Research Internship Program on Understanding Climate Change and Variability in the Americas

Description

The Research Internship Program on Understanding Climate Change and Variability in the Americas is a joint innitiative developed by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) through the Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies (CPTEC). The program provides an opportunity for masters, PhD students, and young scientists to continue developing their research on global change and applications into socioeconomic sectors. Each student spends 6 (six) months developing a monitored research at CPTEC in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.

CPTEC is a Federal Government Instituition and has as the main task produce real time short and medium range forecast of weather and as well as other environmental condition (like the air quality), for Brazil and neighbor areas. CPTEC also provides climate sazonal prediction. To produce the forecast information, CPTEC uses several numerical atmospheric models for regional and global scales which run in supercomputers to process the time integration of the atmospheric state. CPTEC has also a operational division where meteorologists combine the numerical forecast, observational data and remote sensing information to provide the weather forecast on a daily basis.

Objectives

The internships are aimed at increasing research capacity on relevant global change themes of regional importance and promoting partnerships and multinational collaboration among Latin American researchers and institutions.

Tuition, support and facilities

The fellowship supports travel (round-trip airfare), travel and health insurance, visa fee, meals, miscellaneous and lodging. INPE/CPTEC facilitates training on climate models and climate data for interns to develop their research studies under the supervision of an appointed senior scientist. IAI seeks to involve interns in its research and capacity building programs to strengthen their training program and provide additional scientific capacity building.

Participants

Ana Graciela Ulke
Institution: University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
Research Title/Theme: "Modelado y previsión metereológico y de transporte y dispersión de contaminantes"
Supervisor: Dr. Saulo Freitas (CPTEC)
Period: September, 2007 to February, 2008.

Janeet Sanabria Quispe
Institution: Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia del Perú (SENAMHI), Peru.
Research Title/Theme: “The Impacts of climate change scenarios on agriculture in the Peruvian Altiplano”
Supervisor: Dr. José Marengo Orsini (CPTEC) and Dr. Jean-Paul Lhomme (Centre d´Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, France).
Period: September, 2007 to April, 2008.

Juan Fernando Salazar Villegas
Institution: National University of Colombia
Research Title/Theme: "Modelación de estados de equilibrio del sistema clima-vegetación en Suramérica tropical"
Supervisor: Dr. Iracema Cavalcanti (INPE/CPTEC)
Period: October, 2008 to April, 2009.

Katiusca Briones Estébanez
Institution: CIIFEN (Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno El Niño), Guayaquil, Ecuador
Research Title/Theme: “Determinación De Esquemas Multiparamétricos y Aplicación de Técnicas MOS para el Mejoramiento del Pronóstico Climático a Corto y Mediano Plazo en los Andes Tropicales Utilizando Downscaling Dinámico”
Supervisor: Dr. Chou Sin Chan Period: from July, 2009 to February, 2010.

Blanca Patricia Vazquez Agüero
Institution: Universidad Católica de Asunción, Paraguay
Research Title/Theme: “Cambio climatico en Paraguay asociado al calentamiento global y sus impactos”
Supervisor: Dr. José Marengo
Period: September, 2010 to March, 2011.

Diana Carolina Giraldo Mendez
Institution: Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) & Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia del Perú (SENAMHI), Peru.
Research Title/Theme: “Application of seasonal climate predictions for potato production zones in Peru and Colombia to estimate cultivation productivity.”
Supervisors: Dr. Chou Sin Chan and Dr. Angelica Giarolla
Period: August, 2011 to February, 2012.
* CIP was a co-sponsor of Diana Giraldo´s program.

Julian Rojo Hernandez
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellin, Colombia
Research Title/Theme: “Desarrollo de un sistema basado en modelos matematicos y juicio experto para el pronostico de caudales medios mensuales en Latino America”
Supervisor: Dr. Nelson J. Ferreira
Period: August, 2011 to February, 2012.

Maria Laura Cariaga
Institution: CIMA/Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Research Title/Theme: “The use of seasonal climate prediction tools for application in Buenos Aires and evaluation of pluvial trend changes”
Supervisor: Dr. Luis Gustavo de Gonçalves
Period: August, 2011 to February, 2012.

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