Majoi de Novaes Nascimento

Graduated in biological sciences from Universidade Guarulhos (2006), I got my Bachelors in Biological sciences and education from Universidade Guarulhos, SP, Brazil in 2006. In 2012 I completed my master's degree at Sao Paulo Botanical Institute, using water chemistry and diatom ecology to identify sources of organic pollution in a water supply system in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Currently, I am PhD student at Florida Institute of Technology and my research focuses on South American ecology and the vegetation responses to paleoclimate changes. I am trying to understand what the role of Atlantic versus Pacific influences was on the hydrological patterns of tropical South America during the last 12 thousand years, and how they affected the vegetation at different elevations. Another question addressed by my research is how the later arriving of human populations affected the landscape. I use three proxies to answer these questions: pollen, diatoms, and charcoal. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)