middle of rivers and lakes, is very promising in terms of understanding ho…
One of the great challenges of Small Scale Mining is related to the maximum extraction of mineral resources in an efficient, clean and sustainable way, and with a minimum of tailings and environmental impacts. To achieve this optimum relationship between mineral extraction/tailings- environmental impacts it is necessary to have detailed knowledge of the subsurface geology in the region co…
Archaeological evidence of the shape of the Amazonian indigenous villages in the pre-colonial period is rare to be found because of the acidity of the soil of this great Amazon biome. Stilt marks quickly deteriorate in the soil because of the soil leaching caused by torrential rain. However, in the case of stilt villages, due to the fact that archaeological materials are in a bed within r…
Designed as an integrated research program involving both Brazilian and UK researchers 'Nordeste' will attempt to redress this neglect: 1. Through the establishment of a permanent plot network similar to that existing in moist tropical forests allowing measurements of Caatinga canopy structure and dynamics and both their short- and long-term responses to climate change to be evaluated. 2.…
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This research is part of a pioneering project that is being developed with support of FAPESP (2023/16834-0). In this research, the student will go process and interpret GPR data on the underwater archaeological Cajari Lake, municipality of Penalva, Maranhão wetland, eastern Amazon. The objective of this research is to map the wooden pillars of stilt villages built on the beds of rivers an…
This research is part of a pioneering project that is being developed with support from FAPESP (2023/16834-0). In this research, the student will go process and interpret GPR data on the underwater archaeological site Formoso Lake, located in the Maranhão wetlands, eastern Amazon. The objective is to map the wooden pillars of stilt villages built on the beds of rivers and lakes by pre-col…
Disorderly urban expansion and human interference in natural resources threaten the balance of terrestrial ecosystems. The pollution of surface and underground waters, as well as extreme weather events are consequences of the unsustainable exploitation of the Earth's natural resources. Studies indicate that pollution and deforestation in the so-called Critical Zones are the main factors t…
This post-doctoral research project is part of two individual projects: one supported by FAPESP (2020/15560-5) and the other by FAPEMA (02856/20). Pieces of tree trunks on the lake and river beds are evidence of pre-colonial indigenous populations in the Amazon region. In the entire American continent, these pieces of tree trunks are the only archaeological remnants of pre-colonial settle…
The GPR-Ground Penetrating Radar method has been widely used by researchers for location of underground objects due to its high resolution and quick data acquisition. Until the late 1990 decade tree roots were treated as a noise source and they were discarded as anomalies of interest in radargrams. In the last decade researchers began to use the GPR method as a suitable tool for systemati…
Ambiguities are always present in the interpretation of geophysical data. One way to reduce this unwanted feature is the use of more than one research method in order to obtain a redundancy of information in the studied area. Through the combined inversion of data is possible to make an integrated interpretation of results from different methods. The inversion of the data is made more eff…
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This research Project proposes a study in the development of microwave tomographic reconstruction technique. This techinque will be studied as a tool for processing and analysis of GPR data for forensic and archaeological investigations. Geophysical data inversion will be studied in order to evaluate the possibility of electromagnetic properties estimation integrated with microwave tomogr…
The project will be held at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, for a period of nine months under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Fernando Acacio Monteiro dos Santos. Professor Fernando is already familiar with this research since it acts as co-supervisor of the Thesis Project. This season at the University of Lisbon has as main activities the development of algorithms for the forward modeli…
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