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Nigeria

Adefunke Fadilat Olawunmi Ayinde fadilatayinde@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | University of Cape Town (UCT)

All the research projects of my degrees have been revolving round improving the farmers’ lot through paying attention to rural administrative issues. My first degree project was titled ‘asses-sment of the linkage between input supply unit and extension services of OGADEP in Ifo LGA (in the South-western region of Nigeria)’, My second degree dissertation was titled ‘sustainability of Ogun state Agricultural Development Programme (OGADEP) women groups’ while the third degree’s thesis was titled, ‘analysis of ageing farming population and agricultural productivity among Cassava Farmers in Rural Areas of Ogun and Ekiti States, Nigeria’. Further,in a bid to help help upgrade farming as a lucrative profession to all and thus ensure successor generation of farmers, I have based my present research on seeking to understand the perception of the small--holder farmers on climate variability (causes and effect), identifying adaptation strategies adop-ted by the farmers and brought forward by the government to help ameliorate the effect of climate variability. Also, capacity-building of women and youth (vulnerable group) on climate adaptation decision and training will also be assessed as well as the changing livelihood of farmers in the face of climate variability. Arable crop farmers is being focused on due to the fact that stable food production, especially cassava-based (which is commonly inter-cropped with maize) is a central core for improving food sustainability in the country.

Brazil

Adriana Ferrer Martins drifer@gmail.comOther: will start PhD program in 2018 | Faculdade de Jaguariúna

In the master’s degree I studied ecology of forest ecosystems, through forest restoration pro-jects. After the master’s degree I began to study meteorology and climatology to offer a course in the Jaguariúna faculty. I want to reconcile these two knowledge in a project on ecosystem ecology and climate change.

Venezuela

Adriana Giuliante Pompetti giuliante@gmail.comPhD candidate | Venezuelan Institute for Scientific ResearchI have worked in the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) since 2005, and my functions have been research, development, planning and coordination of relevant projects in the area of environment adapted to the needs of my country: -Biogenic emissions to the Venezuelan atmosphere: emissions of greenhouse gases; Such as nitrous oxide, methane and carbon monoxi-de; - Chemical characterization of the Venezuelan atmosphere: in natural and rural areas where determinations of the concentrations of gases and rain that affect the chemical reactivity of the at-mosphere and the radiative balance (greenhouse effect); - Responsible for the IVIC of the “Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean” (CARIACO) project led by the La Salle Foundation and the University of South Florida (USF).; - Co-investigator of the project “Effects of the export of carbon in the ri-vers of Venezuela due to the change of land use”. Conducted by IVIC and Rice University, Houston, Texas; - Academic participation of the project “Chemistry and microbiology of the biogenic flows of trace gases in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system in Venezuelan ecosystems”; - Academic participation of the project “Evaluation of nitrogen cycling in tropical coastal ecosystems and ecosystems. Implications for the mitigation of emissions of nitrogenous gases from agriculture and for global tropospheric chemistry”; - Co-investigator of the project “”Study of the interactions of carbon dioxide between the surface of tropical aquatic ecosystems and the low troposphere””; - Academic participation of the Project funded by the Inter-American Institute of Climate Change (IAI): Nitrogen Cycling in Latin America: Drivers, Impacts and Vulnerabilities (Nnet). Third Colla-borative Research Network (CRN3) third collaborative research network project program”

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Uganda

Alex Zizinga azizinga@caes.mak.ac.ugPhD candidate | Makerere UniversityI hold Post Graduate Masters Diploma Certiificate in Climate change Studies from University of Dar es Salaam ane University of Reading in the UK and a Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources from Makerere University. I poses a wealthy of knowleage and experience in Natural Resource Management especially related to fresh water resources and Land (plants and soil for GHGs) of over 8 years in climate change and environmental related research activities across the East African region. In have also worked as a consultant with various international organisations and a researcher on several projects where my skills and experiences are embeded including; - 2015-2016: Evidence-based opportunities for out-scaling climate-smart agriculture and Food security in East Africa, Uganda and Kenya; - July 2016 – February 2017: Assessing Histo-rical and current land use systems as well as the Drivers of different land use options in selected representative landscapes. International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Kampala Uganda; - February 2015 – July 2015 - Agriculture Sector Scoping Study: Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Stocks to Facilitate Preparation of Climate Change Mitigation Measures, including NAMAs in Uganda (Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries under the Belgian Technical Cooperation Funding) ; - April 2015 – October 2015 - An assessment of adaptive capacity of agricultural households to climate in the Lake Kyoga basin in Uganda; - December 2012 – January 2013 – Reducing vulnerability to climatic variations in Mt. Elgon ecosystems through micro ecosystem management [Lusha Sub county Bulambuli District] – ECODEF; - January 2009 – December 2011 – Assessment of Cities and Climate Change in Kampala – Sud-Net Cities in Clima-te Change Initiative (CCCI) – UNHabitat Urban Environmental and Planning Branch (UNHabitat Consultancy); - June 2008 – August 2008 – Enhancing community resilience to climate change and variability in Bunambutye Sub County Sironko District. (UNDP Baseline survey) ; - 2014-todate: Climate Smart Agriculture for sustainable crop yield in semi arid areas of Karamoja and Albertine Graben, Hoima- Uganda; - 2013-2014: Assessment of impacts of climate change on fresh water quality – participatory water quality monitoring, Germany Embassy Uganda supported project, Kiha Watershed Uganda; - 2013: Graduate Research Assistant on Agricultural Model Inter-Com-parison and Improvement Project (AGMIP) and Integrated Watershed Management, Department of Agriculture Production, Makerere University, Funded by (ICRISAT), Uganda and Ethiopia.

Brazil

Alexandre do Nascimento Souza alenascimento@usp.brPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP)

I have obtained PhD by the Postgraduate Program in Environmental Science of the University of São Paulo (PROCAM) in May 2015. My doctoral dissertation is aimed on Environmental Gover-nance, with emphasis on Water Governance. As a fellow of the Science without Borders Program, I had the opportunity to join the Environment and Society Program at the Institute of Behavioral Science at Colorado University in Boulder, in the quality of researcher. This two and a half years experience contributed to broader my understanding of the environmental subject for during this period I had the opportunity to participate in sundry debates, lectures and symposia with empha-sis on environmental governance. The city of Boulder, CO is largely recognized for its numerous policies committed to environmental quality. In the last five years I have started to study climate change. I wrote as a co-author the chapter Governança Ambiental in the Incline`s book “Ciências das Mudanças Climáticas e sua interdiscplinaridade”. Now I am a pos-doctor student at the Insti-tuto de Energia e Ambiente – IEE/USP. I have worked with Climate Change Communicate. For the doctorate dissertation I applied the academic scopes of Environmental Governance, Social Lear-ning, Risk Society, Public Economy, Analysis of Institution Development and Public Choice. With this theoretical apparatus, I analyzed the IWRM of the State of São Paulo. For the master grade thesis, also defended in PROCAM-USP, I applied the theoretical scopes of Ecological Moderniza-tion and New Public Sphere. Thus focused I analyzed the conflicts related to the environmental licensing of large infrastructure projects in Brazil, with emphasis on the hydroelectric sector. Du-ring the processes of master’s and doctor’s degrees I published articles in scientific journals and collaborated for book chapters regarding the electric sector, aimed on socio-environmental con-flicts related to hydropower and the expansion of the hydroelectric matrix in the Amazon. As the program developed, my publications have come to reflect on questions aimed at Environmental Governance, Water Governance, Social Learning, and Climate Change. I have a nine years partici-pation in research and intervention activities developed by the Group of Research and Monitoring of Environmental Governance of USP (GovAmb) under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Pedro Roberto Jacobi.

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Brazil

Allan Sandes de Oliveira lansandes@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

I’m currently a Post-Doc in the Ocean and Earth Dynamics Program at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. In my PhD thesis I analyzed a unique sediment core at the Amazon Con-tinental Margin, and worked on Quaternary biostratigraphy and isotopic stratigraphy contribu-ting to the recognition of the Quaternary paleoclimate evolution of the Equatorial Margin.

Brazil

Álvaro Javier Ávila Díaz alvaroaviladiaz@outlook.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)

Doctoral student in Applied Meteorology with experience in researching, consulting and im-plementation of projects in the area of water resources (hydrometeorology), climate change and climate variability. My current research has been focused on the variations in frequency, intensity, and duration of precipitation extremes over the mountains in Latin America. I have skills in the management of statistics tools, analysis and processing of climatological data, analysis of hydro--climatic variables and geographic analysis. Capacity and experience in teamwork, coordination of projects and preparation of research and academic events. Personal skills, creativity, analysis and synthesis capabilities, ease of integration into working environments, high level of commitment and responsibility, disposal to learning and working at high-pressure levels. During my career I have contributed to a broad range of research projects in Colombia at the research Group Soil and Water Management (IREHSA in Spanish), and also during my undergraduate and graduate studies I have published a number of papers related to hydrology , climate change impacts and climate variability and analysis of detection and attribution of climate change.”

Brazil

Amanda Gerotto gerottoamanda@gmail.comMaster student | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

I used to work with taphonomy of marine invertebrates regarding the paleoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene on the southern Brazilian coast. I’m currently working with late Quaternary planktonic foraminifera data from samples from the IODP Exp 349 - South China SeaTectonics and a 12 PF census records for the last 20 ka obtained from cores retrieved from the SCS. My current work envolves the application of the PF fauna on sea surface temperatures and mixed layer depth changes during the Late Quaternary regarding the spatial-temporal patterns of the East Asian Monsoon over the South China Sea. Other skills: Experience in laboratory and field sampling; Good knowledge of Paleontological Statistics (PAST); Good knowledge of R program-ming; Computer literate in Microsoft Office (Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint).

Brazil

Amanda Rehbein salvati.rehbein@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)

I am graduated in Meteorology from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil (2014) and Master of Science degree (2016, Meteorology) at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) at the University of São Paulo (USP). I am currently a PhD student at IAG/USP under the advisement of Professor Tercio Ambrizzi. My research theme is Mesoscale Con-vective Systems over the Amazon basin: present climate and future projections in climate change scenarios. I am the coordinator of the Group of Climate Studies (GrEC) of IAG/USP, which is compo-sed of graduate and undergraduate students. Our group (GrEC) is focused on researching climate. We have a monthly meeting and presentation to discuss the climate variability on to improve our knowledge on this topic (www.grec.iag.usp.br).

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Brazil

André Araújo Bürger andre-burger@hotmail.comMaster student | Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IF/USP)

I have started studying physics as undergraduate student in 2009 and in 2010 I have joined the group of ionizing radiation applying metrological standards at group X-ray tube until 2012 when I left the group and had been contracted as intern at Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas de São Paulo (SP) in the Laboratory of Optical and Electrical equipments that focused on meet indus-trial demand for light standardization. After I graduated in Physics (2013) I have started Master Degree Program at Institute of Physics of Sao Paulo developing my work about the evaluation of Manaus aerosol impact on its vicinities through the use of receptor models.

Argentina

Andrea Soledad Enriquez enriquez.andrea@inta.gob.arPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (INTA – CONICET)

My research interests include General Ecology and Soil Science. Particularly I am interested in wetland environments, where I performed most of my under degree and postgraduate activities. In wetlands of the arid and semiarid areas, where the grazing activity is added to the climatic adversities, I studied C and N cycling (biogeochemistry). At present I approach the subject of Cli-mate Change, evaluating the effects of open-top passive warming chambers on soil respiration, C cycling, and GHG’s emissions in meadows of the semi-arid steppe in Patagonia (post-doc). With Professor Johan Six who leads the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group in the Department of En-vironmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, I also performed Carbon Cycling modeling and soil organic matter fractionation techniques.

Russia

Anna Bobrik ann-bobrik@yandex.ruPhD candidate | Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

I am ANNA BOBRIK, a PhD student from Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). I’m soil scientist-ecologist and my research interests are focused on the car-bon cycle, climate change, greenhouse gases effluxes, biodiversity of peatlands and bogs, perma-frost-affected soils and transition ecosystems in the changing world. My PhD projects focus on the north taiga and forest tundra ecosystems of Yamal, Russia. During last 7 years every summer, I participated in complex expeditions on North of Western Siberia. This is one part of my work. The second part is laboratory experiments. So I have good researching skills in field as well as in la-boratory. My Technical Skills in Ecology and Soil Science: Methods of basal respiration, substrate--induced respiration, field chamber methods and other laboratory and field methods for measu-rement of soil biology activity. Chloroform fumigation–extraction method (measuring microbial carbon in soils). Gas chromatography (composition of greenhouse gases in soils). IT (OS: Windows & Linux): Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and etc.), Math Statistics, Surfer, PhotoShop, InkScape and etc.

Argentina

Anthony Andre Victor Schrapffer schrapff.ant@gmail.comPhD candidate | Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmosfera, Universidad de Buenos Aires (CNRS

– CONICET – UBA)

I have studied other areas related to Climate Change during my previous academic and profes-sional experiences. I have a French civil engineering degree with specialization in Environment and Energy, so I am familiar with the evaluation of carbon footprint and with the environmental and energy issues. I have been studying environmental engineering in Brazil for a semester, so I am familiar with environmental problematics in Latin America. I have been in internship in an environmental consulting company (I Care & Consult in Paris) where I have studied subjects be-longing to Climate Change mitigation thematics such as circular economy, renewable energies and the environmental aspects of transport.

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India

Anubhab Pattanayak anubhab.pattanayak@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Madras School of Economics

I have pursued my doctoral research (Ph.D.) in Economics from the Madras School of Econo-mics (MSE), Chennai (India). My Ph.D. dissertation titled “Economic Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Indian Agriculture” carries out an assessment of climate change im-pacts on Indian agriculture, examines the issue of adaptation, and undertakes an assessment of the cost of adaptation to climate change. My main area of interest lies in understanding the cross--cutting issue of climate change, its linkages with various co-existing developmental issues and its various implications from a developing country standpoint. Apart from focusing on impacts and adaptation assessment, I have also examined the issue of equity in the context of climate change mitigation burden sharing. During my doctoral research, I have participated in the prestigious Young Scientists Summer Programme (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria to carry out the summer research project in the area of cli-mate change. Currently I am a Lecturer at the Madras School of Economics. Prior to my doctoral research, I have about 2.5 years of experience as economist and business analyst in the corporate and consultancy industry. As the principal investigator of an ongoing research project, my current focus is to examine the distributional effects of climate change impacts on Indian agriculture. My expertise lies in analyzing empirical data and employing innovative tools that exists in the pur-view of economic science to examine the nature and consequences of climate change and to find feasible solutions.

Nigeria

Aziude Ndubuisi Maxwell archohraoghenebrume@gmail.comNigeria Hydrological Survey, Federal Ministry of Water Resources

Aziude Ndubuisi Maxwell is a 31 Year Old Hydrologist. A Graduate of the Prestigious University of Nigeria Nsukka. He also holds a Masters Degree in Meteorology. He is the Principal Technical Officer, Water and Remote Sensing – NHSA, Abuja. Nigeria.

Ethiopia

Befikadu Esayas Amphune befikadu.esayas@aau.edu.etPhD candidate | Addis Ababa University, College of Development Studies, Center for Environment and

Development

I was a lecturer, researcher, and community service practitioner at Wolaita Sodo University between 2007 and 2013. During this period, I have produced two teaching books for undergra-duate students entitled “Environment and Development and Political Geography”, sponsored by the University Research and Publication Directorate. I edited Urban Geography book in 2013. I initiated a five year (2012-2016) comprehensive community services project that benefited 50 landless (youth, women, and households) on “Irrigation based Integrated Livelihood Activates on Household Asset Accumulation and Food Security Situation in Wolaita Zone, Humbo Larena Kebele”. I was the principal investigator of “Migration and Urban Livelihood, the Quest for Sus-tainability in Southern Ethiopia”. I have supervised and examined more than 35 undergraduate students in the areas of poverty, vulnerability to food insecurity, rural livelihoods strategies, and determinants to food security, livelihood resilience, climate change and adaption, and provided various trainings, conducted needs assessment, involved in community service projects, mode-rated and chaired University wide workshops, seminars and capacity building trainings. I have been the Project Coordinator, Development Analyst and Co-Managing Director of Teruneh Zenna Business and Management Private Consultancy Firm since 2014. I have managed and supervi-sed eight development projects funded by UNDP, CARE Canada, CARE Austria, CARE USA, USAID, European Union, and Lutheran World Federation. I have co-supervised graduate students in the area of climate change, adaptation, food security, project management and livelihood resilience. My skills include multiple software packages including qualitative analysis, Hyper Research, and Hyper Transcriber (1.6.1), Nvivo (10.0), quantitative analysis, SPSS (21.0), STATA (14.0), XLSTTA (16.0), UNISTAT (6.5), Climate Predictability Tool Model (CPTM), NPSF Modelling, R & R-studio, Statstica (10.0), data management tool, CS-Pro (6.0), modelling tools, Vensim (6.3), Threshold 21, and Viso Professional Program, Project Management Information System, Reference Management (Zotero, End Notes, and Mendeley Desktop), Image analysis software (Arc-GIS 10.2, ERDAS IMAGI-NE, Global Mapper), Adobe Photo Shops. I also have good quantitative and qualitative data analy-sis, interpretation, and reporting experiences.

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Brazil

Bruno Santos de Souza brunoss4@usp.brMaster student | Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo

(FEA/USP)

I can say that I have experience in applied economics, with focus in econometric and structural estimation and in estimation of computable general equilibrium models. Currently, my main rese-arch interests are related to the estimation of the magnitude of the impacts that the projected cli-mate changes can have on the Brazilian economy. n this sense, I intend to use econometric models that allow us to calculate the effect that changes in temperature and rainfall have on production, productivity and acreage on agricultural commodities. Once these effects are calculated, the idea is to use computable general equilibrium models to measure the effect that climate change can have on a number of economic outcomes, such as employment, production, price level, migration and welfare.

Brazil

Carlos Eduardo Menezes da Silva carlosmenezes@recife.ifpe.edu.brPhD candidate | Instituto Federal de Pernambuco (IFPE) / Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

Biologist, and environmental manager of initial training. Since 2005 I became interested in and started to research on Environmental Economics, a subject with which I did my Master’s thesis and was doing my PhD. In addition to acting as a professor at IFPE, I had the opportunity to work in some NGOs, always with the themes of environmental economics and public environmental policies.

Brazil

Carolina Gomes da Rocha carolgomesrocha@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Química, Campus Araraquara

I received my Chemistry degree (2011) and a Master’s degree in Chemistry (2014) from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. During my master’s and undergraduate research I worked in the development of electrochemical biosensors for detection of relevant substances in the envi-ronmental and health areas. Currently, I am PhD student at the same university, in the Analytical Chemistry Department, and my research is focused in the study of reactive nitrogen compounds emissions to the atmosphere from the fertilizers used in sugarcane crops and their availability and impacts to the environment employing passive/active samplers. The development of simple, sensitive and portable methods for determination of target compounds, which has been my rese-arch focus, may allow to perform measurements in places that are hard to reach, and in this way, contribute in the understanding of their dynamics and possible impacts in the environment.

Brazil

Cauê Dias Carrilho cauecarrilho@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP)

At the undergraduate level, I studied human-ecology topics, analyzing the correlation between demographic variables and the floristic and functional composition of quilombola’s home gardens in the monograph. In the master’s degree, I studied ecological economics topics. My dissertation was about the identification and economic and socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services. My PHD project is to evaluate leakage in REDD +. I have experience in field work, especially with interviews, mainly acquired in the master’s degree. In addition to the academic experiences, I have already worked in a public agency with parks and green areas management, NGOs with en-vironmental education and in a consulting company with environmental management system and environmental training. I have great experience of working in teams, including as coordinator.”

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Uruguay

Celmira Gabriela Saravia Tomasina tsara@unorte.edu.uyPhD candidate | Facultad de Agronomía & Centro Interdisciplinario de Respuesta al Cambio y Variabilidad Climática, Universidad de la República

My main line of research carried out since 1999, concerns thermal stress in animals under gra-zing conditions. In recent years, a complementary line of work has been incorporated with the previous one, in relation to the Impact of extreme events and climatic variability on the animal welfare and the human health. The information generated has been disseminated in diverse acti-vities of teaching of degree and postgraduate and in activities of extension-diffusion to the rural environment and to academic level in regional congresses and in refereed publications. Likewise, she has participated in several events as an expositor, allowing to strengthen in academic exchan-ge with researchers from other countries.

Brazil

Cíntia Alvim Lage cintia.alvim92@gmail.comOther: currently enrolling in a Masters program | Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

My name is Cíntia Alvim Lage, I am 24 years old, and I graduated in Environmental Sciences from the University of Brasília on the last semester of 2016. During my graduation I had several opportunities to enhance my knowledge in Science and Sustainable Development as well. In my exchange year, I studied in an American University, in Massachusetts, called Wheaton College. I had many classes with an environmental focus as well as urban planning. During the summer, I was hired to work as NASA research assistant, developing my own research with my Physics Professor. The research was called: “Testing the Mudball Earth Hypothesis: Are Neoproterozoic Glacial Deposits Capped with Supraglacial Dust?” and it was presented on the American Geophy-sical Union (AGU) Congress in San Francisco, 2014. In addition to that, I was also selected to be part of a researcher’s team in my University in Brazil. Along with my supervisor, I wrote 4 articles related to the environment and image processing area. We went to the Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium in João Pessoa to present my article: “Carbon Sequestration Analyses with Hyperion Hyperspectral Data resampled to WorldView 2”. I was also selected to be a researcher for the Brazilian Institutional Scientific Initiation Program – PIBIC, gaining funds for a year to develop the research: “Evaluation of the Expansion of Brazilian Urban Areas and its Social and Environmental Impacts by means of the integration of NTL and NDVI indexes”. This research was my final work during my graduation, and it gained the highest grade. I intend to continue it during my master’s program. I speak 4 languages fluently and I worked in the Department of International Relations in the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil as an internee.

Brazil

Clarissa Câmara de Freitas clarissa-camara@usp.brPhD candidate | Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Sanitary and Environmental Engineer from the State University of Paraíba (2012), Master in Ci-vil and Environmental Engineering with emphasis in Water Resources and Sanitary Engineering by the Federal University of Campina Grande (2015), working in the areas of Computational Simu-lation and Mathematical Modeling, Intelligence Artificial applied to Sanitation and Surveillance and Control of Water Quality Mathematical Modeling applied to Water Resources. Currently, I am doing my PhD research at the Program of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering - University of São Paulo (USP) - Sao Carlos Engineering School. Linked as a researcher to the Laboratories: Integra-ted Nucleus of Hydrographic Basins “NIBH” and the Water Adaptive Design & Innovation “WADI ~ Lab”. Actually, Participation as doctoral researcher in current research groups: (a) USP / NAP-MC--II, INCLINE: Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center; Water Resources and Climate Change (2016-2019), (b) CNPq + FAPESP, INCT-II National Institute of Science and Technology in Clima-te Change, Water Safety Component (2016-2020), under the guidance of Dr. Prof. Eduardo Mario Mendiondo. Recent initiatives to address the study of impacts resulting from climate change in Brazil are being proposed INCT Climate Change Program (INCT-MC-II) and FAPESP-IVA.

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Brazil

Claudio Roberto Anholetto Junior claudio@mamiraua.org.brPhD candidate | Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP) / Instituto Mamirauá

I’m a early career researcher, currently living and working between two distant places in Bra-zil, which are the São Paulo and Amazonas states. For that I need to be organized, really calm and not afraid of flying, especially over large forests. Usually I spend three or four months in each pla-ce, alternating among different lives. One as a PhD candidate in the most developed state in Brazil, other as a researcher in one of the country’s less populated areas. This has been going over the last three years. I divide my duties between the position of technician and researcher of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute (IDSM-OS), in Tefé (AM) and the doctoral course in Applied Ecology of the University of São Paulo, at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, in Piracicaba (SP). The joint development of the two activities has only yielded positive results so far, as I keep acquiring knowledge in the disciplines and applying it in the development of my work responsibi-lities and, at the same time, the experience in dealing with the Amazon ecosystem and its human populations helps to delineate the directions and goals of my thesis. I’m now responsible for the extension work about the multiple use forest management developed by traditional communities of the Mamirauá and Amanã Development Reserves, two conservation units (C.U.) in the Central Amazon. Also responsible and supervisor of three researches being developed about the (i) Forest dynamics of the two conservation units; (ii) Structuring and analysis of the forest management program database; and the (iii) Environmental impact of the forest management in the reserves. At the same time, I’ve conducting experiments with tropical and temperate forests dendrochro-nology, aiming to understand the effects of climate change over the growth dynamics of sensible species that occur in those environments. In Brazil I worked in three biomes, over large territorial distributions, being the (i) Atlantic Forest, (ii) the Caatinga Savanna and the (iii) Amazon. I’ve also being working in central Chile recently, about the fragility of its Mediterranean ecosystem to climate change, using tree ring anatomical and chemical analysis for the understanding of climate influence over Notophagus macrocarpa growth and how the last 50 years changes has affected it.

Cuba

Dagne Boudet Rouco dagne.boudet@insmet.cuPhD candidate | Instituto de Meteorología (INSMET)

For 10 years, I have participated in the development of Early Warning Systems for extreme hydrometeorological events and in the study of climate trends and behavior. I have participated in different research projects related to this theme and the impact and adaptation to climate change. The theme of my Master’s thesis was the impact of climate change on the hydrogeological section Artemisa Quivicán for the period 2021-2050. During my work as a researcher I have developed skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), statistics and database management.

Peru

Daniel Hugo Flores Caballero danielflorescaballero@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto Geofísico del PerúI worked in the identification of ecosystem services in mangroves and dry forest. Economic characterization and application of CVCA methodology in the mangrove ecosystem. Currently, I am a searching watershed in Pisco River, region in Ica of Peru; and searching of traditional know-ledge in the region of Junin, Peru (Andes zone).

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Brazil

Danielle Almeida de Carvalho danialmeidacarvalho@gmail.comMaster student | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Danielle Almeida de Carvalho has experience in planning and management in natural resour-ces associated with social research. She has Bachelor degree in Biology with honours and Coastal Management and Marine Biology specialization at the São Paulo State University (UNESP), Coastal Campus. Currently, she is involving in her master research related to climate change adaptation at regional and local level. Precisely, related to coastal cities that is facing climatic vulnerability and need to improve their adaptive capacity, taking into account stakeholders and government interests in the decision making process. She developed research about public policy in adaptation at the coastal city of Santos. It resulted in her dissertation to conclude the Marine Biology spe-cialization. Danielle also worked in research related to public use in protected areas in São Paulo North Coast with scholarship from São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP. This work resulted in the final bachelor’s dissertation and in the coastal management specialization. Additionally, she studied in the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) during her bachelor’s studies for the period of six months with the assistance of Santander Group. Danielle has skills in social research methodology; such as social communication; questionnaires development; interviewing and par-ticipation in democratic process.

Brazil

Débora Souza Alvim deborasalvim@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – Centro de Previsão de Tempo e

Estudos Climáticos (INPE – CPTEC)

Researcher at INPE National Institute for Space Research, working on the following topics: air pollution, analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere, working with OZIPR model to determine the main prec+A1:H126ursors VOC ozone in the atmosphere. Working with Earth System Models (CAM5-MAM3/CAM-CHEM and ECHAM-HAM) for future engagement of the-se models of aerosols in BESM (Brazilian Earth System Model) model. Worked for 10 years in the research project, study of the major VOCs ozone precursors in the metropolitan area of São Paulo.

Analysis of volatile organic compounds with the techniques of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography. Extensive knowledge of these techniques, theoretical and practical. Use the mo-del ozone isopleth package for research to determine the main precursors of ozone in the me-tropolitan region of São Paulo. Experience in validation of tracers gas and aerosol properties for comparison of model with terrestrial and satellite measurements.

Brazil

Decker Guzmán Zabalaga decker.guzman@iag.usp.brMaster student | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)

I have a natural disposition for working in a team and my little experience allowed me to gain autonomy, especially in experimental settings for escenarios modelling and software learning. In addition, for all my research experiences, I feel that my educational background also makes me an ideal candidate for this course. My undergraduate degree involves coursework in environmental Physics, Meteorology, Modelling, and Climate Change, providing me with a comprehensive back-ground in the interdisciplinary earth sciences

Brazil

Denis Dorighello Tomás denisdtomas@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas da Universidade Estadual Paulista

(UNESP)

University lecture in climatology and applied meteorology for the last 14 years; additionally, I have worked as a full-time environment specialist for the São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPSP) for 11 years as a consultant in climate change issues.

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Venezuela

Desiree Eglee Villalta villaltadesiree@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidad Simón Bolívar

I worked during my master thesis in modelling the incidence of malaria in a state of Venezue-la, using spatio-temporal Bayesian techniques. I am currenty working in my doctorate thesis modelling the hydro-meteorological risk with a zero inflate model, both with a classical and a Bayesian approach. This risk model studies the mixture of both vulnability and hazard. One of my publications was a bulletin for the Academy of Physics, Mathematics and Nature Science of Venezuela, called “”Overview of ground-based rainfall measurement network data quality for Ve-nezuela””, in which a very wide description of the data of rainfall for my country can be found. I am currently leading a research team working with the Anticancer Venezuelan Society, and we are es-timating the rates for incidence and mortality for Cancer in Venezuela. This is a work relationship on going for the last three years. My mathematical skills are focused in statistical modelling, both with classical and Bayesian techniques. Also as a leader within my research group, I have found myself in the position to adapt and apply not only my mathematical and statistical knowledge, but my ethics and hard work.

Brazil

Diego Alejandro Guzmán Arias daga2040@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos da Universidade de São Paulo (EESC/USP)

I have a bachelor`s in civil engineering (2005) in a UIS – Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga - Colombia and master in civil engineering (2010) in a UNIANDES – Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá – Colombia. Assistant Professor in International Studies Commission at the Pon-tificia Bolivariana Univeristy Bucaramanga - Colombia. Research carried out in the water resour-ces and sewage management sector, as well as professional experience in the specialized enginee-ring department of the Company of Aqueduct and Sewerage of Bogotá.I am currently pursuing my Doctorate in a Program in Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering at the University of São Paulo (USP) - Sao Carlos Engineering School. Linked as a researcher to the Laboratories: Integrated Nucleus of Hydrographic Basins “NIBH” and the Water Adaptive Design & Innovation “WADI ~ Lab”. Actually, Participation as doctoral researcher in current research groups: (a) USP / NAP-MC-II, INCLINE: Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center; Water Resources and Climate Change (2016-2019), (b) CNPq + FAPESP, INCT-II National Institute of Science and Technology in Climate Change, Water Safety Component (2016-2020), under the guidance of Dr. Prof. Eduardo Mario Mendiondo. I pro-move a proactive exchange of knowledge from many disciplines related to water-sectors, and I can able to share my findings and motivation among School’s participants, lecturers and organizers.

Brazil

Doris Jimena Roncancio Benitez djimenar@usp.brPhD candidate | Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo (FSP/USP)

Environmental engineer with experience in basic sanitation research. Master of Science by the University of Sao Paulo, interested in health risk of climate variations and risk management and reduction.

Uruguay

Eduardo Enrique Llanos García ellanos@fagro.edu.uyPhD candidate | Universidad de la República (UDELAR)

I am in the academic area conducting research related to the sustainability of systems of lives-tock production, being an area of priority and of great development for Uruguay, motivated by the ability to contribute to improve production quality competitive in harmony with the environment. Since the beginning of my career as a researcher I have been working with the use of fossil energy as one of the main inputs used for agricultural production, however I wanted to advance the deve-lopment of other important environmental indicators when assessing the impacts environmental on the environment. That is why I started a PhD with a holistic view of environmental systems, integrating various perspectives from environmental issues, and I intend to estimate the magni-tude and variability of GHG emissions and other environmental impacts in cattle systems with emphasis in southern cone.

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Brazil

Ewerton Bruno Brito de Araújo ewertonbrunobrito@gmail.comMaster student | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

I am graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2016) and a degree in Science & Technology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2015). I have experience in the area of Geosciences, working mainly in the following sub-jects: sga, normatizations, environmental management and civil construction. I consider myself committed and with good performance with teamwork; Good communication with employees in general; With continuous development; And Personal effectiveness;

Argentina

Ezequiel Martín Arrieta earrieta@imbiv.unc.edu.arPhD candidate | Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

I am a PhD student (fellowship at CONICET) who investigates on mitigation and adaptation to climate change through changes in human diets. My background degree is in medicine. However, my commitment to environmental causes and the urgency of climatic changes took me to shift from a PhD on reproductive physiology and introduce myself into the field of food and climate. My training as a medical doctor hepls me in the connection between diet changes to mitigate and adapt to climatic changes and improving public health at the same time. My Thesis project is al-ready accepted in the PhD program of Ecology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. I have experience in data mining for energy and greenhouse gases (GHG), Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of food production and consumption, and development of food plans. At present, I am writing two research publications on: (1) GHG emissions of current and altermative diets in Argentina; and (2) energy and GHGs life cycle study of the two major crops in Argentina, maize and soybeans. This last one is intended to be the basis for further studies on GHG emissions in the production of poultry, pork and beef, which I will further use in studies to assess the real GHG emissions of current diet (with local global warming potencial of food products) and the mitigation potential of diet changes.

Brazil

Fabiana Rita do Couto Santos couto.santos@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)

Graduated in Biological Sciences (2004) and M.Sc. in Ecology Conservation and Management of Wildlife by Federal University of Minas Gerais (2007) as well as a PhD in Climate and Environment (2013) by the National Institute of Amazonian Research, Dr. Couto-Santos is currently a postdoc-toral researcher at Federal University of Viçosa. Expert in environmental sciences she is enrolled in a project that Proposes GHG emission reion targets based on Municipal human development index.

Brazil

Fabiani Denise Bender fabianidenise@gmail.comPhD candidate | Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz da Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/

USP)

With master degree in science, subject meteorology, I am enrolled in a doctoral study that aims to investigate how climate change will impact maize throughout Brazil vis á vis adaptive manage-ment to mitigate yield losses. Two maize crop models have been employed, DSSAT/CERES-Maize and MONICA to investigate adaptive management (as sowing date, irrigation, fertilization and cul-tivar with longer cycle) to mitigate maize yield losses under climate change impacts. Future cli-mate change scenarios have been generated for 7 general circulation models on intermediate and high representative concentration pathway (RCP45 and RCP85), IPCC-AR5, for near (2010-39), mid (2040-69) and end-of-century (2070-99) period.

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South Africa

Farirai Rusere farirairusere@gmail.comPhD candidate | Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), University of Cape Town (UCT)

I am currently a PhD student under the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG), looking at tailoring climate change adaptation options in the smallholder farming sector. I’ m a holder of an MSc in Agricultural meteorology and a BSc Hons Agriculture majoring in Crop Science from the University of Zimbabwe. I worked as an agricultural and climate science researcher at Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. My research interests are in irrigation, agronomy, water re-sources management and climate change and agriculture in smallholder farmers.

Guatemala

Fátima Antonethe Castaneda Mena fatimacastaneda@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Desarrollo Sostenible, Universidad Galileo

I call the attention the course, because it does not discriminate if you are a scientist of Climate Change, the call is open to a multidiscisplinary group. It is in this sense that I have experience, pu-blic policies, international relations, renewable energy and climate change; because in such topics for a real change exists, the disciplines must be united. I am a young scientist with experience in Latin America, Europe and Asia. I like to innovate, to share with different experts from all over the world.

Brazil

Fernando Gonçalves Morais fernusp@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IF/USP)Supporting field work in experiments on atmospheric physics, chemistry measurements, air pollution and global changes at institute of physics of University of Sao Paulo. Analysis of experi-mental data using spreadsheets, averaging calculations, standard deviations, graphics analysis, data formatting and linear regressions. Preventive and corrective maintenance of electronic and mechanical equipment used for atmospheric physics measurements in the field (Amazon forest). Maintenance techniques, care in handling fragile equipment, security, assembly and disassembly of equipment, cargo handling and environmental influences analysis (temperature, humidity, ga-ses, liquids and solids) in equipment. Maintenance and operation of NASA Aeronet network under the responsibility of USP, total of 7 photometers CIMEL. Maintenance, calibration and operation of the following instruments: TSI – SMPS, CPCs and Nephelometer; Ecotech – Nephelometers Aurora, M9003 and Hi-Vol; Thermo – MAAP, TEOM, PARTISOL, gases monitors O3, NOx, SO2; Picarro – CO, CO2, CH4 and NH3 Monitors; Droplet Measurements – CCN; Magee Sci – Aetalometers AE33, AE42; Campbell dataloggers; Meteorologic Stations and stack filters.

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Argentina

Florencia Rositano rositano@agro.uba.arPostdoctoral Researcher | Faculdade de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Since I was in high school, I have decided that my college education would be linked to nature. So, Biology and Agronomy were the options and I decided on the last one because human decisions are more related to this subject. Ecology has always been my favourite topic and I have focused my research (past, current and future) on it. During my PhD thesis, I worked on the development of an assessment framework in order to study ecosystem services and changes in their provision as a consequence of environmental variability and agricultural practices in Pampean agroecosyste-ms. To meet this objective, a combination of soft and hard methodologies was used for developing qualitative and quantitative models, such as Delphi method, Bayesian networks and multivariate analysis. These methodologies let me combine written knowledge, expert knowledge and real pro-ductive and environmental databases. A conceptual model was developed representing those envi-ronmental and productive variables that determine the provision of eight ecosystem services (i.e. soil C balance, soil N balance, soil structure maintenance, soil water balance, N2O emission control, biotic adversities control, groundwater contamination control, species richness maintenance) in the Pampa region. This conceptual model was parameterized through Bayesian networks, a probabilis-tic methodology that can manage uncertainty, an inherent property to agroecosystems functioning. Finally, the model was quantified with real environmental and productive databases from three agricultural areas located in the Pampa region. Ecosystem services provision level was obtained for three sites with different agro-ecologial characteristics. This analytical approach is an advance to ecosystem services provision because it is possible 1) to assess agroecosystems sustainability from an ecological dimension, and 2) to assist stakeholders to carry out sustainable land use strategies. At the same time, I have carried out another series of research related to agroecosystems sustainability from social and economic points of view, co-authored with PhD and posdoctoral students from Fa-cultad de Agronomía (Universidad de Buenos Aires). We have set up a working group related to agro-ecosystems sustainability and we have presented our results in different conferences (Zajdband and Rositano 2010; Gelabert et al. 2011; Gelabert et al. 2012) and journals (Gelabert et al. 2014). Recently, I have begun working on ecosystem services provided by urban and peri-urban systems of Buenos Aires province (Civeira et al. 2015). Moreover, I have been linked to the Working Group on Human Rights which join researchers of different areas at Facultad de Agronomía (Universidad de Buenos Aires). I also teach Human Rights to different careers at this faculty. We have recently published a book (https://www.agro.uba.ar/catalog/derechos-humanos-ambiente-y-desarrollo-los-objetivos--del-milenio) that is aimed at students, teachers and researchers. Aditionally, I have tried to link my research to this activity in order to enrich both activities.

Brazil

Gabriel Martins Palma Perez gabrielmpp2@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)As an undergraduate student I have worked with professor Jorge Melendez in the field of stellar astrophysics (CNPq grant) and with professor Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias in the field of clima-tology (FAPESP grant). Both of these works were presented on symposiums and recently publi-shed on high-impact international journals. As a graduate student I have been attaining excellent academic performance on the disciplines. Currently my dissertation is on the field of quantitative precipitation forecast, aiming to predict the occurrence of extreme precipitation events in the city of São Paulo. I have advanced skills in machine learning, statistical models and data mining techniques. Also, I have a solid understanding of atmospheric dynamics and numerical modeling. My most recent paper is in the field of climatology and it traces a relationship between local cir-culations in São Paulo and low-frequency atmospheric modes such as Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

Brazil

Gabriela Chiquito Gesualdo chiquito.gabriela@gmail.comMaster student | Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)I have a diverse experience in research, first I started studying groundwater and its spatial and temporal variation, then I finished my degree with a work on the vulnerability of springs, and now I am studying the influence of climate change on the water availability. I carried out practi-cal activities, such as: -Soil granulometric analysis; -Flow measurement in small and large rivers, as in the Miranda River, in the Pantanal; -Measurement and monitoring of groundwater; -Spring vulnerability study; I also have experience in some software like: ArcGis, Qgis, Autocad. I recently learned how to use Matlab.

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Brazil

Gabrielle Rabelo Quadra gaby_quadra@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Gabrielle is graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora – UFJF (2010-2014). She did her master’s degree in Applied Ecology at the Management and Conservation of Natural Resources at the same university, acting at Aquatic Ecology Laboratory (LEA). Her dis-sertation was with heavy metal contamination in Brazilian reservoirs. Currently, she is doing her Ph.D. project on drugs pollution, investigating how anthropogenic disturbances can affect aquatic ecosystems, especially during environmental changes.

Brazil

Gustavo Adolfo Agudelo Cantero gustavo.a.agudelo@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo (IB/USP)

I am a biologist (Universidad del Valle, Colombia), with a Master degree in General Physiology (University of Sao Paulo). I am currently enrolled in the PhD Program of General Physiology of the Institute of Biosciences, University of Sao Paulo. My major research interest is to understand the impacts of climate and environmental change on fauna, from an evolutionary perspective. I have previous experience in trophic ecology and reproductive biology of poison frogs, and during my Master I gained additional expertise in ecophysiology and evolutionary physiology. Specifically, I developed habilities in some ecophysiological techniques (thermal tolerance tests, high-speed video recording for locomotor performance) and statistical data analysis and programming with R. My current research is focused on the relationship between temperature variability/predicta-bility and upper thermal tolerance in amphibian anurans, using the larval stage as a model. This information will provide empirical data for mechanistic models of climate change vulnerability.

Turkey

Hakki Baltaci baltacihakki@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Turkish State Meteorological Service

I have been working as weather forecaster in the metropolitan city of Istanbul (Turkey) almost 17 years. In addition to my professional experience, i finished my master and pHd programmes about the precipitation-landslide relationships and synoptic circulation types and their influence on precipitation for the particular regions of the county, respectively. Nowadays, i am currently interesting the influence of teleconnection patterns on climate extremes over Turkey, and clima-tology, precipitation types and atmospheric conditions of extreme precipitation events in western Turkey.

Egypt

Haytham Mohamed Salem Mohamed haytham.salem@alumnos.upm.esPostdoctoral Researcher | Desert Research Center (DRC)I have got an international PhD degree in agriculture sciences in the field of Agricultural En-gineering (Soil and Water Conservation) from Technical University of Madrid, Spain, with grade excellent with honor degree in 2014. The PhD project was in the field of conservation tillage and its effect on soil physical properties, in-situ rainwater harvesting and erosion control in arid and semi-arid regions. Currently I have been worked as a researcher at soil and water conservation department, Desert Research Center, Egypt. I am involved as a junior researcher in training and research of Soil and Water Conservation and Land Management in arid and semi-arid regions.

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Brazil

Heloisa Ramos Pereira heloisaramos92@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto Agronômico (IAC/APTA/SAA-SP)

I have always been interested in climate change studies. Since the early years of my undergra-duate school in Atmospheric Sciences I started to get involved with this research topic. I developed my final undergraduation work on “Climate change projections of precipitation and temperatu-re regimes in the Southeast region of Brazil using the new IPCC AR5 climate models”, available at http://saturno.unifei.edu.br/bim/20150017.pdf, under the supervision of Dr. Roger Rodrigues Torres. To continue my academic trajectory, I am currently enrolled in the master degree program of the Agronomic Institute (IAC), under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel Constantino Blain. My re-search addresses the impact of climate change on the frequency and intensity of drought events in the State of São Paulo and, the main goal of my research is to provide a deeper understanding of the impacts of different greenhouse gases emission scenarios over future patterns of drought events, aiding decision-making and actions seeking to mitigate the adverse effects of such envi-ronmental hazard. My main skills are: I am very interested and focused on continuing learning about climate change, I am aware of some tools that the scientific community uses to try a better understanding about climate change, such as the global circulation models and the social, climatic and economic considerations made to predict the future emission scenarios.

Nigeria

Ike E Chukwudi npfsnigeria@gmail.comNigeria Hydrological Survey, Federal Ministry of Water Resources

Ike Chukwudi is a 40 Year Old Geologist majoring in Hydro Geology. He is a Snr. Research Fellow - Water and Remote Sensing, Department of Marine Geology, Nigerian Institute for Marine Resear-ch and Oceanography and doubles as the HOD Nigerian Hydrological Survey at the National Centre for Remote Sensing (NCRS), Nigeria.

Mozambique

Isabel Marques da Silva isilva@fcn-unilurio.comOther: Researcher | Faculdade de Ciencias Naturais, Universidade Lúrio (FCN, UniLúrio)

Isabel Marques da Silva was born in Portugal in 1971 and studied aquatic sciences at OPorto University. In 1995-1996 did a training in the Acquario di Genova Italy. From 1997 to 2005 worked at the Oceanário de Lisboa aquarium where she worked with marine mammals, birds, sharks and fish, and plant collections. She did her Masters in ethology in 2003. In 2006 moved to Mozambique where she started as voluntary for the Zoological Society of London, at Vamizi Island, Palma, Cabo Delgado. After, she worked in the Vamizi lodge as officer to communities and conservation. She started one of the first CCP (Community Fishing Council) and one of the first Community Marine Sanctuary in Vamizi Island with the community. Since 2009 she is lecturing in Lúrio University, Pemba, Cabo Delgado, where she teaches Community development, diving&swimming, Inverte-brate zoology, Marine Ecology and Conservation Biology. She returns to Vamizi island as scientific adviser for the WWF project. Her biggest passion is diving. She started in 1992 in the cool wa-ters of Portugal, where she did a PADI instructor course in 2005. She has been doing underwater surveys, and she has been training young marine biologist in diving, but also other people from fisheries department and MICOA. In Vamizi Island she’s known as Kerera, the Snapper-the fish that never stops

Cuba

Ismabel María Domínguez Hurtado ismabel.dominguez@vcl.insmet.cuPhD candidate | Meteorological Center of Villa Clara, Institute of Meteorology

I am technical deputy director of the Provincial Meteorological Center of Villa Clara. I also work as a professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Central University Marta Abreu de Las Villas. I am a Member of the Scientific Council of the CITMA system in Villa Clara and the Te-chnical Advisory Council of the Provincial Meteorological Center of Villa Clara. I am currently a Correspondent for the Presidency / Vice Presidency and a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM). I have been a Member, consultant and opponent of master’s thesis courts. On the other hand, I represent the meteorological service of the province before the Provincial Assembly of People’s Power in the Provincial Council of Wa-tersheds and in the Commission of Reforestation.

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USA

Jacob Sullivan Diamond jacdia@vt.eduPhD candidate | Virginia Tech

I have been engaged in natural resources research for the past 10 years, and am a lifelong stu-dent of the natural world. I have research experience in the Everglades, Florida karst springs, blackwater rivers, cypress domes, deserts of the western U.S, the Great Salt Lake, implementation of environmental policy, and most recently in northern U.S. forested wetlands. I use a systems--perspective to combine direct ecosystem measurements with rigorous computational analysis to answer interesting and important questions about environmental systems.

India

Javed Akhter akhterexpressju@gmail.comPhD candidate | Jadavpur University

At present I’m doing my PhD research work on regional climate change at Jadavpur Universi-ty. Presently I’m working on various statistical downscaling and associated predictor selection techniques for reliable projection of future climate at regional scale using Global Climate Models (GCMs) output. In recent past, I have been involved in evaluation of climate models through diffe-rent statistical metrics and determination of uncertainties associated with the model projections. I have also analyzed different types of meteorological dataset like Station data, Gridded data etc. I have worked on different computational platforms and performed various analyses using advan-ced software like R, CDO, Surfer, ArcGIS, SWAT etc.

Colombia

Jenny Sofía Gómez Guerrero jennygomez@udec.clPhD candidate | Universidad de Concepción (UdeC)

I’m a young scientists interested in the study of extreme events like drought and climate chan-ge adaptation and mitigation. I’m Systems Engineer, with some past experience as teacher but I studied a posgraduate course in geoinformatics and environmental sciences then I learn to mange GIS tools and to use them in the analisys of environmental issues. Now I’am interested in to study drought and how climate change and events like ENSO is influencing local phenomena, it’s variabi-lity and aspects relative of how to choose appropriate adaptation strategies

Brazil

João Francisco Ferreira Sobreiro joaosobreiro@live.comMaster student | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

I am enrolled as a Masters student in the Geography Graduate Program of the Institute for Ge-osciences and Mathematical Sciences of São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil. I am interested in how processes and mechanisms between climate, hydrology and topography control the distribution of different vegetation types across a tropical mountainous environment (Espi-nhaço Moutain Range, Brazil), and how these vegetation types could response under different future climate change scenarios. I have strong skills in remotely sensed climatic data processing and analysis. I am currently impoving my computational skills, working with Python and R.

Chile

Jonathan Eligio Barichivich Henriquez campsidium@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh)

Dr. Jonathan Barichivich is a post-doctoral researcher on ecosystem modelling at the Labora-toire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, Paris) and the Universidad Austral de Chile. The main focus of his research is on the interactions between climate, society and terres-trial ecosystems through the water and carbon cycles. His regions of interest are the circumpolar boreal region and South America.

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Brazil

José Reinaldo Paranaíba Vilela Alves Teixeira zehvilela@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

I’m Bachelor in Biological Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF (2015). Ph.D. stu-dent in the Postgraduate Program in Ecology at UFJF, working in the area of Aquatic Ecology, with emphasis on the production and emission of greenhouse gases by hydroeletric and water suppply reservoirs. I’m also carries out activities in an ecological monitoring program for aquatic systems

Brazil

José Vitor Pereira Miguel josevitorpm@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP)

Having an engineering degree combined with a masters of science enabled myself to build a different skill set, which provided me with a certain ease towards analytical tasks and resear-ching. Throughout my masters program, I had to deal with wind data on a daily basis, in order to interpret and understand the relations between all that information and the wind industry itself within the Brazilian energy sector. In a sense, this systemic view was all along fostered by being active outside the boundaries of my research’s realm. By that, I mean taking extra curricu-lar courses (e.g. leadership program, languages), reading material on other subjects and picking unusual topics on classes’ final papers - with the sole purpose of learning something different and enlarging my knowledge spectrum. Now, as a doctoral candidate, I persist researching climate data, tracking long term atmospheric dynamics and linking that information to Brazil’s power generation through wind and water resources.

Brazil

Juan Carlos Farias Pardo pardojcf@yahoo.com.brMaster student | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

I am a marine biologist and coastal manager interested on behavioral ecology of marine and estuarine organisms. I am currently working with the effects of coastal ocean warming and acidi-fication on early life history-stages. I have a vast experience on field and lab experiments focusing on estuarine ecosystems and species.

Bolivia

Juan Marcos Calle Fernandez juanmarcoscalle@chacaltaya.edu.boPhD candidate | Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics, Universidad Mayor de San Andres (LFA, UMSA)

I am a young researcher in applied physics. I participated in several projects related to atmos-pheric sciences at the Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics (LFA), performing different tasks as a research assistant, later as a young researcher and lately as a graduate student. As an undergra-duate student, I participated in a project related to the monitoring of CO2. Later I became involved in the study of aerosols and greenhouses gases, deepening my knowledge about climate change and venturing into tools for analysis including different programming languages such as IDL, R and GIS software. Before finishing my undergraduate studies, I did some research of droughts and floods in La Plata Basin, working at the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (SENA-MHI-Bolivia) for the Bolivian Government. In that opportunity I had to deal with relatively new topics for me using scientific articles and developing my own tools for analysis. Fortunately I was able to finish this work successfully. After finishing my undergraduate studies in physics, I began my Ph. D. research, as part of the DECADE (Data on climate and Extreme weather for the Central AnDEs) project. The aim of my work is to better understand the behavior of extreme events in Boli-via. During this time, I was able to obtain a deep understanding of the processes used by SENAMHI to get surface data from the raw observations to the transcription of them. In addition, as part of my work, I was involved in the QC/QA process which will let me obtain data with enough quality for studying extreme events in the Central Andes.

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USA

Katharyn Helen Duffy kdw223@nau.eduPhD candidate | Northern Arizona University (NAU)

I am a 33 year old female, avid traveler and adventurer, and just completed 9 months of rese-arch in New Zealand. While in New Zealand I worked with a research team at the University of Waikato to test a novel theory regarding the temperature dependence of enzyme catalyzed rates, specifically how photosynthesis and respiration are disparately affected by temperature, and how we can use their new theory to predict when photosynthesis will significantly decline. I have cho-sen global carbon cycling as my research focus because I see global environmental change as the imminent challenge for my generation. As governor Insee of Washington State noted ‘We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last one that can do something about it’. For this reason I focus my research and efforts on understanding our current global car-bon cycle, and improving our understanding of its sensitivity to climate. My dissertation research focuses on the sensitivity of the land-sink of carbon to variation in light, water and temperature. I specifically focus on extreme weather events and disturbance regimes (e.g. drought, heat-waves) which impact biospheric sequestration and storage of carbon. The goal of this work is to attribute anomalies in the land-sink to specific enviroclimatic drivers (e.g. temperature) so that we can bet-ter understand and predict future carbon cycling, and improve terrestrial biosphere models used to investigate global environmental change. I primarily use FLUXNET data, which is a network of eddy covariance towers that cover every major plant functional type, biome, and vegetated con-tinent. These towers concurrently measure land-atmosphere carbon exchange along with a host of micrometeorological variables including air temperature, incoming solar radiation and water exchange. I use this data to statistically attribute observational changes in photosynthesis, respi-ration, and net ecosystem exchange to discrete environmental drivers. I also work with reanaly-sis and CMIP5 climate datasets to put my results into a temporal and global context. My Master’s degree work focused on the generation of forest carbon offsets in the Southwestern U.S.. With my colleagues I drafted and submitted a new type of Improved Forest Management methodology whi-ch quantifies the carbon benefit of fuels treatments to decrease fire severity and maintain forest cover. This new type of project is a hybrid of REDD+ and Improved Forest Management aimed at federal, state and tribal lands. I have extensive Matlab and R statistical computing skills, experien-ce with big data analytics, and an understanding of climate variability on yearly to decadal scales.

Bangladesh

Khalid Md Bahauddin khalid.bahauddin@gmail.comPhD candidate | Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies

Khalid Md. Bahauddin is an environment researcher and professional by academic knowledge, relevant training and professional experience, he has been involved in environmental research since 2010. His research expertise have been on climate change, environmental health, disaster risk management and social-environmental issues. He has also developed expertise in multidis-ciplinary research on sustainable development, natural resources management, environmental governance and management. He has significant number of scholarly publications in form of books (5), research papers (32) and media articles (29). In addition, he has more than six years of profes-sional research experience in social-environmental ?eld. Noted that he has been and recognized for outstanding contributions to environmental researches from different International bodies such as MIT, The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), International Social Science Council, ICIMOD, APN, UNESCO and SAYCAN etc.

Brazil

Larissa de Souza Noel Simas larissa.noel@usp.brPhD candidate | Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz da Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/

USP)

In March 2014, I have started a PhD in bioenergy at Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture. My thesis topic is the modeling and optimization of sucrose extraction process in industrial sugar-cane diffusers. In 2015, however, I had the opportunity to work one year as a researcher in the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) in partnership with Lappeenranta University of Tech-nology (LUT). During my PhD exchange program, I developed projects related to 100% renewable energy systems for South and Central America and also the integration of power-to-gas technolo-gy to Brazilian sugarcane biorefineries. Throughout my professional, academic and personal life, I had the opportunity to develop a pro-active mindset, excellent communication and co-operation skills, a structured working method with fast learning. I am also really motivated by an intercul-tural teamwork.

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Brazil

Leonardo de Sousa Miranda leonardo.miranda@pq.itv.orgPostdoctoral Researcher | Instuto Tecnológico Vale (ITV)

Currently a post-doctoral researcher at Instituto Tecnológico Vale Desenvolvimento Sustentá-vel. I have general interests in evolution, ecology, natural history and conservation, with an em-phasis on ornithology. My current research area is modeling of geographic distribution and biodi-versity data; as well as population genetics; phylogeography and molecular systematics. Worked as an environmental analyst at Instituto Estadual de Florestas - Amapá; and I was part of several technical teams in fauna inventories, diagnostics and monitoring for projects in the Amazon.

USA

Lidia Huaman Chuquihuaccha lidiana.huaman@gmail.comPhD candidate | Texas A&M University

I have B.S in Meteorology in the La Molina National Agrarian University, Lima, Peru. My under-graduate thesis entitled ‘Seasonal and interannual of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) in the eastern Pacific using radar data’, and supervised by Dr. Ken Takahashi, was approved with the highest mark. In the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP), I was focused on the observational study of the eastern Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), and I published an article in Geo-physical Research Letters with the main results of my work, I believe this article is of substantial interest to both the observational and also the climate modeling communities, since the eastern Pacific is a region where the double ITCZ, whose exaggeration is one of the key outstanding biases in climate models, can actually be seen in nature. I have just started a Ph.D. Program in Atmos-pheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, and I am working with Dr. Courtney Schumacher. We are assessing the vertical structure of the ITCZ in the east Pacific using a daily index from IR images, reanalyses, and TRMM and Cloudsat data.

Canada

Lidong Zou lidong@ualberta.caPhD candidate | Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta

Recent two years, my research focuses on drought monitoring based on remote sensing. I am familiar with some professional software, such as ENVI/IDL, ArcGIS, and calculation software like R and Matlab. Also, I learned math well, and I won the second in national Mathematic Contest in Modeling in China in 2009.

Brazil

Luara Tourinho de Oliveira Pereira loptourinho@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

For me it is very easy to get interested, learn and explore my research issues, since I work with what always made me get fascinated, Biology. I am determinated, hard work, disciplined and I have ability to collaboration, group working, and assisting students and colleagues in their own studies and research when I can be helpful. In my undergraduate degree, I studied animal behavior, landsca-pe ecology and biogeography. I got involved in a vary of extra curricular activities, like participating in many university committees of the Biology Institute. I also worked in the Institute for the Envi-ronment and Water Resources, a government institution. After graduating, I spent a time in the USA to improve my English and to be a training at the Steve Beissinger Laboratory (UC-Berkeley, USA), where I had my first contact with the climate change research and had experiences with orthorec-tification of aerial photographs, using the softwares ERDAS IMAGINE LPS, ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 and ENVI 5. I identified myself with this theme, and I looked for an university in Brazil where I could find a great team that could support me to combine climate change aspects to landscape ecology. In my master degree, my advisors and me developed a new method to combine these two main environ-mental stressors of the biodiversity and measured the influence of both aspects in the priorization of areas to conservation. During my master degree, I read a large literature, related to a range of climate change and landscape ecology issues and learned niche modelling methods using R . I have an ability to learn quickly new concepts and methods, and to promptly apply them to my research. I also presented my research in scientific meetings, published a paper related to my undergraduate studies and I have two papers related to my master studies that are almost finished. To my Ph.D., I will work with Barry Sinervo (UC-Santa Cruz, USA), my coadvisor, who is a pioneer in the ecophysio-logical niche modelling methods, that I will use to measure the extinction risk of birds.

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Brazil

Lucas Roecker Lazarin lucas.lazarin@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

PhD Student at UFRGS, acting with Interdisciplinary Research, focused on transformation of society through marketing.

Brazil

Lucas Rosse Caldas lrc.ambiental@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), COPPE

I am highly motivated person with strong sense of responsibility. I am easy adaptable to any environment as I already studied and participated in researches at different universities: Pontifi-cal Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GO), Federal University of Goiás (UFG), University of Brasília (UnB) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Research Project in Brazilian Panel on Climate Change and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Low Carbon Disruptive Tech-nologies – Roadmap of Cement Sector. PhD Student in Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Civil Engineering Program Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Supervisor: DSc. Romildo Dias Toledo Filho. Research Project in Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Brazil Recursos Hídricos e Saneamento Am-biental na Região Metropolitana de Goiânia – RMG. Research Project in Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Brazil Eficiência Energética em Edifícios Públicos Municipais. Master’s Student in University of Brasília, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Brasília, Brazil. Skills: SimaPro (life cycle assessment software); DesignerBuilder (thermal–energy simulation software for buildings); Climate Change World Weather File Generator (thermal–energy simulation tool)

Brazil

Luciana Cristina de Sousa Vieira lucianavieira_f15@yahoo.com.brPhD candidate | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

My experience is focused on the study of forest biomass and analyze the events that interfere with their dynamic growth and mortality, trying to understand the processes and factors that contribute to their resilience. My current research in PHD concentrates on the study of the repre-sentation of forest dynamics using the ED2.2 (Ecosystem Demography Model) model for Amazo-nia simulating droughts events in the Tapajos forest. My goal as a researcher is to know how the forest can be resistant to drought events and which may limit forest resilience after this event.

Colombia

Luis Alejandro Builes Jaramillo labuiles@unal.edu.coPhD candidate | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede MedellínAs part of my experience I have worked in the fields of environmental planning and in the sup-port of policy assesment, more specifficaly for water and air management. Six years ago I started my career as a teacher/researcher and during the last four years I have focused my research on the complex interdependencies between two highly important sub-systems of the planetary climate system, namely the Amazon River basin and the Tropical North Atlantic Ocean (TNA). I am ap-plying novel ideas of nonlinear dynamical systems to understand and to disentangle the existence of two-way coupling between land-surface hydrological processes in Amazonia with TNA´s sea surface temperatures at annual and interannual timescales.

Mexico

Luis Eduardo Herrera Aztegui herreraztegui@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Study of dynamical processes that result in climate over the Mesoamerican and Caribbean re-gion. I’m focused on climatic features in Mesoamerican region like Mid-summer drought, mean flow - transients interaction. Risk management.

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Côte d’Ivoire

Malan Ketcha Armand Kablan kablan.malan@yahoo.frPhD candidate | Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

My research interests include climate change and human security, vulnerability assessment, urban land use/cover change, climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk manage-ment and reduction, water, sanitation and environmental pollution as well as sustainable deve-lopment. In July 2013, I participated (as part of the Master program) in a pratical internship at the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO, Ghana) on disaster risk reduction and emergency response. In March and October 2015, I participated in the “”National training on cri-sis management and pratical test for the implementation of the marine and inland water pollu-tion plan (Plan POLLUMAR). During my university trainings, all my researches were related to disaster risk management and human security. Therefore, I worked during my Master’s degree on vulnerability of urban dwellers to climate change-induced heat. For my Ph.D. degree, I worked on the vulnerability and adaptation of urban residents to the effects of climate variability/change. This study was mostly focused on urban flood risk management and negative effects of increased temperature. Working on the importance of urban green and open spaces as tools for disaster risk reduction, I have been selected in January 2017 to be part of the young scientists of the Integrated Research for Disaster Risk (IRDR). I also belong to Ivorian Network of Professional in Heath, Safe-ty, and Environment (RIHSE) in which I am the 2nd Vice-President.

Argentina

María Agostina Bracalenti agostinabracalenti@gmail.comPhD candidate | Center of Studies on Variability and Climate Change (CEVARCAM) of Faculty of

Engineering and Hydric Sciences, Litoral National University

I am a responsible person and committed to the environment. That is why I study Environmen-tal Engineering. While studying my career, I dedicate myself to investigate alternative biological treatments study of liquid effluents from cider production with the production of added value by--products. After graduating I decided to do a doctorate related to climate change. I am currently investigating the hydroclimatic and environmental impact of the expansion of crops in Argentina.

Brazil

Maria Cristina Oliveira Souza mcris.ssouza@gmail.comPhD candidate | Departamento de Política Científica e Tecnológica, Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Maria Cristina Oliveira Souza, graduated in Management Studies and Business Administration from State University of Campinas. Master of Science and Technology Policy from State University of Campinas and currently Ph.D. in the same program. In her researches she is interested in cover the spectrum of scientific and technological issues related to Climate Change and her theme of in-vestigation is still broadly defined and encompasses transitions for sustainability with a proposal to study transformations in energy use from sectoral and intersectoral viewpoints. Her research has as Energy Transitions theme for a better use of renewable energies as well as studies on the dynamics of the agreements of the countries aiming at the mitigation of climate change and also the relations between climate change and energy. She has extensive experience in using multiple sources of information and databases in socioeconomic indicators, such as DESA / United Nations and WorldBank Database, Greenhouse Gases indicators, SSEG / Climate Observatory and CAIT - Climate Analysis Indicator Tools, from World Resources Institute, and energy Date, the National Energy Balance and data from the International Energy Agency (IEA). In addition, her researches include the Ten-Year Energy Plans (PDE), the National Energy Plan and the INDC, all documents published by the Brazilian government, which indicate ways for better planning and better energy use in the country and for the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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Brazil

Mariana Delgado Barbieri marianabarb@yahoo.comPhD candidate | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

I’m a member of the Climate Change researcher group in China and Brazil. Actually I’m inte-rested in understanding the impacts of climate change and how civil society can act. Global and local governance is very important for mitigate and act on current transformation. My interest in climate change is recent and I think that the São Paulo Advanced Science on CLimate Change is a great opportunity to deepen my knowledge.

Brazil

Mário Sérgio Muniz Tagliari mario.tagliari@posgrad.ufsc.brPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

My past experienced begun in 2012 when I entered in the Ethobotany Lab, at Federal Universi-ty of Santa Catarina - UFSC. It was my first experiences with ecology, field ecology and scientific topics. Later, during my Master, I had the opportunity to study in France, where I worked for the first time with Ecological Models and Climate Scenarios with Baobabs in Madagascar (field-trip may 2015). I had an important R background during my Master. After a short period work in pri-vate school (2015-2016) I entered in the Doctoral Post-Graduate Program at UFSC, right now I am working both with Climate Change Scenarios but also with Cultural Landscape Approach, with a focus in statistiscal modelling improvement.

Brazil

Maristela Calvente Morais maristelacm@usp.brPhD candidate | Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura da Universidade de São Paulo (CENA/USP)

I graduated in Biology at University Federal of Alfenas, in Minas Gerais State (UNIFAL) in 2012, Brazil and during that period I studied and worked with landscape ecology in the Atlantic Forest, supervised by Erica Hasui; MSc in Science at University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP) supervised by Brigitte Josefine Feigl in 2016, Brazil. During the master degree my research was about soil carbon and nitrogen stocks, soil microbial biomass and soil microbial community responses to sugarcane straw removal, at the Laboratory of Environmen-tal Biogeochemistry. At the moment, I am PhD student at CENA/USP, supervised by Luiz Antonio Martinelli, and our research interest in on understanding the functional diversity of genes of soil microbial communities associated to nitrogen cycling and how these responses to pasture-sugar-cane conversion and pasture intensification, considering that soil microbes process are respon-sible by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from soil. My major interests are nitrogen cycle, microbial diversity loss, climate change, land use change and bio-informatics.

Nigeria

Mary Omolara Oloyede mary.oloyede@stu.cu.edu.ngPhD candidate | Covenant University

I am Mary Oloyede, an Environmental Chemistry PhD student of Covenant University,Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. I obtained my first degree in Pure and Applied Chemistry from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria and second degree in Industrial Chemis-try from Covenant University, Nigeria.. I am passionate about understanding climate change and its associated anthropogenic impacts. I am currently carrying out my PhD thesis on the topic’ Climate Change and Tropical Coastal Vulnerability in the Gulf of Guinea’

Venezuela

Meimalin Caribay Moreno Villalobos meimalinmoreno@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC)I am biologist, my undergraduate formation was in stream ecology, my first interests were ap-plications of stream ecology and land use conflicts. I started working on private sector by coor-dinating environmental impact assessments, currently I am working and studying on a govern-mental research institute (Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research - IVIC). I also teach, and learn, at the Venezuelan Indigenous University. At IVIC, I belong to the Laboratory of Ecosystems Ecology and Global Change, where I collaborate on different projects related to the impacts of climate change on venezuelan rivers, forests and crops. An aim of our team is to contribute with community based adaptation plans from a transdisciplinary and intercultural perspective.

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Colombia

Melissa Ruiz Vásquez melissa.ruiz1@udea.edu.coMaster student | Environmental School, Faculty of Engineering, University of Antioquia

Since my undergraduate degree I have been interested in research in atmospheric sciences and climate change. I conducted research on modeling greenhouse gas generation in an important reservoir in Colombia. I had the opportunity to attend an academic exchanger at the University of Sao Paulo during which I did a small analysis with Professor Tércio Ambrizzi on the correlation between PDO and precipitation in Colombia. I am currently a master student at the University of Antioquia, I am analyzing the connection between the monsoons of North America and South America through the cross-equatorial flow. I have skills in the management of reanalysis databa-ses, and in R and Matlab programming languages and I am fluent in both English and Portuguese languages at an intermediate level.

Brazil

Michelle Simões Reboita reboita@gmail.comOther: researcher | Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)Since I finished my PhD, in 2008, I have been working with numerical climate modeling. The Regional Climate Model (RegCM) from ICTP is the model that I use in my researches. My main focus is the South America Monsoon and the cyclones (extratropical and subtropical) over Sou-thwestern South Atlantic Ocean. Some works under development are: - simulation of the extra-tropical cyclones over the Southwestern South Atlantic Ocean in the future climate; - simulation of latent and sensible heat fluxes over the Southwestern South Atlantic Ocean; - simulation of the South American Monsoon (SAM) and the study of the SAM lifecycle and the wet and dry spells over South America; - sensitivity experiments to evaluate the different parameterization schemes of RegCM4; - study of the future climate over South America by using downscaling; - evaluation of the present and future diurnal cycle of precipitation by using RegCM4 and - wind energy simula-ted in the future climate by RegCM4. Besides, I study the synoptic features of the cold fronts and extratropical and subtropical cyclones over South America and Southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

Brazil

Minella Alves Martins minella.martins@inpe.brPhD candidate | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

I am a proactive person who consider the research the best work to do. I am consistently gro-wing and taking the time to continue learning. I also like to teach as a way to spread my knowled-ge and learn more and more. Since the college I am involved with research. At first in researches about water requirements for plants and later modelling the crop development in response to climate variables. Currently, I am starting as a consultant in Climate impacts on agriculture, spe-cifically considering the effects of the future climate on agriculture in order to identify vulnerable areas and subsidize adaptation and mitigation actions by decision-makers.

Egypt

Mohamed Farig Saad Ragab freegragb@gmail.comPhD candidate | Water Management Research Institute

Agronomist of the Water Management Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Egypt. Currently, I lead the El-Karda Experimental Station for Water Requirements in Kafr El Shei-kh. I have a Master degree from Egypt as well as currently registered for PhD in Tanta University, both in the field of Irrigation Water Management. During my work, I participate in many imple-mentation as well as research projects mainly in the field of water management. Furthermore, I was a member of international projects with ICARDA and IWMI funded by the Australian go-vernment. I was also; key member of the Egypt Chapter within international Project from Japan with Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia and Japan titled “Designing Local Frameworks for Integrated Water Resources Management”.

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Qatar

Mohammed Ibrahim A S AL-Marzooqi qa85@hotmail.comMaster student | Civil Aviation AuthorityI want to develop my skills and scientific process and get more experience in the field of work to ensure a prosperous future for me and my country.

Brazil

Mônica de Andrade mmonicandrade@gmail.comOther: Full Professor | Universidade de Franca (UNIFRAN)

I have participated in 2013 on the short Term Course in Climate Change and Health: Impact, Adapt. Policies. (80 hours), Heidelberg, HEIDELBERG, Heidelberg, Germany. I have participated in 2011 of the Short Term Course in Summer Institute Climate Change and Public Health. (80hours), in Columbia University, COLUMBIA, New York, United States with support of Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. I have published book chapters and papers on climate change and health: CASAS, A. F. ; SANTOS, G. M. D. ; CHIOCHETI, N. B. ; Andrade, M. . Effects of temperature variation on the human cardiovascular system: a systematic review. In: Filho, W-L; Azeiteiro, U; Alves, F. (Org.). Climate Change and Health: Improving Resilience and Reducing Risks. 1ed.London, New York: Springer International Publishing, 2016, v. , p. 73-87. KATERINE, K. ; LEMES, M. M. D. ; Andrade, M. ; QUEIROZ, S. J. . Os desastres naturais e seus impactos à saúde pública brasileira. Estudos (UCGO. Impresso), v. 41, p. 307-313, 2014. ALVES, M. ; NOVAES, P. ; Morraye, Monica de An-drade ; REINACH, P. S. ; ROCHA, E. M. . Is dry eye an environmental disease?. Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia (Impresso), v. 77, p. 193, 2014.

Brazil

Nádia Costa Pontes nadia.pontes@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto de Energia e Ambiente da Universidade de São Paulo (IEE/USP)

I am a science journalist with international experience in reporting on environment and cli-mate change. Due to my deep interest in this topic, I decided to become a researcher and started my master in 2016, focused on environment science. My special interest is in human dimension of climate change and how it impacts the most vulnerable in Brazil.

Brazil

Nathália Cristina Costa do Nascimento nathalia.nascimento@inpe.brPhD candidate | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

I am Ph.D. student at the National Institute for Space Research. My expertise is to analyze and modeling changes in the land use and its implications on ecosystem services. Currently, I have adopted quantitative and qualitative methods to simulate scenarios of land use change based on the logic of multi-agent systems and simulated its consequences on climate, greenhouse gas emis-sions and biodiversity loss.

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Brazil

Nathália Duarte Braz Vieira nathaliadbv.ufop@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

I graduated in Environmental Engineering at the Mining School of Ouro Preto/UFOP, Brazil, where I started my experience as a researcher, being fellow of the Tutorial Education Program - PET AMBIENTAL/ UFOP from January 2010 to April 2013, working with research in solid was-te, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental education. In 2014, I started my Master’s degree in Energy Engineering at Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), in the energy, society and environ-ment area, developing a methodology for estimating the emissions avoided by energy efficiency programs, through the decomposition of energy savings in the load curve, correlated with the system’s emission factor observed for the different load level period. In this opportunity, I joi-ned the Center of Excellence in Energy Efficiency – EXCEN, where I developed studies on ener-gy efficiency field and renewable energy, especially biogas and solar. Currently, I am pursuing a doctorate’s degree in Energy Systems Planning at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where my thesis subject is the development of a modeling for decarbonization of Brazilian electric matrix, evaluating the challenges, technical potential and policy implications. As characteristics, I consi-der myself a communicative and curious person, always willing to learn new subjects.

Nigeria

Otamere Uyioghosa Hilton isikaaugustine@gmail.comNigeria Hydrological Survey, Federal Ministry of Water Resources

Otamere Uyioghosa Hilton is a 29 Year Old Meteorologist and Hydrologist. He holds a Diplo-ma in Meteorology from the Nigerian Institute for Scientific Research and a Bachelors Degree in Hydrology from the National Water Research Institute, He is currently the Principal Hydrogeology Surveyor – NHSA.

Brazil

Paola de Figueiredo Bongiovani paola.f.bongiovani@gmail.comMaster student | Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz da Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/

USP)

I am an agronomist recently accepted in the Master’s Program at University of São Paulo, where I will focus my research in Climate Change and Mitigation. I graduated with a double degree from Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture de Lille (France) and the same university of today. Since my first year in university, I have worked with different subjects, as Weeds Control, Biochemistry and Phy-siology Post-Harvest of fruits and vegetables, Soil Fertilization and Agrometeorology. The latter is the one that motivated me to pursue an academic career and to become a researcher to help improving agriculture, in general, and socioeconomic and environmental issues.

Brazil

Paola Gimenes Bueno paola.gbueno@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)

I am currently a Master’s degree student in Meteorology at IAG-USP, and I have always been very interested in studies that involve the climate and especially those that approach climate change. Nowadays I am studying the Amazonian climate and have great interest in knowing more about how the climatic changes could affect the Amazonian forest. With my background acquired in my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at USP, I got a great knowledge of many areas of meteorology, as well as having learned to program in different computing languages and to mani-pulate and analyze meteorological data. My great interest in the area make me constantly search for new materials, read more articles and academic publications, motivating me more and more to continue doing meteorological research.

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Guatemala

Paris Francisco Rivera Ramos paris.rivera@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Knowledge of climatic, meteorological and hydrological aspects, management of statistical pa-ckages such as rclimdex and CPT. Realization of climate comparisons, climatic and meteorological forecasts. I have experience in the interpretation of weather and climate models. In my current research I approach intra-seasonal variability and I am specifically trying to find the relationship between the Madem Julian Oscillation and precipitation. I have data from the OMJ Index and pre-cipitation data from several local stations, but I require other tools for analysis, so the course in Brazil can help me to find another analysis apart of categorizing index values. Currently, they are the Coordinator of the Water Resources Commission of the College of Engineers of Guatemala. This commission try to include the participation of the College of Engineers in the prose’s of Imple-menting a Water Law in Guatemala, in addition to seeking training in water issues for Engineers. At the moment I am also professors in the Master of energy and environment of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala. Delivering the Course of techniques of environmental assessment and climate change.

Brazil

Paula Galbiatti Silveira paulagalbiatti@hotmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

I am Brazilian, jurist by formation and environmentalist by heart. I choose the course of Law because of the possibility of promoting changes and I specialized and research Environmental Law, because of my passion about the environment and because I believe we need to be the change we want to see in the world. Therefore, I began to participate of a researching group at the Fede-ral University of Mato Grosso, studying Law and Climate Change at “Jus-Clima” research group. Later, I had the opportunity to study and research more at Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the Master course and currently at the Doctorate course, as well as in the research groups I participate “Grupo de Pesquisas em Direito Ambiental e Ecologia Política na Sociedade de Risco” and “Observatório de Justiça Ecológica”. Since graduation, I research Law and Technology and En-vironmental Law. My Master dissertation entitled “The adoption of the Best Available Technology in the Brazilian environmental licensing in the context of the Environmental State”. About the sub-ject, I started researching about the hydropower plants in the Amazon, especially its social and environmental damages. Currently at my Doctorate research, I focus on climate change, renewa-ble energy law compared and environmental license and impact assessments on renewables. My research focuses on environment about those themes and participated in many courses in Brazil and abroad. I obtained experience volunteering and working as a legal intern at Public Attourney and Federal Prosecutor and also at the Brazilian non-profit organization, Law for a Green Planet Institute and on the research groups.

Brazil

Pieter de Jong pieterj@ufba.brPhD candidate | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)

I am a doctoral candidate in the Postgraduate Program of Industrial Engineering at the Polyte-chnic School of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). My research is on renewable energy fo-recasting, integration, and storage in the Northeast of Brazil, and I am currently investigating the impact of climate change on wind, solar and hydroelectric resources in the region. In 2015 I completed my “Sanduíche” Doctoral Internship researching at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Dr Roger Dargaville, a specialist in the area of renewable energy and climate change. While at the University of Melbourne, I also attended lectures of various subjects in the Masters of Energy Systems program (as an auditor/ observer) including: Climate Change Mitiga-tion (ENST90033) and Climate Modelling and Climate Change (ERTH90026). In 2014, I won the Vale-CAPES Award for Science and Sustainability for my Master’s dissertation in the category “re-duction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions” I completed my Masters of Industrial Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia – UFBA in 2013 and the title of my dissertation was “Economic, te-chnical and environmental analysis of renewable and non-renewable electricity generation tech-nologies in Brazil”. I have published 4 articles (as lead author) in international journals, including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy, and Applied Energy and have presented 7 pa-pers in conferences and congresses. I also have a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with honours from Monash University (Australia) and a Bachelor of Letters from the University of Melbourne.

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Ghana

Portia Adade Williams wllpor003@myuct.ac.zaPhD candidate | University of Cape Town (UCT)

Portia Adade Williams is an early career research scientist with the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana for the past four years. Williams is currently a PhD candidate with Climate Systems Analysis Group of the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department, University of Cape Town - South Africa. She was a fellow of the Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) Programme for Sub Saharan Africa (January 2016 – December 2016) and has also worked as a divisional manager with the Ghana Oil Palm Development Company Limited. Williams holds MSc. Business Administration from the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden) and BSc. (Hons) Agricultural Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Her research interests focus on climate impact and adaptation in agricultural systems as well as socio economic and innovation studies. Williams’s current research looks at “Assessment of climate change risk and adaptation in relation to socio-ecological systems for hor-ticultural development in Ghana”. Her goal for São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Climate Change is to enhance her skills and broaden her network for collaborative research into emerging issues related to climate variability and change in Africa.

Brazil

Rachel Scrivani da Silva rachel.silva@feagri.unicamp.brPhD candidate | Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Technologist in Agribusiness, Master and PhD candidate in Agricultural Engineering. I have been in the area of scientific research since 2011. I have developed and is in evolution research that involves the issue of climate change related to agriculture and water resources. I have the skills to work with remote sensing, data mining, agrometeorology and management skills.

Portugal

Rafael Gonçalves Santos rafaelgoncalves@campus.ul.ptPhD candidate | Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA)

I have graduated in Geography at the Federal University of Alfenas in Brazil (2010), during my degree I discovered my enthusiasm for elements of climate and urban planning. The master’s thesis in Geoscience at the Paulista State University – UNESP (2013), it provided me a valuable op-portunity to investigate and understand urban planning by means of geotechnologies. The chance to pursue these knowledge in climate and urban planning more detailed is what motivated me to take on a PhD in Geography at the IGOT-ULisboa since 2015 and currently I’m working on Climate and Urban Planning in the Megacity of São Paulo, Brazil.

Brazil

Rafael Rodrigues da Silva rodriguesrs19@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

I am graduated in Agronomy for the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (2009), MSc in Geodetic Sciences and Geoinformation Technologies for the Federal University of Pernambuco (2011) and PhD student in Nuclear and Energy Technologies at the Federal University of Pernam-buco. I have experience in Agronomy, with emphasis on GIS, Agricultural Zoning and biogeoche-mical cycles.

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Brazil

Raquel Henriques Melo Santos raquel.santos@inpe.brPhD candidate | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

I am currently a Ph.D Candidate within the Earth System Science department at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). In my thesis I discuss the water crisis faced by the city of São Paulo and the causes for the increasing vulnerability of water supplies due to extreme climate events. I investigate the possible impacts in areas of watershed protection and restoration within the metropolitan region of São Paulo. I attempt to demonstrate that the preservation of its water sources, in order to meet economy’s demands and its continuous growth, is attained at the cost of its socioeconomic development. Moreover, I examine the political and structural strategies em-ployed by the state government to deal with the problem of water shortage.

Brazil

Rayner Monteiro dos Santos raynermonteiro89@gmail.comMaster student | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

I am graduated from the State University of Amazonas in Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, and I am currently studying the second year of my master’s degree at the National Research Institute of the Amazon – INPA/ CLIAMB. My research is focused on the analysis of the elemental composition of soil dust tracing materials (Al, Si, Ti and Fe), as well as black carbon that are transported from North Africa to the Amazon by the trade winds during the wet season , Verifying their occurrences and intensity of events through soil measurements in the central region of the Amazon Basin. Re-cently, a survey conducted by Yu et al (2015), based on a multi-year analysis using remote sensing data from LiDAR images, investigated the deposition of dust on the Amazon and estimated that ap-proximately 28 Tga-1 was deposited between the months From December to May. However, since then a work of validation of this data has not been performed from a multi-year data analysis using surface data. Therefore, with this research, we expected to obtain a quantification of the elements proposed in a 10-year data series (2008-2017) in the period of December-May, using a variety of instruments that measured air composition at three sites not affected by pollution Anthropic, and with this to carry out the validation of the research cited.

Costa Rica

Rodrigo Alberto Castillo Rodríguez rodrigo.castillorodriguez@ucr.ac.crOther: Invited Professor and Early Career Researcher | University of Costa Rica

I worked as Researcher at the Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab) of the University of Vigo (UVigo) doing my Phd Thesis, called “Global sources of moisture: Characterization and study of its variability””. During this time I published relevant articles such as: Influence of the intensification of the major oceanic moisture sources on continental precipitation (Geophysical Research Letters); The role of the ENSO cycle in the modulation of moisture transport from ma-jor oceanic moisture sources (Water Resources Research); The modulation of oceanic moisture transport by the hemispheric annular modes (Frontier in Earth Science). Nowdays, I am working as professor at the School of Physics and as early career researcher of the Center for Geophysical Research at University of Costa Rica, leadering two projects related to variability projections and climate change at global and regional scales, called: Implementation study of predictions and pro-jections of variability and climate change analysis for the continental climatic regions using the CMIP5 models. Distributions of temperature and precipitation in tropical regions: projections and evaluations using down-scaled models. As a result of these projects I have managed to send an ar-ticle to review, titled: Proyecciones de cambio climático del Sistema Ártico basado en el análisis de multi-modelos de los escenarios de emisiones de CO2 (Revista de Climatología). Finally, my lines of research are oceanic sources of moisture, lagrangian analysis, water vapor transport, synoptic meteorology and climate change. I also have expertise using GNU/Linux, HPC systems, C/C++ and Fortran programing languages, Matlab and IDL software and MM5, WRF and Flexpart models.

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Brazil

Rodrigo da Costa Portilho Ramos rcpramos@yahoo.com.brPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto de Geosciências da Universidade de São Paulo (IGc/USP)My main field of expertise is paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Quaternary. I am a specialist in planktonic foraminifera, but I also work with transfer function (Modern Analog Techni-que - MAT), stable isotopes, trace metal, XRF and organic geochemistry (TOC%, C/N ratio and δ13C organic matter) to reconstruct the past variability in sea surface temperature, salinity, productivity as well as ocean circulation and ocean-atmospheric interaction (i.e. ITCZ position, precipitation re-gime and continental run-off). ]

During my master thesis at at Department of Environ-mental Geochemistry of University Federal Fluminense (UFF) - Brazil, I worked with planktonic fo-raminifera assemblage and δ18O for biostra-tigraphy and paleoceanography interpretation of cores JPC-17 and JPC-95 from southwestern Atlan-tic Ocean offered by Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). For my PhD in Environmental Geochemistry I analyzed the total organic carbon (%TOC), C/N ratio and δ13C of organic matter as well as planktonic foram-inifera assemblage, δ18O and Mg/Ca from their shells to reconstruct the sea surface temperature, salinity and productivity over this period of time. During my PhD I had the opportunity to conduct my research at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) at the Uni-versity of Bergen – Norway under supervision of Dr. Trond Dokkens and at the Center for Marine En-vironmental Science – MARUM at the University of Bremen – Germany under the supervision of Dr. Stefan Mulitza. At the BCCR, I developed my skills regarding the cleaning process of the foraminifera shells for Mg/Ca measurements following the protocol of Baker et al. (2003). I had the opportunity to use the Thermo Finnigan IRIS inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP--OES) for these analyses. In addition to that, I also cleaned planktonic foraminifera shells for δ18O measurements. At MARUM, I conducted the selection of benthic foraminifera (Cibicides spp.) for Mg/Ca analyses of a cold seeps core from the Brazilian margin. The analyses were carried out by using the ICP-MS with Flow Through device under supervision of Jeroen Groeneveld.

Between 2010 and 2012, I worked as a post doc at the Department of Environmental Geochemistry of the University Federal Fluminense (UFF) in a project called “Modern and past variability in productivity in Cabo Frio upwelling system: Balance of production X degradation of organic matter”. During this pe-riod of time I worked with planktonic foraminifera assemblage and Oxygen and Carbon stable isotopes. Simultaneously, I also worked in a multidisciplinary project called “Paleoenvironmental reconstruc-tion of the coastal and offshore Neogene of Rio de Janeiro based on microfóssil” at the Marine Geologi-cal and Ge-ophysical Department from Geoscience Institute of University Federal Fluminense (UFF). The objective of this project was to generate data of δ18O, planktonic foraminifera, diatoms, dinofla-gellate and pollen and spores. I was the coordinator and supervisor of planktonic foraminifera sector. During my last post doc position, I worked at the Center of Marine Environmental Science (MARUM) in Bremen, where I completed a two-year post doc in December 2014. I worked in a project called “Response of Amazon sedimentation to deforestation, land use and climate variability” (AMADEUS) coordinated by Dr. Stefan Mulitza. At this time in MARUM, I conducted research in marine cores from northeastern Brazilian margin (Western Tropical Atlantic Ocean) using planktonic foraminife-ra, transfer function (MAT) based on this organism, stable isotopes in different species of planktonic foraminifera and XRF.

Brazil

Rosa Carolina Zamora Aguirre rosa.aguirre@inpe.brPhD candidate | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

My academic formation has been developed in meteorology and weather areas, principally with an interesting in environmental topic since an interdisciplinary approach. During seven years I was dedicated to work in universities from Chile teaching courses related to weather, climatic change and extremes events, in according with academic program of each university. The above, supported to me to incorporate in my work different point of view (like geographic, anthropology and history) and deep my knowledge in meteorology and weather. And also, this experience was helpful to me for learn to provide and communicate the knowledge. For your reference, teaching was done in Universidad de Chile, Universidad Humanismo Cristiano, Universidad de Valparaíso. Currently, I am student of PHD in science of earth system in INPE. Particularly, my investigation looking to improve the understanding of processes that are related with desertification. The way to board my work is principally related to weather, but with an important components related to agronomy, land and changes in use and cover of this last. Also, in my investigation is important knowledge in tools for analysis of data observed and numeric modeling (climatic and agro-clima-tic). During development of my career has been highlight abilities such us perseverance in work and effort for learn, readiness and interest for teamwork including persons of different areas. Also, I have a strong interesting for communication of science to others knowledge areas and to society.”

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Jamaica

Roxann Kato-neil Brown roxann.stennett02@uwimona.edu.jmPhD candidate | The University of the West Indies (UWI)

Roxann Stennett-Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of Physics at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus. Roxann currently serves her department at the University of the West Indies in the capacity of Assistant Lecturer. Her previous research experience focused on the impact of climate on health, specifically its association with dengue fever. She also investiga-ted future climate projection and its associated impacts on dengue fever. Currently her research involves statistical downscaling of mean and extremes in temperature and rainfall for 44 stations in the Caribbean. This is a notable achievement, as currently such an extensive study using a sta-tistical model has not been done for the Caribbean. This will expand on the climate modeling ou-tput database for the Caribbean. Roxann over time has garnered skills in using programs such as: - Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM) which is a decision support tool for assessing local climate change impacts using a robust statistical downscaling technique; - RClimDex which are software packages used for data homogenization (RHtestsV4) and indices calculation; -The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) which is a climate visualization tool. Roxann has presented interna-tionally at the Anton de Kom University in Suriname. She represented the University of the West Indies Department of Physics at a poster presentation hosted by the Royal Society Commonwealth Science conference in Bangalore India where she was the recipient of best poster for her category. She also had the opportunity to present at the Caribbean Academy of Science Biennial conference in Antigua.

Nepal

Sabrina Regmi saziars@yahoo.comPhD candidate | University of Basel

I am a Gender and Development Scholar with extensive academic and research experience in gender and intersecting development issues such as climate change adaptation/mitigation, di-saster risk management, water resource management, food security, public health, micro-credit lending, and micro-enterprise development. I hold field experience mainly in the Asia Pacific re-gion. Currently, I am a PhD student at University of Basel. My current research looks at the finan-cial ethnography of Nepalese women in adaptation to agricultural production and food security in changing rural households of Nepal affected by climate change impacts and disasters. I have conducted research on the social dimensions of climate change adaptation and mitigation with focus on gendered differences in the rural and industrial context of Nepal and Japan under the International Fellowship program of Japan Association of University Women (JAUW), Japan. I have also conducted an internship research on social dimensions of climate change with special focus on Japanese women’s role in climate change mitigation (reduction of GHG emissions) at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. An excerpt of my research was published in Women and Environments International Journal, University of York and was later republished in a college level textbook titled, “Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Wo-men,” by McGraw Hill, Canada. Similarly, I have assisted a Climate Change and DRM Expert of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Nepal as a Researcher by performing field research, data col-lection, analysis and report writing on the gender dimension of climate change, disaster, agricul-ture, and food security in rural Nepal. Moreover, I have conducted research on gender and health adaptation measures to climate change in the Pacific with a focus on Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was a pilot project to use qualitative method in understanding the sociology of gender, health and climate change linkage in the Pacific and particularly in PNG. An excerpt of the research study was published in a peer-reviewed book named, “Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation,” by Sprin-ger: Berlin. Furthermore, recently (2015-2016) I have conducted a Climate Change and Vulnera-bility Assessment (CCVA) for UNDP Solomon Islands Project, exploring the gendered dimension of climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the water sector in 12 communities of the Solomon Islands. I have also published extensively on gender and environment/ climate change topics in peer-reviewed journals, magazines and books.

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Pakistan

Salman Tariq salmantariq_pu@yahoo.comPhD candidate | University of the Punjab (PU)

Mr. Salman Tariq did his B.S and M.Phil. with distinction from the Department of Space Science, University of the Punjab in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Presently he is doing Ph.D from the same university. He joined Department of Space Science as Research Scholar in December 2010 and currently serving as a Lecturer in the department since June 2013. His major research interests are in the fields of climate change, atmospheric science, remote sensing and GIS. Sixteen of his research papers have been published in foreign peer-reviewed impact factor journals during the last three years. In 2016, World Climate research program (WCRP) and WMO selected him as an Expert Scientist to present his research paper at CLIVAR Open Science Conference in Qingdao, China, September 19-23, 2016. He is also a reviewer of various standard foreign impact factor journals such as International Journal of Climatology, Remote Sensing Letters and Atmospheric Pollution Research.

Brazil

Sara de Jesus Duarte saraduarteufrb@gmail.comPhD candidate | Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ/USP)At graduation I started my scientific career working with soil physics and genetic improve-ment. I worked with undergraduate research for 4.5 years at UFRB and EMBRAPA. At the end of the course, I started my master’s degree at ESALQ-USP where I worked with spatial variabili-ty of soil physical properties and its interference with plant development. In the doctorate I am working with the application of differing granulometry of biochar in the soil and its influence in the alterations of the physical properties of the soil and the emission of greenhouse gases.

Chile

Sarah Nunes Jansen sjansen1@uc.clPhD candidate | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)

I am a Brazilian economist with a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics from the Ponti-ficia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile) with a multidisciplinary background in research and over five years of expertise in economic affairs and sustainable development. Currently, I am enrolled in a Doctoral Program from the PUC-Chile and I am committed with research related to climate change, rural development and natural resources. In my previous working experience, I have researched topics in climate change and agricultural issues. I had the opportunity to partici-pate in substantive research and discussions. The Thesis for my Master’s Degree was part of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Project, which aimed to develop a strategy to address variability and climate change in the Maipo Basin, Chile. My thesis was focused on in-dex insurance to deal with climate change in the Agricultural sector. I evaluated this adaptation measure from an economic point of view. When I worked at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) I was in charge of developing a research in Bioeconomy and adaptation measures, as well as natural resources governance. These previous experiences allo-wed me to strengthen my ability in research and to gain skills working in academia and public and private sectors, including multidisciplinary researches addressing topics related to climate change and economic development. Currently, I am working on the publication of the thesis of my Master’s Degree, and as a Doctoral student, I am working on my seminar proposal, in order to de-velop my thesis on Bioeconomy as a national strategy to deal with rural development in a climate change context.

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Argentina

Sebastián Cesar Diez sebastian_diez@hotmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Córdoba

My name is Sebastián Diez and I am from Córdoba-Argentina. I am Chemical Engineer, with a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Engineering. I am also teaching undergraduate students (since 2009) and graduate students (since 2012). Before I start to work in science, I worked over 10 years in the automotive industry (Volkswagen) in the area of Quality Assurance as Laboratory Analyst performing different routine analysis (spectroscopy, spectro-metry, etc.). My research experience highlights a strong background in air quality and emissions modelling, spatial data analysis, adaptation/mitigation strategies, as well as communicating my work and collaborating with diverse audiences. In 2008, I started to collaborate with National Technological University. Two years after that (2010) I posit to a doctoral fellowship and I left industry. In my PhD thesis (2015), I developed and implemented different mathematical tools to support decision-making in order to predict air pollutants human health risks. For this task, I applied transport-dispersion models, regression models and artificial neural networks models. In order to validate these models I got specialized in emissions measurements and air quality sampling. As Argentina’s emissions and air quality legislation are outdated (air quality laws are from 1973 and there is not GHG regulations), to understand emission processes was very useful because It allowed me to make some policies proposals in my thesis. Since last year, I am doing a Postdoc research and the current project I am involved with deals with (i) emissions and air qua-lity legislation, (ii) emissions inventories (Criteria Air Pollutants, Black Carbon and GHG) and (iii) adaptation/mitigation strategies. The main gold is to improve knowledge about emission proces-ses in my country and to deal with its impacts.

Brazil

Sergio Alejandro Ibarra Espinosa zergioibarra@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)

I started in emissions and air pollution in 2007. Between I worked in the effects of air pollution on health trhough time series techniques. I have two ISI paper published as coauthor. Between 2008 and 2013 I worked on emissions from airports, wood burning and vehicular emissions. My focus is vehicular emissions. During my PhD, between 2013 and 2017, I developed the R package VEIN for vehicular emissions inventory.

Nigeria

Udeh Boniface Ikechukwu alfrediyamuosadebamwen@gmail.comNigeria Hydrological Survey, Federal Ministry of Water Resources

Udeh Boniface Ikechukwu is a 27 Year old graduate of Geography and Regional Planning from the University of Benin, Benin City Nigeria. He is currently the Principal Hydrology Officer - NHSA.

Argentina

Vanesa Cristina Pántano vanesapantano@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmosfera y los Oceanos, Universidad de

Buenos Aires (UBA)

My name is Vanesa Pántano and I have a postdoctoral position at the National Council of Rese-arch and Development. I am interested in statistical analysis of climate extremes and their impact over agricultural sector of the Southern South America (SESA). My postdoctoral research is rela-ted to seasonal prediction of extreme dry and wet spells including the exploration and identifica-tion of local and remote predictors for these variables in SESA. I have graduated from my PhD in 2016. In my PhD thesis I assessed the impact of climate extremes of temperature and precipitation on soil-atmosphere interaction, including the analysis of the future projections of such extremes, according to CMIP5 emission scenarios. My research is carried out at the Department of Atmos-phere and Oceanic Sciences (University of Buenos Aires).

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Brazil

Veronica Marcela Ramirez Ruiz veromrr@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Geosciências da Universidade de São Paulo (IGc/USP)

Geologist and Anthropologist from Colombia, and currently do my PhD studies at USP. In my postgraduate studies, I have developed research on changes in precipitation over the central-eas-tern area of Colombia during the last 100 thousand years. In the master degree, the main focus was on the latitudinal displacement of the ITCZ in the middle and late Holocene. I have participa-ted in several archaeological researches developed in Colombia.

Kenya

Victor Ongoma victor.ongoma@gmail.comPhD candidate | Nanjing University Of Information Science And Technology

Victor Ongoma is a Meteorologist, currently a Tutorial Fellow in the Department of Meteorology, South Eastern Kenya University, and PhD candidate at Nanjing University of Information Science and technology, China. He has interest and experience in Urban climatology and Climate change. He is currently studying extreme climate events over East Africa. He has published over 10 rese-arch articles in peer reviewed journals, in collaboration with other researchers. He is well versed with GrADS, Fortran, MATLAB, CDO, HYSPLIT, and is currently learning modelling using RegCM4.

Brazil

Victor Raul Chavez Mayta vchavezmayta@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas da Universidade de São Paulo (IAG/USP)

My name is Victor, I am from Peru. I am an Agricultural Engineer and 2 years ago a worked at Geophysical Institute of Peru in the areas of climatology and Numerical Modeling. I have a good experience in extremes events, principally over the Amazon basin.

Brazil

Vinícius de Almeida Vale vinicius.a.vale@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Vinicius is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. His research interests are Agriculture sector, International Trade, Development, Growth, Food Security and Climate Change. His main lines of research are related with Input-Output and Com-putable General Equilibrium models. Currently, he is working on his Ph.D. dissertation, which is related to Brazilian agriculture sector, international trade, food security and a CGE approach.

Brazil

Vinícius Leonardo Loureiro Morrone viloureiro@uol.com.brPhD candidate | Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo

(FEA/USP)

Lawyer and business consultant, with a background in business, law and physics, and masters in Strategy and finance, now focused on the study of the impacts of climatic and environmental changes over the economy and the business environment.

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Brazil

Walter Hugo Diaz Pinaya wpinaya@ig.com.brPostdoctoral Researcher | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)Nowadays, I am researching a relationship between fisheries and aquatic ecosystems and cli-matic and economic variability. For this, I used statistical and ecological methods and models. Also dedicated to the study of processes at the interface ocean-atmosphere and river-forest-ocean-at-mosphere to observe effects on a dynamics of ecosystems. Recombinantly, I researched how aqua-tic ecosystems and fisheries resources can be affected by climate change based on simulations of future scenarios and long-term data series. Most purpose of my study is to collaborate with the fishing and natural resources management. I have some experience with the data collect, proces-sing and analysis from semi-structured interviews applied in fishing actors’ communities. Now, I am participating in a project that seeks to improve the management of shrimp fisheries in the nor-thern coastal and northeastern regions of Brazil. My computer skills are with Matlab, Canoco for Windows, Past, Statistic, ArgGis, R and others. Also, I use Ecopath-Ecosim and Statistical Models. Univariate, multivariate and time series analyzes are some of the statistical techniques I use in my research. During the master’s and doctoral worked with fishing models seeking its relationship with climate variability in the Amazon and in southeastern Brazil. We collected our own data but I also use the database from other source, like NODC-NOAA, EOS, SOOS, PIRATA-GOOS, SINCOAST, Oceanographic Brazilian Database (BNDO), Monitoring System of the Brazilian Coast (SiMCosta) and others. For example, now our team is effecting an experiment to study the blue carbon flux in salt marsh coastal environment using eddy covariance tower.

Brazil

Wilian França Costa wilianfc@gmail.comPostdoctoral Researcher | Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (POLI/USP)

Ph. D. from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Master from Electronic Engi-neering and Computer (Control Systems) from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA and Ba-chelor in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” - Unesp FCT. Mainly acting on the following topics: Research and development Spatial Data Infrastructure and Service Oriented Architectures, use and development of GIS and geoprocessing techniques; Spatial Databases; Robotics Simulation; Algorithms; Development and research in integration and interoperability of environmental monitoring sensor networks applied to biodiversity conserva-tion and Precision Agriculture.

Mexico

Yanet Díaz Esteban yanet.diaz.esteban@gmail.comPhD candidate | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

I started my research activities working on the processing of radar signals to characterize con-vective storm echoes in a region, with the aim of carrying out a project of artificial rain enhance-ment by convective cloud seeding in western Cuba. After that, I worked on the assimilation and development of evaluation methods and tools for weather and climate numerical prediction. The most recent research experience I have had is on the field of intra-seasonal and inter-annual cli-mate variability, specifically on the detection of weather regimes and circulation patterns over Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and its relationship to seasonal precipitation over southern Mexico. Currently, I am working on the characterization of shallow cumulus clouds pre-vailing around Yucatan peninsula (Mexico), to study the factors involved on its transition to deep clouds. I intend to use the RegCM4 to simulate the regional climate of Yucatan region, and, to evaluate the ability of different parametrization options (e.g. cumulus convection, cloud micro--physics) on reproducing the climate and, more specifically, the shallow clouds dominants on that region. My main skills are in Python programming language, as well as in the handling of Linux Operating System and data processing tools, e.g. Matlab, R, Gnuplot.

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Togo

Yawovi Séna Koglo sena_koglo@yahoo.comPhD candidate | West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use

(WASCAL), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

I am KOGLO Yawovi Sena, young scientist born in 09 July 1987 in Togo. I am agronomist engi-neer (BAC +5) in agronomy and soil science in Togo with a Master in Climate change and adapted land use in Nigeria. Scientific researches either qualitative or quantitative to solve problems nota-bly development oriented with priority actions are my passion. So far, I published peer reviewed articles covering a range of domains ( climate change adaptation, mitigation and food security as well as promotion of climate smart practices) and designed and implemented scientific projects targeting crop screening for their resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses; community based cli-mate change adaptation projects with focus on climate change and food security. My scientific investigations also emphasised on sustainable land management approaches, viz: cost effective practices to enhance soil carbon, fertility subsequent to crop productivity increase while curbing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission. Recently I conducted studies related to land degradation (soil erosion by water); soil and water conservation methods. My current study focuses on forest conservation and restoration (REDD+) and climate smart actions vividly required to adapt to, mitigate deforestation and forest degradation while promoting sustainable climate smart agricul-ture systems in sub Saharan Africa. I am attached to climate change studies especially the linkage climate change - food security and climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy implications in the context of developing countries. My expertise can be articulated in the following: - Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Advocacy; - Land Use Land Cover Change In-tensity Analysis and Forest Carbon Measurements and Modelling (REDD+); - Remote Sensing and GIS with application in Agriculture and soil management; - Soil: restoration and conservation, Fer-tility, water management and carbon sequestration; - Agriculture, farming systems improvement and rural development; - Organic agriculture, agroforestry, landscape and forest restoration; Food security and community based climate change adaptation projects; - Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Actions and Policy Implications; - Crops and Ecosystems Modelling (soil erosion, carbon and crop-soil-climate interactions).

Canada

Yunuén Temoltzin Loranca yunuen.temoltzin@gmail.comMaster student | University of Regina

I am interested of explaining the environmental history of lakes to use this information as an indicator for the understanding of the human-nature interaction and its impact on climate change during the Holocene. My research is mainly focused in high mountain lakes using diatoms as the main tool to infer the past environmental conditions.

My undergraduate research work was focused on the Late Holocene palaeoenvironmental his-tory of the lake Boquete (Panama), and as a master’s degree student I’m currently doing my re-search in the limnological and environmental reconstruction of lake Siscunsí (Colombia) and its watershed. As a student member of the project: SAFER (Sensing Americas´ Fresh Water Ecosystem Risk from Climate Change) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, I´m also interested to provide the basis for the recovery of aquatic systems when a conservation strategy is needed, taking into account the three pillars of sustainability: the social, economic and environ-mental.

Venezuela

Zahylis Zambrano zahylzamz@gmail.comPhD candidate | Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecológicas (ICAE), Universidad de Los Andes (ULA)

In the past I have worked with remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) in the natural physical characterization of protected areas and watersheds, as well as in environmental education activities to promote the conservation of national parks. I am currently developing my doctorate related to the use of protected areas for mitigation and adaptation to climate change.