Mini-curriculum

Osvaldo Cabral as a micrometeorologist is developing studies about the interactions in the soil-plant-atmosphere system with emphasis in agricultural surfaces and land use changes. His career started in the 80´s during the Amazon Region Micrometeorological Experiment (ARME) in Manaus, when he worked with the research team from the Institute of Hydrology (IH-UK now CEH), notably with Professor John Roberts about the tropical forest plant physiology/water relations. In the years 1985 and 1987 he joined the Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment (ABLE) funded by NASA, with Dr. David Fitzjarrald (ASRC-SUNYA) on the investigation of turbulent fluxes of heat and water from the tropical forest. During 1991-1993 he integrated the research team of the Anglo-Brazilian Amazonian Climate Experiment Study (ABRACOS), coordinated by the IH-UK, when the micrometeorology and plant physiology of tropical forests and pastures (Manaus and Rondônia) have been intensively studied. At this time he was header of the Technical Support of the Embrapa Research Center in Manaus, responsible for the laboratories. He is a senior researcher at Embrapa since 1983 and at Meio Ambiente Research Center since 1996, and is developing a tight cooperation with Professor Dr. Humberto Rocha from University of São Paulo, in the FAPESP Thematic Projects about the water and carbon cycle using flux towers in areas of sugar cane, eucalyptus, savanna and tropical Atlantic forest; as well in the ?Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)?, during the establishment of the Tocantins savanna flux tower site.

Education

1977 - 1982

Graduação em Meteorologia

Universidade de São Paulo

Obtained year: 1982

1987 - 1987

Especialização em Agrometeorologia

Universidade de São Paulo

Obtained year: 1987

1993 - 1993

Especialização em Micrometeorologia

Institute Of Hydrology

Title: IN-CANOPY MICROCLIME OF AMAZONIAN FOREST AND ESTIMATES OF TRANSPIRATION

Obtained year: 1993

Advisor: JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS

1989 - 1991

Mestrado em Meteorologia

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

Title: ARMAZENAGEM DE AGUA NUM SOLO COM FLORESTA DE TERRA FIRME E SERINGAL IMPLANTADO

Obtained year: 1991

Advisor: JESUS MARDEN DOS SANTOS

1998 - 2001

Doutorado em Meteorologia

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: O Sistema Solo-Vegetação-Atmosfera:Observação e Modelagem da Cana-de-Açúcar no Estado de SP

Obtained year: 2001

Advisor: Orivaldo Brunini

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Exact and Earth Sciences / Área: Geosciences / Subárea: Meteorology / Especialidade: Climatology
2. Grande área: Exact and Earth Sciences / Área: Geosciences / Subárea: Meteorology / Especialidade: Micrometeorology