Brazil
Angelo Antonio Agostinho
Institution: Maringá State University
Webpage: -
Email: agostinhoaa@nupelia.uem.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: Paraná-Paraguay and Amazon basins
Keywords: Environmental governance, Conservation policy, Sustainable livelihoods
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: English
Moacyr Araujo
Institution: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE
Webpage: www.ufpe.br
Email: moa.ufpe@gmail.com / vice-reitor@ufpe.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: South America
Keywords: Physic and chemistry of the environment
IAI themes: -
Languages: English and French
Irene M. Astor
Institution: Fundación la Salle de Ciencias Naturales Campus Margarita (EDIMAR)
Webpage: -
Email: yrene.astor@yahoo.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, USA, Venezuela
Region (s) of expertise: Caribbean Sea
Keywords: carbonate system trends, oceanographic time series, air-ocean CO2 exchange
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and English
Alisson F. Barbieri
Institution: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Webpage: -
Email: barbieri@cedeplar.ufmg.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Demography, climate change, vulnerability, adaptation, urban, Amazon health, land use and land cover change
IAI themes: -
Languages: English and Portuguese
Ernesto Hugo Berbery
Institution: University of Maryland
Webpage: -
Email: berbery@atmos.umd.edu / berbery@umd.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Regional Climate, Hydroclimate
IAI themes:
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and English
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
Institution: Senior Vice President research networks, Elsevier, UK and Professor Emeritus University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
Webpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chbritocruz/
Email: brito@ifi.unicamp.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, UK
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Bioenergy, renewable energy
IAI themes: -
Languages: English, Portuguese, Italian
Gilberto Câmara
Institution: Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Webpage: https://gilbertocamara.org/
Email: gilberto.camara@inpe.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Geoinformatics, Land Use Change, Environmental Policy, Governance
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Edmo J.D. Campos
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Webpage: -
Email: edmo@usp.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: South and Tropical Atlantic
Keywords: South Atlantic, AMOC, SAMOC, SAMBA
IAI themes:
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, and Portuguese
Fernando Casanoves
Institution: Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE)
Webpage: https://www.catie.ac.cr/
Email: casanoves@catie.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Omar Defeo
Institution: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
Webpage: http://undecimar.fcien.edu.uy/
Email: odefeo@fcien.edu.uy / omar.defeo@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Fisheries, climate change, artisanal fishing, adaptation, coastal management, beaches
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Guilherme Fernandes Marques
Institution: Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Webpage: https://www.ufrgs.br/warp/
Email: Guilherme.marques@ufrgs.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Canada, Chile
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Ecosystem services, fisheries, fish production, dams
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Energy security
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
María Elena Fernández Long
Institution: Facultad de Agronomía, UBA, Argentina
Webpage: https://ciag.agro.uba.ar/index
Email: flong@agro.uba.ar
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: Pampean Region
Keywords: Droughts, soil moisture, frost, agrometeorology, climate change
IAI themes:
Food security
Water safety
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish
Alice Marlene Grimm
Institution: Universidade Federal do Parana
Webpage:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alice-Grimm/research
https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YKvH2tYAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR
http://lattes.cnpq.br/8783652264979787
Email: grimm@fisica.ufpr.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: South America and global
Keywords: Climate variability from intraseasonal to interdecadal time scales; Dynamical mechanisms of regional impacts of climate oscillations; Predictability; Teleconnections; Extreme events; Climate change and its regional impacts
IAI themes:
Food security
Climate action
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish
Antonio Divino Moura
Institution: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Brazil
Webpage: -
Email: divinoeeufmg@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: South America
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Climate action
Languages: English and Portuguese
Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Institution: Michigan Technological University
Webpage: https://www.mtu.edu/research/people-departments/staff/vprdev/halvorsen-k/
Email: kehalvor@mtu.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: North and South America
Keywords: Transdisciplinary science, team science, research development, research compliance, climate change policy, energy policy
IAI themes:
Energy security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and English
Dirceu Luis Herdies
Institution: CPTEC, Brazil
Webpage: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3752951275341381
Email: dirceu.herdies@inpe.br / dherdies@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: South America
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Food security
Energy security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Poverty and Equity
Languages: English and Portuguese
Carlos Joly
Institution: Universidad de Campinas
Webpage: https://www.bpbes.net.br/
Email: cjoly@unicamp.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Brazilian Atlantic Forest, biodiversity conservation, science-policy interface
IAI themes: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Languages: English, Portuguese
Milton Kampel
Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Webpage: -
Email: milton.kampel@inpe.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, USA, Venezuela
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Ocean, coastal, inland waters remote sensing, aquatic ecosystem services, land-ocean interactions, air-sea interactions, Southwestern
IAI themes:
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Health and well-being
Languages: English and Portuguese
Kam-biu Liu
Institution: Louisiana State University, Dept. of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences
Webpage: -
Email: kliu1@lsu.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: U.S.A. (including Puerto Rico), Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Dominican Republic
Region (s) of expertise: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean region, Baja California, Central America, Amazonia, Andes
Keywords: Paleotempestology, paleoecology, coastal environmental changes, paleoclimatology, hurricanes, mangroves, sediments, wetlands, lakes, lagoons, ice cores
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: English
Betina Lomovasky
Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; CONICET, UNMDP
Webpage: https://www.iimyc.gob.ar/iimyc/es/grupos-de-investigacion/grupo-emccc/
Email: lomovask@mdp.edu.ar
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Fisheries, yellow clam, climate change, small-scale fishery, adaptation, ocean acidification, SDG 14.3
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Víctor O. Magaña Rueda
Institution: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Webpage: -
Email: victormr@servidor.unam.mx
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Alexandra Mallett
Institution: Carleton University
Webpage: https://carleton.ca/sppa/alexandra-mallett/
Email: alexandramallett@cunet.carleton.ca
Country (ies) of expertise: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: North America, South America
Keywords: Design and implementation of sustainable energy, environment, natural resources and climate policy, low carbon technology cooperation, innovation, science and technology policies, changes in the Canadian North
IAI themes:
Energy security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English and French
Facundo Damián Martín García
Institution: CONICET
Webpage: -
Email: fdmartingarcia@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, USA
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: -
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish
Edgar Mayeregger
Institution: Ministerio de Agricultura, Paraguay – Coordinador Nacional de la Unidad de Gestión de Riesgos (UGR)
Webpage: www.mag.gov.py/unidaddegestionderiesgos
Email: shalom19@gmail.com / edgar.mayeregger@mag.gov.py
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA, México, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Turquía, Bharat (India), Israel, amongst others.
Region (s) of expertise: South America, Central America
Keywords: Agrometeorology, risk management, early warning, anticipatory action plan, agroclimatic technical tables, agricultural insurance, sustainable use of water on farmers' farms, information for decision making
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and Portuguese
Francisco J. Meza
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Webpage: -
Email: fmeza@uc.cl
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish
Patricia Morellato
Institution: UNESP, FAPESP
Webpage: -
Email: patricia.morellato@unesp.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, South America tropical and Subtropical countries, Mexico
Region (s) of expertise: Neotropics, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, Spain Mediterranean
Keywords: Plant ecology, phenology, plant-animal interactions, pollination, conservation, climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish, English, and Portuguese
Jose H. Muelbert
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Webpage: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8085929420978720
Email: jmuelbert@furg.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Marine ecology, conservation, climate change, coastal system, ocean observation
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: English
Elke Noellemeyer
Institution: Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
Webpage: http://www.agsus.org/
Email: noellemeyer@agro.unlpam.edu.ar / enoellemeyer@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: South America, Semiarid and subhumid regions, Loess soils
Keywords: Sustainable soil management, Soil ecosystem services, carbon cycle, carbon sequestration certification, visual assessment of soil quality, soil types and relationship with the landscape, environment or site-specific management, reclamation of saline soils
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish and English
Jean Pierre H.B. Ometto
Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Brasil)
Webpage: -
Email: jean.ometto@inpe.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, USA, Venezuela
Region (s) of expertise: Tropical South America
Keywords: Climate impact risk, climate change, global environmental change, ecosystems resilience, forest restoration, carbon and nitrogen cycles
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish (basic), English, Portuguese
Victor Raul Pacheco Torres
Institution: Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Webpage: https://vrip.unmsm.edu.pe/dimapa/
Email: vpachecot@unmsm.edu.pe
Country (ies) of expertise: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia
Region (s) of expertise: Neotropics, Latin America
Keywords: Diversity, conservation, environmental impact, mammals
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Languages: Spanish and English
William Pan
Institution: Duke University
Webpage: -
Email: william.pan@duke.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Panama, Honduras
Region (s) of expertise: Amazon, Darien, Peruvian coast (Tumbes), Ecuador highlands
Keywords: Infectious disease, malaria, dengue, climate, land use/land cover change, gold mining, logging, mercury exposure, mercury bioaccumulation, tipping points, ENSO, chronic disease, child health, migration, fertility
IAI themes:
Food security
Health and well-being
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Poverty and Equality
Languages: English
Willington Pavan
Institution: University of Florida, USA
Webpage: https://abe.ufl.edu/people/faculty/willingthon-pavan/
Email: pavan@upf.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Crop Modeling, disease modeling, digital agriculture, early warning systems
IAI themes: -
Languages: English and Portuguese
Alberto Piola
Institution: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
Webpage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5003-8926
Email: apiola@hidro.gov.ar
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: Atlantic Ocean
Keywords: Climate change, ocean circulation, oceanic fronts
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Valentín Picasso
Institution: Universidad de la República y University of Wisconsin
Webpage: https://foragesandperennialgrains.agronomy.wisc.edu/
Email: vpicasso@gmail.com / picassorisso@wisc.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: Fields and pampas, Midwest USA
Keywords: Resilience, climate change, pastures, perennial crops, forage crops, agroecosystems, alfalfa, kernza, tinopiro, silvopastoralism, production systems, transdisciplinary
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish and English
Patricia Pinho
Institution: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia, Brasília - DF
Webpage: https://ipam.org.br/o-ipam/equipe/
Email: patricia.pinho@iag.usp.br
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, USA, Venezuela
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes: -
Languages: English
Jeremy Pittman
Institution: School of the Environment, University of Waterloo
Webpage: -
Email: jpittman@uwaterloo.ca
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Uruguay, Dominica, Saint Lucia
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Environmental governance, Conservation policy, Sustainable livelihoods
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Health and wellness
Poverty and equality
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: English
Guillermo Podesta
Institution: Independent Scholar
Webpage: -
Email: gpodesta@earth.miami.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Climate information, climate services, socio-ecological systems modeling, decision making, agricultural production
IAI themes:
Food security
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and English
Carlos Portillo-Quintero
Institution: Texas Tech University
Webpage: www.parktrends.org
Email: carlos.portillo@ttu.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, USA
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America, Southwest USA.
Keywords: Forest ecology, forest conservation, remote sensing, geographic information systems, land use and land cover change
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish and English
Sara Purca
Institution: Instituto del Mar del Perú
Webpage: https://www.gob.pe/imarpe
Email: spurca@imarpe.gob.pe
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords: Plastic pollution, climate change, eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems
IAI themes:
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: Spanish and English
Juan Robalino
Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Costa Rica
Webpage: -
Email: juan.robalino@ucr.ac.cr
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Costa Rica, México y Guatemala
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America
Keywords: Environmental economics, labor economics, economics of climate change
IAI themes:
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Poverty and Equity
Languages: Spanish and English
Galia Selay
Institution: Consorcio Salud del Bosque-ECOSCONSULT
Webpage: -
Email: gselaya@outlook.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Forest fires, economic losses, health, migration, air quality
IAI themes:
Climate action
Languages: Spanish
Juan F Silva Armas
Institution: Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela), Instituto Fondo Verde (Perú) y Universidad Centro Panamericano de Estudios Superiores (México)
Webpage: -
Email: juansilvaarmas@gmail.com / jsilva@ula.ve
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Venezuela, Chile
Region (s) of expertise: Latin America and the Caribbean
Keywords: Sustainability, climate change, environment, ecosystem services, emissions trading, green finance, sustainable development
IAI themes:
Food security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish and English
Amaury Tilmant
Institution: Université Laval
Webpage: www.hydroeconomics.com
Email: amaury.tilmant@gci.ulaval.ca
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Canada, Chile
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: Ecosystem services,
fisheries, fish production, hydropower generation
IAI themes:
Food security
Energy security
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Clean air, water, and soil
Languages: English and French
Micaela Trimble
Institution: Instituto Sudamericano para Estudios sobre Resiliencia y Sostenibilidad – SARAS
Webpage: https://saras-institute.org/es/asociados/
Email: mica.trimble@saras-institute.org
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
Region (s) of expertise: Southern Cone
Keywords: Water governance, adaptation, participation, transdisciplines, artisanal fishing
IAI themes:
Water security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Catherine Tucker
Institution: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Webpage: https://people.clas.ufl.edu/tuckerc/
Email: tuckerc@ufl.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Honduras, Mexico, Peru, (and to a lesser degree: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia)
Region (s) of expertise: Central and South America, and Mexico
Keywords: Economic and environmental anthropology, Environmental governance, political ecology, community-based conservation, institutional analysis, climate change adaptation, coffee production, value chains, belief systems, sustainability, indigenous ecological knowledge, agroforestry"
IAI themes: -
Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese (basic)
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Institution: Center for Nuclear Energy applied to Agriculture / University of Sao Paulo (CENA/USP)
Webpage: -
Email: reynaldo.victoria@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
Institution: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Knowledge Center for Biodiversity
Webpage: -
Email: gw.fernandes@gmail.com
Country (ies) of expertise: Brazil, Argentina, México, USA, Spain, Namibia
Region (s) of expertise: Tropical and Temperate regions
Keywords: Biodiversity, climate change, restoration ecology, plant-animal
interactions, community structure, policy, ecosystem services
IAI themes:
Food security
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Climate action
Languages: Spanish, English, and Portuguese
Xiangming Xiao
Institution: University of Oklahoma
Webpage: https://www.ceom.ou.edu
Email: xiangming.xiao@ou.edu
Country (ies) of expertise: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, USA
Region (s) of expertise: -
Keywords: -
IAI themes: -
Languages: English and Chinese