I am an environmental geochemist who strives to connect the ecological and social dimensions of environmental issues. My research focuses on global environmental change and sustainable development in the southwestern Amazon Basin. I coordinate Woodwell Climate’s work dealing with climate change and land use in the tri-national southwestern Amazonia region. I am currently involved in monitoring air quality impacts of deforestation-fueled fires, and have taken an active role in disaster risk reduction and Civil Defense activities in this region.
I spent over twenty years as a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Environmental Geochemistry at the Federal Fluminense University in Niteroi, Brazil, and I am currently on the faculty of the Federal University of Acre, Brazil.
