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Team

Lecturers from the Institute of Engineering and Geosciences who run the laboratory and its projects.

Photo: ESA, CarbonARA project

Faculty

Laboratory lecturers

  • Portrait of Julio Tota da Silva

    Julio Tota da Silva

    Coordinator · Atmospheric Sciences

    Meteorologist trained at UFPA, with an MSc in Meteorology from Inpe and a PhD in Climate and Environment from Inpa. He works on atmospheric physics and chemistry and on the exchange of carbon, water and energy between the forest and the air.

    He is the local coordinator of CarbonARA-Brazil and deputy coordinator of the radiosonde tracking project.

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  • Portrait of Helvecio Bezerra Leal Neto

    Helvecio Bezerra Leal Neto

    Professor · Artificial Intelligence

    PhD and MSc in Applied Computing from Inpe and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Ufopa. He works on artificial intelligence and data science applied to environmental monitoring, focusing on automatic storm tracking and very short-range rainfall forecasting.

    He is the author of AmaView.

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  • Antonio Marcos Delfino de Andrade

    Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

    Meteorologist trained at UFAL, where he also completed his MSc, with a PhD in Meteorology from UFCG. He works on micrometeorology, the boundary layer and radiation.

    He is the coordinator of the radiosonde tracking project.

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Collaboration

Collaborating faculty on the projects

  • Portrait of Raoni Aquino Silva de Santana

    Raoni Aquino Silva de Santana

    Institute of Engineering and Geosciences

    Collaborator on the radiosonde tracking project.

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  • Portrait of Theomar Trindade de Araújo Tiburtino Neves

    Theomar Trindade de Araújo Tiburtino Neves

    Amazon Atmospheric Observatory

    Meteorologist trained at UFAL with an MSc from Inpe, experienced in micrometeorology and the atmospheric boundary layer. Collaborator on the radiosonde tracking project.

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Students

Come and work with us

The laboratory welcomes undergraduate students for undergraduate research, internships and final-year projects. The work involves installing and maintaining instruments, fieldwork at the Ufopa Experimental Farm and the Tapajós National Forest, programming and data analysis.

Anyone interested can contact one of the laboratory's lecturers or the Atmospheric Sciences course coordinators.