Andréa D. de Almeida Castanho Ph.D.

I am an environmental physicist interested in understanding the human impacts on the coupled biosphere-atmosphere system in tropical forests. My research is focused on the calibration, validation, and application of numerical models, remote sensing, and field data to better characterize interactions between deforestation and climate in tropical forests.

I have been a scientist at Woodwell Climate for 16 years. Previously, I held postdoctoral fellowships at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I focused on understanding and characterizing the impact of extreme climatic events in Humid Tropical Forest and Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. In previous work, I developed and applied remote sensing techniques to measure atmospheric aerosol pollution over megacities such as Mexico City and São Paulo.

I​ hold a master’s and Ph.D. in environmental physics from the University of São Paulo.