Teaching

EARTH SCI 100 - Planet Earth: How It Works

EARTH SCI 206 - Principles of Oceanography

EARTH SCI 203 - Environmental Geosciences

EARTH SCI 471 - Geographic Information Systems

EARTH SCI 386 - Oceanography

EARTH SCI 387 - Coastal Oceanography

EARTH SCI 273 - Health and the Environment

EARTH SCI 274 - Health Impacts of Global Environmental Changes

Research

"Hydrology and Geochemistry of the Clear Fork River, Ohio"

"Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in an unpolluted tropical forested watershed, Panama"

"Nutrient Biocomplexity in the Ohio River Watershed"

"Using GIS technology to improve geographic literacy in secondary education"

"Mapping food security and access to food in downtown Antigonish"

"Nutrient transport, water quality and primary production in the Antigonish Harbour estuary"

Students: Are you interested in research? There are opportunities for students to work in some of my projects. If you are interested, click HERE to learn more!!!

Education

  September 2002 - August 2003
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Carbon Biogeochemistry in Soil Profiles and Porewater,
Environmental Earth Sciences Laboratory,
St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
(Supported by CFCAS)

  October 1998 - March 2002
Ph.D. in Coral Reef Ecology and Nutrient Biogeochemistry,
School of Biological Sciences,
Plymouth Environmental Research Centre,
University of Plymouth,
Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
(Supported by University of Plymouth and CNPq)

  Since March 2005
M.Sc. in Geographic Information Systems
LUMA-GIS Centre for Geographic Information Systems,
Lund University,
Lund, Sweden
(Supported by Lund University and the European Union)

  January 1996 - May 1998
M.Sc. in Coastal Geology and Geochemistry,
Coastal Studies Laboratory,
Federal University of Bahia/UFBA,
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
(Supported by CAPES)

  March 1988 - December 1994
B.Sc. in Oceanography,
Geosciences Institute,
State University of Rio de Janeiro/UERJ,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PhD Dissertation (Nutrification and its effects on coral reefs from Southern Bahia, Brazil)

  Front matter (Abstracts; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables)
  Chapter 1 - Introduction
  Chapter 2 - Study Area
  Chapter 3 - Materials and Methods
  Chapter 4 - Additional Environmental Measurements
  Chapter 5 - Patterns of Nutrient Distribution
  Chapter 6 - Benthic Community Survey
  Chapter 7 - General Discussion and Conclusions
  References