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	Mr. Alberto Palombo
	Mr. Alberto Palombo has more than 15 years of experience in water resources, environment, and regional development issues, particularly in regard to information systems related to this areas; regional planning (natural resources, water, environmental management, and transportation), evaluation of development of regional impact, feasibility studies, water and wastewater modeling for distribution and supply systems; geographical information systems (GIS) integration; telemetry and remote sensing; community participation processes; implementation of large-scale information systems projects for natural resource management; multi-lateral project management for water and environment sectors. Since 1994, Mr. Palombo has been a Research Associate and Coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean Programs: Florida Center for Environmental Studies. State University System of Florida. Boca Raton, FL, USA. Mr. Palombo received an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 1987. Major: Operations Research and Information Systems.

Selected Project Involvement

• Lecturer and instructor at several Latin American training workshops and seminars on sustainable water management
• Everglades-Pantanal Initiative; CES, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, FEMA-Mato Grosso, SEMA-Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil; and South Florida Water Management District, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
• Post-Mitch Sustainable Water Supply Project, Department of Zacapa, Guatemala; CES
• Second World Water Forum - Day of the Americas Organization; Inter-American Water Resources Network 2WWF Committee; The Hague, Netherlands
• Pao-Cachinche Reservoir Restoration and Basin Management, HidroCentro, C.A., Guacara, Venezuela; CES
• Institutional Strengthening of the Secretariat of Water Resources of Ceará State, Brazil; PROGERIRH/IICA/CES
• Florida Training and Internship Program for Technical Managers of Hidrocapital, C.A., Caracas, Venezuela; CES
• Feasibility Study and Installation of Desalination Plant for the Island Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil; PROAGUA/IICA/CES
  

Contact Information

7922 La Mirada Drive
Boca Raton, Florida 33433, USA
Telephone: 1.561.361.6847

Telefax: 1.561.361.6897

E-mail: apalombo@ces.fau.edu

	Dr. Pierre Girard
	Dr. Pierre Girard is a Visiting Professor at the Bioscience Institute of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil, where he teaches Masters students and performs research. He received a Ph.D. in Isotopic Hydrology from Quebec Univervity at Montreal, 1994. He is involved in the SHIFT (Studies of Human Impacts on Forest and Floodplains in the Tropics) program since 1997. He performs research in the Pantanal Ecology Project, a subcomponent of SHIFT, where he is involved with the hydrology and hydrochemistry of the flood pulse in the Brazilian Pantanal. Dr. Girard recently integrated the LBA (Large Biosphere Atmosphere experiment in Amazonia) research team in Mato Grosso. Dr. Girard also also is consulting for the Mato Grosso State on topics related to water management. He is involved with a GEF project in the city of Cuiabá (Mato Grosso’s capital) about the impact of the city on local water resources.

Selected Publications

• Da Silva , C. J. & P. Girard (submitted) New Challenges in the management of Brazilian Pantanal and catchment area, Wetlands.
• Silva, C. J., P. Girard, D. M. M. Oliveira, M. S. A. Abdo, & M. Figuereido (submitted) The use of RADARSAT multi-temporal images to deleniate flood areas in the Brazilian Pantanal, Revue d’Hydrobiologie Tropicale.
• Girard, P & C. Hillaire-Marcel (1997) Determining the source of nitrate pollution in the Niger discontinuous aquifers with the aid of the natural 14N/15N ratios. Journal of Hydrology, 199, 239-251.
• Girard, P., C. Hillaire-Marcel & M.S. Oga (1997) Determining the recharge mode of Sahelian aquifers with the aid of water isotopes, Journal of Hydrology, 197, 189-202.
• Girard, P. & M. T. C. Pinto (in press) Hydrodynamic and hydrochemical behavior of the water table in the cuiabá river flooded riparian forest, brazilian pantanal, Verh. Internat. Verein Limnol.
• Girard, P. & C.N. da Cunha (1999) Relationship between surface and groundwater during ruring the flood in the Brazilian Pantanal, Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 6, 33 –40.
• Moreira-Nordemann, L. M., P. Girard & N. R. Poppi (1997) Química da precipitação atmosférica na região do cerrado. Rev. Brasil. de Geofis., 15, (1), 35-44.
• Pinto, A. A., C.J. da Silva, P. Girard, M.D. de Souza & F. Nogueira (1999) The flood pulse and the limnology of the Sinhá Mariana baía in the Mato Grosso Pantanal, Brazil. Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 6, 19-26.
• Pinto-Silva, V. & P. Girard (2001) Estimated fluxes of CO2 between brazilian pantanal shallow lakes and the atmosphere Verh. Internat. Verein Limnol., 27, n. 3 , 1451 –1453.
• Ribeiro, G.L.S, C.N. da Cunha & P. Girard (1999) The water table and the flooding of na intermittent river of the Pantanal Landi landscape unit. Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental, 6, 27-32.

Contact Information

Projeto Ecologia do Gran Pantanal
Instituto de Biociências
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
78060-900 – Cuiabá – MT, Brazil
Telephone: 55.65.615.8877 and 55.65.661.1280
Fax: 55.65.615.8877 and 55.65.661.1280
e-mail: pgirard@terra.com.br