Researchers – Amazon Dams Network

Name: Elizabeth Anderson

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: Department of Earth & Environment, Florida International University

Email: epanders@fiu.edu

Website: http://faculty.fiu.edu/~epanders/Home.html

Bio: Elizabeth Anderson is a freshwater conservation ecologist at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL. Her research explores the ecology of tropical freshwaters of Central America, the Andean Amazon, and East Africa, and human dependence on these ecosystems. Her work has a strong conservation focus and often involves collaborations with resource managers.

Name: Mauricio E. Arias

Title: Assistant Professor

Affiliation: University of South Florida / Harvard University

Email: mearias@usf.ed

Website: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/sustsci/people/research-fellows/current-fellows/mauricio-arias; https://www.watershedsustainability.org/

Bio: Mauricio graduated with a Bachelors and Masters in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Civil/Natural Resources Engineering from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Mauricio’s main expertise and interest relates to watershed-scale interactions among climate, infrastructure development, and water ecosystems in tropical watersheds.

Name: Lucas S. Bair

Title: Economist

Affiliation: U.S. Geological Survey, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center

Email contact: lbair@usgs.gov

Bio: Lucas is an environmental and natural resource economist with expertise in adaptive management and water resources and energy economics and policy. His research includes applied benefit-cost analysis, resource valuation, and integrated assessment modeling with a focus on energy systems and large river basins such as the Colorado and Sacramento-San Joaquin.

Name: Walterlina Brasil

Title: Doctor of science in socio-ecological development

Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR). Departamento de Ciências da Educação. Observatório Educação Superior e Desenvolvimento.

Email contact: wal@unir.br

Bio: Walterlina Brasil is a researcher with a PhD in science specializing in socioecological development. She is currently completing a postdoctoral research program at the University of Florida’s Tropical Conservation and Development program with a focus on Latin American studies. Her research at UNIR focuses on higher education in the Amazon and scientific and technological development in the Brazilian Amazon.

Name: Karletta Chief

Title: Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist

Affiliation: Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Arizona

Email: kchief@email.arizona.edu

Website: www.nativeadaptation.arizona.edu

Bio: Dr. Karletta Chief (Diné from Black Mesa, AZ) is an Assistant Professor at University of Arizona focusing on hydrology and climate change impacts on indigenous communities. She received a B.S./M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, Ph.D. in Hydrology & Water Resources at UA, and post-doctorate at DRI.

Name: Sandro Sidnei Vargas de Cristo

Affiliation: Geography, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Email: sidneicristo@uft.edu.br

Bio: Sandro received his bachelors in Geography from the Universidade Federal De Santa Maria (1999), with a specialist degree in interpretation of orbital and suborbital images from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2001). He received his masters in Geography from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2002) and his PhD in Geography from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2013). He also completed a postdoc in Geography at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2017).

Name: Kurt E. Dongoske, RPA

Title: Principal Investigator and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer

Affiliation: Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise, Pueblo of Zuni

Email: kdongoske@cableone.net

Bio: Kurt Dongoske is the principal investigator for Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise and the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pueblo of Zuni. He has 39 years of experience as an archaeologist working throughout the western United States with a primary focus on Arizona and New Mexico. Mr. Dongoske served as chair for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program’s Technical Work Group between 2000–2003 and 2006–2009.

Name: Philip M. Fearnside

Title: Research professor

Affiliation: National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA)

Email: pmfearn@inpa.gov.br

Website(s): http://philip.inpa.gov.br

Bio: Philip M. Fearnside is a Research Professor at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA) in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil since 1978. PhD in Biological Sciences (University of Michigan). Publications at http://philip.inpa.gov.br. Identified as the world’s second most-cited scientist on global warming and 7^th in the area of sustainable development.

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